Homework

[sasa...@msn.com]

Hi guys :) I am totally new to prolog and therefor could use some help with a homework. I already asked the question on stackoverflow, but for what I really needed, the guy stopped responding and the homework is due to tomorrow :/ 

So we need to formulate these sentences into Prolog: 

-Bill owns a dog. 

-Every dogowner likes animals. 

-Every person who likes animals cannot hit an animal. 

-Bill or Bull hit a cat whose name is Tom. 

-Every cat is an animal.

owns(bill,dog). 

likes(X,animals):- owns(X,dog).

cannothit(X,animal):- likes(X,animals). or hit(X,animal):- \+ likes(X,animal)

With the 4th sentence I have a major problem because I do not know how to state that or. 

It would be so awesome if someone could help me. 

 

[Barb Knox]

On 24/11/2017, at 05:08, sasa...@msn.com wrote:

Hi guys :) I am totally new to prolog and therefor could use some help with a homework. I already asked the question on stackoverflow, but for what I really needed, the guy stopped responding

and the homework is due to tomorrow :/ 

(Oops!)

So we need to formulate these sentences into Prolog: 

1.  Bill owns a dog. 

2.  Every dogowner likes animals. 

3.  Every person who likes animals cannot hit an animal. 

4.  Bill or Bull hit a cat whose name is Tom. 

5.  Every cat is an animal.

owns(bill,dog). 

Not quite.  Bill owns *a* dog, i.e. some (unknown to us) thing which is a dog.

I would code it as:

owns(bill, Pet), dog(Pet).

likes(X,animals):- owns(X,dog).

Again, I’d use Pet with dog(Pet) instead of dog.

Further, does X like *some* animals or *all* animals (including, e.g., large venomous spiders)?  It makes a difference.

As it stands, you are saying X likes some *particular* thing with the name “animals”.  Not good.  You can finesse the issue by using a predicate animal_lover(X).

cannothit(X,animal):- likes(X,animals). or hit(X,animal):- \+ likes(X,animal)

Definitely use hit as your predicate, rather than cannothit.  You will need hit for sentence 4.

Also, as with Pet, use hit(Hitter, Hittee) with animal(Hittee).

With the 4th sentence I have a major problem because I do not know how to state that or. 

That is indeed a problem.  Look up “disjunction” in your text.

It would be so awesome if someone could help me. 

I hope this is of some help.  You are unlikely to get correct homework in on time, but hopefully you’ve learned a couple of useful things.

IMO and FWIW, this is a *poor* problem for beginners.  Your instructor(s) may be less than adequately competent with Prolog.  They would not be the first….

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