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Collect nouns immediately after adjectives
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Collect nouns immediately after adjectives
Follow one occurrence at a time. Choose another input to test empty lists, repeated IDs and different parameters.
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Predict the next change, then step through the list. The original course records remain unchanged.
Keep the word-card order. Let X = first(L) and Y = first(rest(L)). Select this neighbour pair only if X.PartOfSpeech is Adjective AND Y.PartOfSpeech is Noun. Append positions or a structured pair so you remember which occurrences matched.
Pairs = []
L = WordRecords
while length(L) >= 2:
X = first(L)
Y = first(rest(L))
if X.PartOfSpeech == "Adjective" AND Y.PartOfSpeech == "Noun":
Pairs = Pairs ++ [[X.SerialNumber,Y.SerialNumber]]
L = rest(L)| Positions | Adjacent words |
|---|---|
| [21,22] | delicious freedom |
| [50,51] | yellow building; |
| [53,54] | fire-eyed Vedanayagam, |
| [63,64] | long cane... |
The tags are given on the cards; this procedure does not solve English grammar in general. “Reluctant to” has an adjective followed by a preposition, so fails this specific test. “Dismal yellow building” has two adjectives before a noun, but dismal is not IMMEDIATELY before building. The lecture discusses that wider phrase pattern without changing the adjacent-pair rule.
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Should “thin” and “cane” be counted as an immediate pair in “thin long cane”?
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No. Long lies between them. Long–cane is the immediate adjective–noun pair.
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How many adjacent word pairs are tested in the 65-card paragraph?
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64 when all neighbours are inspected once.
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Why preserve SerialNumber rather than only the word spelling?
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The same word can occur more than once. Positions identify the actual occurrences and preserve the text sequence.