Subjunctive — Mood=Sub — proposal
Proposal: accept Mood=Sub, as in EWT, GUM and ParTUT, not the note in _en/feat/Mood.md about Inf and Ind (Subjunctive: Mood.md requires Inf and Ind, EWT writes Mood=Sub).
What exactly in mova.
- present subjunctive, a VB without an auxiliary in a clause with its own subject after suggest/insist/recommend that, it is vital that etc.:
Mood=Sub|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin, person and number from the subject, as in EWT; - past subjunctive were with a singular subject (if I were, were I to):
Mood=Sub|Tense=Past; - do not automatically fix examples that EWT left with Inf (at least 5). The rule
ud218.subjunctive-as-infonly suggests candidates for edit mode.
Why.
- More informative. The subjunctive is a clause-level feature: demand, unreal condition. Exactly such features enrich a document for RAG. By the letter of
Mood.mdthey would disappear intoInfandInd. - More consistent than the letter of the text. The note itself admits that this is a forced simplification ("no reliable way of identifying subjunctive verbs in an automatic way").
_en/feat/Tense.md:15already mentions the subjunctive on VB. The validator allowsMood=Subfor AUX and VERB. - Lossless into the standard. The literal
Mood.mdform is obtained deterministically: VBSub→VerbForm=Inf, removeMood,Tense,Number,Person; VBDSub→Mood=Ind. Export to EWT 2.18 is identity. - Caveat. The reverse transition from
InftoSubis never deterministic. SoSubmust be on themovaside, not on the export side.
Evidence from the data:
- EWT 2.18:
Mood=Sub57 (VB 49, were 8); were with 1st or 3rd personSingandMood=Ind— 0; - VB
Infwith a subject, withoutauxand to — 54, of which at least 5 are subjunctives; - GUM — 27, ParTUT — 18, LinES — 5.
Check. en.verbal.subjunctive-present-feats (Subjunctive mood); counters ud218.subjunctive-*.
Origin. Subjunctive: Mood.md requires Inf and Ind, EWT writes Mood=Sub; 2.18:docs/_en/feat/Mood.md:40, 2.18:docs/_en/feat/Tense.md:15.
Mova decides.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/dialects/mova/seeds/subjunctive/