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Degree: degree of comparison

Degree of comparison is typically an inflectional feature of some adjectives and adverbs.

In Bulgarian the comparative and superlative forms are created with the help of the particles по / po “more” and най / nay “most”, which are part of the word and come in preposition, separated by a defice.

Pos: positive, first degree

This is the base form that merely states a quality of something, without comparing it to qualities of others. Note that although this degree is traditionally called “positive”, negative properties can be compared, too.

Examples

Cmp: comparative, second degree

The quality of one object is compared to the same quality of another object.

Examples

Sup: superlative, third degree

The quality of one object is compared to the same quality of all other objects within a set.

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Bulgarian)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 3 different values: Cmp, Pos, Sup.

13866 tokens (9%) have a non-empty value of Degree. 6406 types (24%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Degree. 3115 lemmas (21%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Degree. The feature is used with 4 part-of-speech tags: bg-pos/ADJ (11557; 7% instances), bg-pos/ADV (2304; 1% instances), bg-pos/VERB (3; 0% instances), bg-pos/PROPN (2; 0% instances).

ADJ

11557 bg-pos/ADJ tokens (85% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Degree.

The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and Degree co-occurred: Aspect=EMPTY (11198; 97%), Voice=EMPTY (11198; 97%), VerbForm=EMPTY (11198; 97%), Number=Sing (8156; 71%), Definite=Ind (6221; 54%).

ADJ tokens may have the following values of Degree:

Paradigm голямPosCmpSup
Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Singголемият, големияпо-големиянай-големия, най-големият
Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Singголяматапо-голяматанай-голямата
Definite=Def|Gender=Neut|Number=Singпо-голямотонай-голямото
Definite=Def|Number=Plurголемитепо-големитенай-големите
Definite=Ind|Gender=Masc|Number=Singголямпо-голямнай-голям
Definite=Ind|Gender=Fem|Number=Singголямапо-голяманай-голяма
Definite=Ind|Gender=Neut|Number=Singголямопо-голямонай-голямо
Definite=Ind|Number=Plurголемипо-големинай-големи

Degree seems to be lexical feature of ADJ. 95% lemmas (2447) occur only with one value of Degree.

ADV

2304 bg-pos/ADV tokens (35% of all ADV tokens) have a non-empty value of Degree.

The most frequent other feature values with which ADV and Degree co-occurred: PronType=EMPTY (2303; 100%).

ADV tokens may have the following values of Degree:

Paradigm многоPosCmpSup
_многопо-многонай-много
Definite=Ind|Number=Plur|NumType=Cardмногонай-много

Degree seems to be lexical feature of ADV. 93% lemmas (516) occur only with one value of Degree.

VERB

3 bg-pos/VERB tokens (0% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Degree.

The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Degree co-occurred: VerbForm=Part (3; 100%), Person=EMPTY (3; 100%), Mood=EMPTY (3; 100%), Number=Plur (2; 67%), Aspect=Perf (2; 67%), Tense=Past (2; 67%), Definite=Ind (2; 67%), Voice=Act (2; 67%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Degree:

PROPN

2 bg-pos/PROPN tokens (0% of all PROPN tokens) have a non-empty value of Degree.

The most frequent other feature values with which PROPN and Degree co-occurred: Definite=Ind (2; 100%), Number=Sing (2; 100%).

PROPN tokens may have the following values of Degree:

Relations with Agreement in Degree

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Degree: ADJ –[conj]–> ADJ (283; 85%), ADV –[conj]–> ADV (30; 79%), ADV –[nmod]–> ADJ (3; 75%), ADV –[mwe]–> ADV (2; 100%), ADJ –[nmod]–> ADJ (2; 67%), ADJ –[csubj]–> ADJ (2; 67%), ADJ –[amod]–> ADJ (1; 100%), ADJ –[advcl]–> ADJ (1; 100%), ADV –[advcl]–> ADJ (1; 100%), ADJ –[remnant]–> ADJ (1; 100%).


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