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ADJ: adjective

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Treebank Statistics (UD_German)

There are 5152 ADJ lemmas (11%), 7733 ADJ types (14%) and 21316 ADJ tokens (7%). Out of 15 observed tags, the rank of ADJ is: 3 in number of lemmas, 3 in number of types and 7 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent ADJ lemmas: erst, groß, gut, neu, weit, spät, ander, deutsch, alt, hoch

The 10 most frequent ADJ types: ersten, später, erste, anderen, weitere, neue, bekannt, neuen, großen, große

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: erst (ADJ 408, ADV 119, PROPN 39, NOUN 13, NUM 1), groß (ADJ 385, PROPN 23, NOUN 3, VERB 1, ADV 1), gut (ADJ 344, ADV 79, PROPN 11, NOUN 7), neu (ADJ 309, PROPN 17, ADV 11), weit (ADJ 276, ADV 6, NOUN 5), spät (ADJ 239, ADV 36, ADP 1, NOUN 1), ander (ADJ 228, PRON 159, NOUN 5, ADV 2), deutsch (ADJ 182, PROPN 82, NOUN 7), alt (ADJ 179, PROPN 18, NOUN 5), hoch (ADJ 176, PROPN 5, ADV 2, NOUN 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: ersten (ADJ 205, NOUN 4), später (ADJ 160, ADV 34, ADP 1, NOUN 1), erste (ADJ 158, NOUN 6, ADV 1), anderen (ADJ 129, PRON 32, NOUN 1), weitere (ADJ 90, NOUN 1), neue (ADJ 108, PROPN 1), bekannt (ADJ 97, ADV 8, VERB 4), großen (ADJ 93, PROPN 2, VERB 1), große (ADJ 83, PROPN 1), gut (ADJ 77, ADV 73, PROPN 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of ADJ is 1.500970 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.186521).

The 1st highest number of forms (21) was observed with the lemma “groß”: gross, grosse, grossen, grosser, groß, große, großem, großen, großer, großes, grössere, grösste, größer, größere, größerem, größeren, größerer, größeres, größte, größten, größter.

The 2nd highest number of forms (17) was observed with the lemma “hoch”: Höchstes, hoch, hohe, hohem, hohen, hoher, hohes, höchste, höchstem, höchsten, höchster, höher, höhere, höherem, höheren, höherer, höheres.

The 3rd highest number of forms (16) was observed with the lemma “gut”: besser, bessere, besserem, besseren, besserer, besseres, beste, besten, bester, bestes, gut, gute, gutem, guten, guter, gutes.

ADJ occurs with 5 features: de-feat/Degree (19626; 92% instances), de-feat/Case (9726; 46% instances), de-feat/Number (9689; 45% instances), de-feat/Gender (6700; 31% instances), de-feat/NumType (644; 3% instances)

ADJ occurs with 15 feature-value pairs: Case=Acc, Case=Dat, Case=Gen, Case=Nom, Degree=Cmp, Degree=Cmp,Pos, Degree=Pos, Degree=Sup, Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, Gender=Masc,Neut, Gender=Neut, NumType=Ord, Number=Plur, Number=Sing

ADJ occurs with 169 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Degree=Pos (8927 tokens). Examples: ersten, anderen, erste, gut, großen, kurz, neue, neuen, deutschen, freundlich

Relations

ADJ nodes are attached to their parents using 24 different relations: de-dep/amod (14642; 69% instances), de-dep/advmod (2915; 14% instances), de-dep/root (1550; 7% instances), de-dep/conj (1203; 6% instances), de-dep/xcomp (241; 1% instances), de-dep/acl (161; 1% instances), de-dep/compound (118; 1% instances), de-dep/advcl (111; 1% instances), de-dep/ccomp (103; 0% instances), de-dep/appos (76; 0% instances), de-dep/parataxis (72; 0% instances), de-dep/cop (31; 0% instances), de-dep/det (29; 0% instances), de-dep/nsubj (16; 0% instances), de-dep/dep (11; 0% instances), de-dep/csubj (10; 0% instances), de-dep/dobj (9; 0% instances), de-dep/nmod (5; 0% instances), de-dep/csubjpass (3; 0% instances), de-dep/mwe (3; 0% instances), de-dep/nmod:poss (3; 0% instances), de-dep/neg (2; 0% instances), de-dep/mark (1; 0% instances), de-dep/nummod (1; 0% instances)

Parents of ADJ nodes belong to 14 different parts of speech: NOUN (14440; 68% instances), VERB (2402; 11% instances), ADJ (1975; 9% instances), ROOT (1550; 7% instances), PROPN (721; 3% instances), ADP (68; 0% instances), ADV (59; 0% instances), NUM (44; 0% instances), PRON (39; 0% instances), X (5; 0% instances), SCONJ (4; 0% instances), AUX (3; 0% instances), DET (3; 0% instances), PART (3; 0% instances)

15428 (72%) ADJ nodes are leaves.

2352 (11%) ADJ nodes have one child.

1005 (5%) ADJ nodes have two children.

2531 (12%) ADJ nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a ADJ node is 13.

Children of ADJ nodes are attached using 32 different relations: de-dep/advmod (3215; 19% instances), de-dep/punct (3091; 18% instances), de-dep/nmod (2557; 15% instances), de-dep/cop (2274; 13% instances), de-dep/nsubj (2008; 12% instances), de-dep/conj (1258; 7% instances), de-dep/cc (972; 6% instances), de-dep/case (199; 1% instances), de-dep/mark (173; 1% instances), de-dep/compound (131; 1% instances), de-dep/det (130; 1% instances), de-dep/advcl (117; 1% instances), de-dep/neg (113; 1% instances), de-dep/parataxis (80; 0% instances), de-dep/amod (79; 0% instances), de-dep/appos (72; 0% instances), de-dep/csubj (65; 0% instances), de-dep/dobj (58; 0% instances), de-dep/iobj (52; 0% instances), de-dep/ccomp (44; 0% instances), de-dep/name (44; 0% instances), de-dep/nsubjpass (41; 0% instances), de-dep/xcomp (40; 0% instances), de-dep/dep (39; 0% instances), de-dep/nummod (38; 0% instances), de-dep/expl (30; 0% instances), de-dep/acl (27; 0% instances), de-dep/aux (9; 0% instances), de-dep/mwe (4; 0% instances), de-dep/auxpass (3; 0% instances), de-dep/compound:prt (3; 0% instances), de-dep/det:poss (2; 0% instances)

Children of ADJ nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: NOUN (3432; 20% instances), PUNCT (3094; 18% instances), VERB (2781; 16% instances), ADV (2396; 14% instances), ADJ (1975; 12% instances), CONJ (977; 6% instances), PRON (779; 5% instances), PROPN (664; 4% instances), NUM (225; 1% instances), ADP (214; 1% instances), SCONJ (163; 1% instances), PART (119; 1% instances), DET (114; 1% instances), X (24; 0% instances), AUX (11; 0% instances)


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