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PronType: pronominal type

In English, this feature applies to pronouns, determiners and pronominal adverbs.

Prs: personal or possessive personal pronoun or determiner

See also the Poss feature that distinguishes normal personal pronouns from possessives. Note that Prs also includes reflexive personal/possessive pronouns.

The following pronouns have this feature:

Art: article

Article is a special case of determiner that bears the feature of definiteness.

In English, the following three determiners have this feature:

Int: interrogative pronoun, determiner or adverb

Note that the possessive interrogative determiner (whose) can be distinguished by the Poss feature.

In English, all words with the PTB tag WDT, WP, WP$ or WRB have this feature unless they mark the beginning of a relative clause.

Examples:

Rel: relative pronoun or determiner

All pronouns and determiners that mark the beginning of a relative clause have this feature.

Examples:

Dem: demonstrative determiner or adverb

The following determiners and adverbs have this feature:

Note that that only has this feature when it is being used as a demonstrative determiner. If it is used to mark the beginning of a clausal complement or a relative clause it does not have this feature.


Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 5 different values: Art, Dem, Int, Prs, Rel.

40610 tokens (16%) have a non-empty value of PronType. 129 types (1%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of PronType. 53 lemmas (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of PronType. The feature is used with 3 part-of-speech tags: en-pos/PRON (21303; 9% instances), en-pos/DET (17505; 7% instances), en-pos/ADV (1802; 1% instances).

PRON

21303 en-pos/PRON tokens (94% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of PronType.

The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and PronType co-occurred: Poss=EMPTY (17716; 83%), Gender=EMPTY (16563; 78%), Number=Sing (11794; 55%), Case=Nom (11682; 55%).

PRON tokens may have the following values of PronType:

Paradigm thatRelDem
_thatthat
Number=Singthat

DET

17505 en-pos/DET tokens (89% of all DET tokens) have a non-empty value of PronType.

The most frequent other feature values with which DET and PronType co-occurred: Definite=Def (10713; 61%).

DET tokens may have the following values of PronType:

Paradigm whatIntRel
whatwhat

ADV

1802 en-pos/ADV tokens (14% of all ADV tokens) have a non-empty value of PronType.

ADV tokens may have the following values of PronType:

Paradigm whenIntRel
whenwhen

Relations with Agreement in PronType

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in PronType: PRON –[conj]–> PRON (26; 72%), PRON –[nmod:npmod]–> PRON (3; 100%), ADV –[conj]–> PRON (3; 100%), PRON –[remnant]–> PRON (1; 100%), PRON –[parataxis]–> PRON (1; 100%).


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