Responsible person: Ivana Korbayova

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I have adapted the CONJUNCTION region to suite the Agile texts. In particular, we need to generate textual conjunctions like "first", "now", "then", "finally". Nigel implements "sequence regulation" in the CONJUNCTION region which is convenient for this purpose. While in general, one should probably distinguish (following people like Halliday or Martin) between presentational, temporal, numerical, logical and possibly other types of sequences, it seems we can make do with just one type for the Agile texts, corresponding sort of to the temporal conception of a sequence (because it does have something to do with the temporal sequence of the processes, ie the order in which teh user-actions are to be carried out).

A distinction is made between an ABSOLUTE and a RELATIVE position in the sequence. The relative position corresponds to English "further". The absolute position splits further. Now, here comes a slight modification of the initial Nigel implementation, where only "ultimately" and "secondly" were distinguished. I am using a three-way distinction between "first(ly)", "finally/lastly/ultimately" and "now". While "first" is clearly an added distinction, "now" sort of replaces the original "secondly" by something more general. Putting "now" into this place probably is not entirely correct, on the other hand, I like to keep these sequential conjunctions separate from the temporal ones, even though their realizations may end up being the same. Moreover, while I did find "then" among the temporal conjunctions, I did not find "now" there anyway.

There are more systems changed, because, while I was at it, I changed the lexify statements everywhere from English to Czech lexical items.

I have also changed or added the corresponding SPL macro definitions.

The crucial ones for the Agile purposes are:

I am not entirely happy with this, in the sense that I would myself distinguish at least between temporal and presentational sequence-relative realization, as follows:

But, as for the extremal-first and extermal-last I did not find different realizations. So in fact, the way it is now, the sequence regulation models the temporal sequencing.

There is a bunch of testing SPLs which all work with the Czech grammar, in the file conjunction.spl