Develop a method to ignore certain OPTIONAL selections in query checks

[andrewtavis]

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Description

Something that I'm realizing is that we need to be able to expand the Wikidata queries to include some values that are not directly represented as forms for the lexeme. For instance:

• For German verbs, if we want a perfect tense then we need to combine the auxiliary form with a conjugation of sein or haben (to be or to have), but then there is no form for this
  • We have "gegangen" for "gone", but for the conjugation table we want "bin gegangen" for the auxiliary verb
• For English verb conjugations we want to create the full conjugation tables, but the data that's saved is just the base form of the verb and the third person singular form
  • This makes sense for saving data space, but not for making a complete data set at the end

An idea is that we place a comment in the OPTIONAL {} selection that then tells our check systems to ignore that selection - maybe something like # query-check-ignore.

• Note: This issue is related to Add Feature to Extract and Verify All Grammatical Features for a Data Type in a Given Language #513 and the query check process

Contribution

@axif0 could work on this as a part of Outreachy, but this issue wasn't discussed yet :) Happy to assist and review!

[andrewtavis]

@axif0, let me know what your thoughts are on this. We can also discuss in the next sync or a call. Basic thing is that we'd like to get "all the conjugations" for verb data, but sometimes only part of the data is saved. If we include it in the query, then the forms check workflow will fail, so we need to figure out how to skip these workflows for some fields that we add in ourselves to make the resulting data set more complete :)