mood
Let an agent handle grammatical mood by language, form and usage for learners, writers and language technology, and separate emotional mood.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Form Which mood.
Identify
Verb form.
Identify
Mood identification.
- Which mood does this verb form express? definition
- How is it formed in this language? provenance
Versus tense
Distinction.
Versus tense
Mood versus tense.
- Is the question about mood or tense? boundary
- How do they combine? definition
Usage When to use.
Subjunctive
Triggers.
Subjunctive
Subjunctive usage.
- Which expressions trigger the subjunctive in this language? provenance
- Is it optional in some contexts? boundary
Politeness
Softening.
Politeness
Polite forms.
- How do conditional or subjunctive forms soften requests? definition
- Which examples help? action
Languages Comparison.
Systems
Mood systems.
Systems
Mood systems.
- How many moods does this language distinguish? provenance
- Which grammar describes them? provenance
Translation
Rendering.
Translation
Translation.
- How should a subjunctive be translated into a language without one? action
- What nuance may be lost? boundary
Senses Disambiguation.
Emotion
Emotional mood.
Emotion
Emotional sense.
- Is emotional mood meant instead? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Logic
Syllogistic mood.
Logic
Logic sense.
- Is the mood of a syllogism in logic meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Cross-cutting context
- Entry kind
- noun.relation
- Plane
- XCT
- Domain
- XCT.REL
- Facets: substance
- abstract
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- mode, modality, indicative mood, indicative, declarative mood, declarative, common mood, fact mood, subjunctive mood, subjunctive, optative mood, optative
What it is Filled
In grammar, the category of verb forms that expresses how the speaker regards the action or state, such as the indicative (statements), imperative (commands), subjunctive (hypothetical or wished) and conditional moods, along with broader modality.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent handle grammatical mood by language, form and usage for learners, writers and language technology, and separate emotional mood.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Speaker attitude toward the action
- Marked on verbs
- Varies by language
- Linked to modality
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Confuse mood with tense or with a speaker's emotional state.
- Apply the mood rules of one language to another as if they were universal.
- Translate a command as a request, or a hypothesis as a fact, without noting it.
Only with a human decision
- Choosing the mood in translations of legal or contractual text.
May
- Annotate, analyze and translate grammatical mood in text.
- Explain how a language marks mood, with examples from its standard grammars.
Moral aspects Filled
- Mood carries the difference between a fact, a wish and an order; mistranslation can change obligations.
Who is affected
- Speakers and learners of the language
- Readers of translations
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns it; it belongs to the language and its speakers.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-13818991-n - registry parent class
related
- grammatical category - category
- modality - semantics
- inflection - form
- mood (emotion) - another sense
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.mood
- Open English WordNet: oewn-13823636-n
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane XCT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Indicative, imperative, subjunctive
- Modal verbs express related modality
- Emotional mood is a different sense
- Verb forms in text and speech.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- identify mood in verb forms
- explain when to use the subjunctive
- compare mood systems across languages
- separate emotional mood
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Confusing tense and mood
- Overgeneralising rules across languages
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Universal Dependencies feature Mood
Context of use required Filled
- Expressing statements, commands, wishes and possibilities.
- indicative mood
- imperative mood
- subjunctive mood
- conditional mood
- optative and other moods
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-13823636-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: mood - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Should each mood be a separate entry?
- How should language-specific rules be linked?
- How should the emotional sense be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-mood/spec.json