Sentence maker makes a random English sentence based on a sentence pattern defined in data/patterns.txt.

---Patterns--- Describing a country. 中国很大。 Asking about a country. 中国大吗？ Describing a person's profession. 他是老师。 Asking about a person's profession. 他是老师吗？

---Pattern Definitions--- Patterns in patterns.txt are defined in the form:

[English] [Chinese] [options...]

[English] is a sequence of words separated by spaces.

n

• where n is an integer means that word will be chosen from the nth option list is%n
• where n is an integer replaces the verb 'is' with the correct form based on the pronoun that should be defined by option n

[Chinese] is a sequence of words separated by spaces. Words are in English and looked up in the dictionary defined in words_with_tags.txt (so must exist there)

n

• where n is an integer means that word will be chosen from the nth option list

[options] is a tab-delimited list of category names. These names must be a tag of at least one word in words_with_tags.txt