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Decide how to realise a referring expression

Decide how to realise a single unit within a referring expression

Keep in mind that this is only for one DiscourseUnit within a single rx. An rx may involve multiple discourse units (eg. 3 cats and 1 dog)

Helper for fromConcept

Whether the noun in a DiscourseUnit should be realised as singular or plural. Note the difference between this and actualNumber

Whether a DiscourseUnit should be considered *morally* (semantically) singular or plural. The actual form used may be different (see conceptNumber because of deeper issues that override this).

Consider one of the *dogs*; here the rx number is Singular — one dog — but on the surface we use the Plural (the NP 'the dogs' is itself plural). This discrepency is partly due to the hacky way we've written this. A cleaner implementation would recursively realise 'the dogs' as a separate expression with its own number.

Helper for fromConcept

A discriminator is what we call the optional bit of text that helps you distinguish one set instances of a class from another, eg, “the same” or “another three”, or simply “the“

If there are any unknown constraints, we pick the first one. Otherwise, we generate an expression appropriate for the lower/upper bounds