CSE 111 | Learning Activities (2023)

06 Prove Assignment: Troubleshooting Functions

Purpose

Prove that you can write a Python program and write and run test functions to help you find and fix mistakes.

Problem Statement

The Turing test, named after Alan Turing, is a test of a computer’s ability to make conversation that is indistinguishable from human conversation. A computer that could pass the Turing test would need to understand sentences typed by a human and respond with sentences that make sense.

In English, a preposition is a word used to express spatial or temporal relations, such as “in”, “over”, and “before”. A prepositional phrase is group of words that begins with a preposition and includes a noun. For example:

above the water
in the kitchen
after the meeting

Assignment

Write the second half of the Python program that you began in the previous lesson’s prove milestone, a program that generates simple English sentences. During this prove assignment, you will write and test functions that generate sentences with four parts:

1. a determiner

2. a noun

3. a verb

4. a prepositional phrase

For example:

One girl talked for the car.
A bird drinks off one child.
The child will run on the car.
Some dogs drank above many rabbits.
Some children laugh at many dogs.
Some rabbits will talk about some cats.

To complete this prove assignment, your program must include at least these six functions:

1. main

2. get_determiner

3. get_noun

4. get_verb

5. get_preposition

   See Also

   Sulla funzione - definizione, formula, proprietà, grafico, esempi5.3: Funzioni uno a unoLinear Algebra/Inverses - Wikibooks, open books for an open world

6. get_prepositional_phrase

You may add other functions if you find them helpful. The get_preposition function must randomly choose a preposition from a list and return the randomly chosen preposition. The get_prepositional_phrase function must make a prepositional phrase by calling the get_preposition, get_determiner, and get_noun functions.

In addition, to complete this prove assignment, you must write and submit a file named test_sentences.py that contains five functions named as follows:

1. test_get_determiner

2. test_get_noun

3. test_get_verb

4. test_get_preposition

5. test_get_prepositional_phrase

Helpful Documentation

• The prepare content for this lesson explains how to troubleshoot functions and entire programs that are not working correctly.

• The string split method separates a string of text into words and returns a list of strings.

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Steps

Do the following:

1. Use the get_determiner function from the previous lesson’s prove milestone as an example to help you write the get_preposition function. The get_preposition function must have the following header and fulfill the requirements of the following documentation string.

   def get_preposition(): """Return a randomly chosen preposition from this list of prepositions: "about", "above", "across", "after", "along", "around", "at", "before", "behind", "below", "beyond", "by", "despite", "except", "for", "from", "in", "into", "near", "of", "off", "on", "onto", "out", "over", "past", "to", "under", "with", "without" Return: a randomly chosen preposition. """

2. Write the get_prepositional_phrase function to have the following header and fulfill the requirements of the following documentation string.

   def get_prepositional_phrase(quantity): """Build and return a prepositional phrase composed of three words: a preposition, a determiner, and a noun by calling the get_preposition, get_determiner, and get_noun functions. Parameter quantity: an integer that determines if the determiner and noun in the prepositional phrase returned from this function should be single or pluaral. Return: a prepositional phrase. """

3. Add code to the main function and write any other functions that you think are necessary for your program to generate and print six sentences, each with a determiner, a noun, a verb, and a prepositional phrase. The six sentences must have the following characteristics:

   	Quantity	Verb Tense
   a.	single	past
   b.	single	present
   c.	single	future
   d.	plural	past
   e.	plural	present
   f.	plural	future

4. In the test_sentences.py file that you wrote during the previous lesson’s prove milestone, write two functions named test_get_preposition and test_get_prepositional_phrase that test the get_preposition and get_prepositional_phrase functions.

   Perhaps you are wondering what code you should write in the test_get_prepositional_phrase function. To answer that question, ask yourself, “What do we know about the get_prepositional_phrase function?” From its description, we know the get_prepositional_phrase function returns a string made of three words: a preposition, a determiner, and a noun. So you could write code in the test_get_prepositional_phrase function that calls the get_prepositional_phrase function and then calls the Python string split method to separate the returned phrase into a list of words and verifies that the length of the list is three. In addition for each word in the list, you could write an assert statement that verifies that each word is the correct English part of speech.

Testing Procedure

Verify that your test program works correctly by following each step in this procedure:

1. Run your test_sentences.py program and verify that all five of the test functions pass. If one or more of the tests don’t pass, find and fix the mistakes in your program functions or test functions until the tests pass as shown in this output:

   > python test_sentences.py=================== test session starts ====================platform win32--Python 3.8.6, pytest-6.1.2, py-1.9.0, pluggyrootdir: C:\Users\cse111\lesson06collected 5 itemstest_sentences.py::test_get_determiner PASSED [ 20%]test_sentences.py::test_get_noun PASSED [ 40%]test_sentences.py::test_get_verb PASSED [ 60%]test_sentences.py::test_get_preposition PASSE [ 80%]test_sentences.py::test_get_prepositional_phrase PASSED [100%]==================== 5 passed in 0.10s =====================

2. Run your sentences.py program and ensure that your program’s output is similar to the sample run output shown here. Because your program randomly chooses the determiners, nouns, verbs, and prepositions, your program will generate different sentences than the ones shown here.

   > python sentences.pyOne girl talked for the car.Some dogs drank above many rabbits.One bird drinks off one child.Some children laugh at many dogs.The child will run on the car.Some rabbits will talk about some cats.

Exceeding the Requirements

If your program fulfills the requirements for this assignment as described in the previous prove milestone and the Assignment section above, your program will earn 93% of the possible points. In order to earn the remaining 7% of points, you will need to add one or more features to your program so that it exceeds the requirements. Here are a few suggestions for additional features that you could add to your program if you wish.

• Within your main function add another call to get_prepositional_phrase so that each sentence includes two prepositional phrases like this:

  One girl across one cat talked for the car.
  A bird near the rabbit drinks off one child.
  The child under the cat will run on the car.
  Some dogs without a cat drank above many rabbits.
  Some children from a bird laugh at many dogs.
  Some rabbits behind one man will talk about some cats.

• Write a function named get_adjective and call it in your main function to add an adjective to the sentences produced by your program. Does it make sense to call get_adjective in your get_prepositional_phrase function?

• In test_sentences.py write a function named test_get_adjective that tests the get_adjective function.

• Write a function named get_adverb and call it in your main function to add an adverb to the sentences produced by your program.

• In test_sentences.py write a function named test_get_adverb that tests the get_adverb function.

Ponder

How hard would it be to modify your program to pass the Turing test?

Submission

To submit your program, return to I‑Learn and do these two things:

1. Upload your sentences.py and test_sentences.py files for feedback.

2. Add a submission comment that specifies the grading category that best describes your program along with a one or two sentence justification for your choice. The grading criteria are:

   1. Some attempt made

   2. Developing but significantly deficient

   3. Slightly deficient

   4. Meets requirements

   5. Exceeds requirements

Submission

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