Definite

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`Definite`: definiteness or state

In English, the Definite feature is marked only on the determiners the, a, and an.

`Ind`: indefinite

a, an

`Def`: definite

the

Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 2 different values: Def, Ind.

15986 tokens (6%) have a non-empty value of Definite. 8 types (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Definite. 2 lemmas (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Definite. The feature is used with 2 part-of-speech tags: en-pos/DET (15985; 6% instances), en-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances).

`DET`

15985 en-pos/DET tokens (81% of all DET tokens) have a non-empty value of Definite.

The most frequent other feature values with which DET and Definite co-occurred: PronType=Art (15985; 100%).

DET tokens may have the following values of Definite:

Def (10713; 67% of non-empty Definite): the
Ind (5272; 33% of non-empty Definite): a, an
EMPTY (3663): this, all, some, any, no, that, these, another, every, each

`PRON`

1 en-pos/PRON tokens (0% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of Definite.

The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Definite co-occurred: Gender=EMPTY (1; 100%), Number=EMPTY (1; 100%), Poss=EMPTY (1; 100%), Case=EMPTY (1; 100%), PronType=Art (1; 100%), Person=EMPTY (1; 100%).

PRON tokens may have the following values of Definite:

Def (1; 100% of non-empty Definite): The
EMPTY (22626): i, you, it, they, we, my, that, he, your, me

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Definite: definiteness or state

Ind: indefinite

Def: definite