Standardize conjugation properties for Spanish and Portuguese verbs

[andrewtavis]

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Languages

Spanish and Portuguese

Description

A slight annoyance with getting verb conjugations for Wikidata at the moment is that they're not categorized in a consistent manner. As can be seen in data/Spanish/verbs/query_verbs.sparql, verb conjugations need to be done in two ways as some conjugations are categorized using combined properties. An example is that first person singular indicative present conjugations can be queried using two different combinations of properties:

wikibase:grammaticalFeature wd:Q21714344 ; # first person
wikibase:grammaticalFeature wd:Q110786 ; # singular
wikibase:grammaticalFeature wd:Q682111 ; # indicative
wikibase:grammaticalFeature wd:Q192613 ; # present tense

and

wikibase:grammaticalFeature wd:Q51929218 ; # first-person singular
wikibase:grammaticalFeature wd:Q56682909 ; # present indicative

This firstly makes the query longer, and will doubtless lead to issues down the road. Keeping all properties separated to their fullest extent makes sense so that they can be consistently used - i.e. queries could always use present tense Q192613 and not use a version that includes indicative or another case. These can be added to the base queries.

There still are not that many Spanish verbs on Wikidata at the moment, so now is an ideal time to standardize this information.

[andrewtavis]

Note also that this problem is also present for Portuguese. See: abalar and ser for instances of the different categorizing methods.

[andrewtavis]

Also note that many Portuguese verbs are using Q64005357, which is undefined, rather than Q23663136 for past perfect.

• This was dealt with as best as possible in Add Portuguese keyboard Scribe-iOS#67

[andrewtavis]

Note that it's been long enough that a check of if those other conditionals could be removed makes sense :) We'd just remove them and see if roughly the same number of verbs comes out :)

[andrewtavis]

Closed in 9a13dd3 :) Spanish is now fully up to date with not using the combined properties, and there are so few Italian verbs that to me it's fine that this is closed as the new standards dictate that such combined properties should not be used going forward.