person
Let an agent handle grammatical person by language, forms and usage, including narrative point of view and inclusive pronoun usage.
Bundle → Layer → Finding → Questions Filled
4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Grammar Forms.
Identify
Person marking.
Identify
Person identification.
- Which grammatical person is used in this form? definition
- How does the verb agree? definition
Languages
Systems.
Languages
Language systems.
- Does this language distinguish inclusive and exclusive we? provenance
- Which grammar describes it? provenance
Usage Choices.
Politeness
Formal address.
Politeness
Politeness.
- Which second-person form is polite in this context? provenance
- Does it vary by region? boundary
Respect
Pronouns.
Respect
Respectful pronouns.
- Which pronouns does the person use for themselves? provenance
- Is singular they appropriate here? definition
Writing Point of view.
Narrative
Point of view.
Narrative
Narrative person.
- Is the text in first, second or third person? definition
- What effect does that have? definition
Style
Guides.
Style
Style guides.
- Which person does the style guide recommend for this document? provenance
- Is it consistent? boundary
Technology Annotation.
Tagging
Features.
Tagging
Annotation.
- How is person annotated in treebanks? provenance
- Which values are used? definition
Senses
Disambiguation.
Senses
Other senses.
- Is a person as a human being or legal person meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Information and virtual systems
- Entry kind
- noun.communication
- Plane
- INF
- Domain
- INF.MED
- Facets: substance
- information
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- readable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- first person, second person, third person
What it is Filled
A grammatical category that classifies pronouns, possessive determiners and verb forms by the participants in speech: first person (speaker), second person (addressee) and third person (others), with further distinctions such as inclusive and exclusive we in some languages.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent handle grammatical person by language, forms and usage, including narrative point of view and inclusive pronoun usage.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Grammatical category
- Three basic persons
- Varies by language
- Linked to politeness
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Misgender a person by using third-person forms they have asked not to be used.
- Present an agent's output in the first person as a named human's words.
- Treat one language's person system as applying to all languages.
Only with a human decision
- Writing first-person statements to be signed by a person.
May
- Explain grammatical person and how languages mark it.
- Use the person form a user requests for writing in first, second or third person.
Moral aspects Filled
- Pronouns are tied to identity and respect.
- First-person text attributed to someone carries their responsibility.
Who is affected
- People referred to by pronouns
- Language learners
- Authors of statements
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns a grammatical category; it is held in common.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-06320373-n - registry parent class
related
- grammatical category - category
- pronoun and verb - forms
- narrative point of view - literature
- person (human) - another sense
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.person-communication
- Open English WordNet: oewn-06337790-n
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane INF: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- First, second, third person
- Verb agreement endings
- A person as a human being is a different sense
- Pronouns and verb endings in text and speech.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- identify person in pronouns and verbs
- explain inclusive and exclusive forms
- choose narrative point of view
- use pronouns respectfully
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Agreement errors
- Disrespectful pronoun use
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Universal Dependencies feature Person
Context of use required Filled
- Encoding who is speaking, addressed or talked about.
- first person
- second person
- third person
- inclusive and exclusive first person plural
- impersonal forms
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-06337790-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: person - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Should each person be a separate entry?
- How should language-specific systems be linked?
- How should the human sense be split off?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-person-communication/spec.json