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DET: determiner

The English DET covers most cases of Penn Treebank DT, PDT, WDT. However, when a Penn Treebank word with one of these tags stands alone as a noun phrase rather than modifying another word, then it becomes PRON.

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Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

There are 39 DET lemmas (0%), 40 DET types (0%) and 19648 DET tokens (8%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of DET is: 14 in number of lemmas, 15 in number of types and 6 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent DET lemmas: the, a, this, all, some, any, no, that, these, another

The 10 most frequent DET types: the, a, this, an, all, some, any, no, that, these

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: the (DET 10714, PRON 10, ADV 2, ADP 1), a (DET 5272, NOUN 20, X 14, ADV 7, ADP 4, PART 1, CONJ 1, AUX 1), this (DET 894, PRON 508, ADV 5, NOUN 1), all (DET 521, ADV 119, PUNCT 1, X 1, NOUN 1), some (DET 422, ADV 2, X 1), any (DET 400, ADV 8, X 4), no (DET 311, INTJ 57, ADV 38, NOUN 2, X 1), that (SCONJ 1138, PRON 960, DET 216, ADV 36, ADP 4), these (DET 202, PRON 38), another (DET 146, NOUN 1, ADJ 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: the (DET 9575, PRON 8, ADV 2, ADP 1, PART 1), a (DET 4478, X 8, ADV 6, NOUN 5, ADP 4, AUX 1, PART 1, CONJ 1), this (DET 756, PRON 366, ADV 5, NOUN 1), an (DET 582, CONJ 3, NOUN 2), all (DET 463, ADV 116, X 1, NOUN 1), some (DET 395, ADV 2, X 1), any (DET 357, ADV 8, X 4), no (DET 251, INTJ 38, ADV 31, VERB 2, X 1, NOUN 1), that (SCONJ 1130, PRON 886, DET 197, ADV 35, ADP 4), these (DET 169, PRON 20)

• the
  • DET 9575: From the AP comes this story :
  • PRON 8: i love The Script and know the re from iraland .
  • ADV 2: Got the tile ripped out , call today , now all the sudden this grinder wo n’t leave a finished look AND it ‘s $ 125 PLUS around $ 75 for the inserts .
  • ADP 1: Hens make excellent mothers as they are bigger , can see better , and are smarter the Silkies .
  • PART 1: Ok so i spoke to the vet and he said the give him white rice and boiled chicken but only a little at a time .
• a
  • DET 4478: Read the entire article ; there ‘s a punchline , too .
  • X 8: A la guerre c’est comme a la guerre !
  • ADV 6: there will be talent and opportunity a plenty on the market soon .
  • NOUN 5: Top range of bike , cheap prices , excellent a +++
  • ADP 4: Big deal kind a stuff .
  • AUX 1: yea i guess but rabbits a easily escape a pen or another rabbit could get in there and that rabbit could be the opposite gender .
  • PART 1: I feel X - BOX is a very smooth system i own it like 3 years , it s very compatible to previous versions and mostly important i was very comfortable with the User Interface and the JOYSTICK …. coz you do nt wan a hold a joystick that gives you discomfort .
  • CONJ 1: But word of advice if you ‘re get your girlfriend a laptop make sure it s a good brand a not something like DELL , Acer , Asus , eMachines etc .
• this
  • DET 756: From the AP comes this story :
  • PRON 366: He announced this in January :
  • ADV 5: do babies this small hibernate ?
  • NOUN 1: Also , in the 7th line of the reps add the word “ into “ after the word “ entered “ and before the word “ this “ .
• an
  • DET 582: Here ‘s an excerpt from the article :
  • CONJ 3: From Madrid to Seville to Barcelona an Valencia .
  • NOUN 2: Signs of Saltford - an excellent supplier of value for money signs and banners etc .
• all
  • DET 463: i think they are all bark and no bite .
  • ADV 116: i am not going unless lisa promises to get all wasted and boob out .
  • X 1: Save yourself the trouble and skip this place all together .
  • NOUN 1: Please clarify “ all “ do you intend 10MM for ENA as well ?
• some
  • DET 395: Game tonight at 7 , it ‘s time to kick some ass .
  • ADV 2: The freeze thawed some after Yang ‘s 2003 mission .
  • X 1: And every time he see some one he will rush to people and jump on them , does n’t listen to me .
• any
  • DET 357: If you have any questions , please contact us at noc@paulhastings.com .
  • ADV 8: Service does not get any better !!!!
  • X 4: when you turn 21 you can party any were you want
• no
  • DET 251: i think they are all bark and no bite .
  • INTJ 38: Er , no ?
  • ADV 31: Stylish and contemporary , no matter your size or personality type .
  • VERB 2: I du n no how they did it , but Scottish friends — this is THE REAL DEAL .
  • X 1: she knows she is invading someone else ‘s territory , but ca n’t help it , and has no where to go .
  • NOUN 1: It was a no brainer really .
• that
  • SCONJ 1130: It is rumored that North Korea has at least a couple nuclear weapons .
  • PRON 886: Right now that seems to be the US , EU , and IAEA .
  • DET 197: I have sent your question re on line trading to that area .
  • ADV 35: it ‘s passable as a pub , but the pizza is not that great .
  • ADP 4: Is that reasonable ?
• these
  • DET 169: Is this how your clients usually evaluate these properties ?
  • PRON 20: Check these out :

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of DET is 1.025641 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.173735).

The 1st highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “a”: a, an.

The 2nd highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “$ome”: $ome.

The 3rd highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “A”: A.

DET occurs with 3 features: en-feat/PronType (17505; 89% instances), en-feat/Definite (15985; 81% instances), en-feat/Number (1395; 7% instances)

DET occurs with 8 feature-value pairs: Definite=Def, Definite=Ind, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, PronType=Art, PronType=Dem, PronType=Int, PronType=Rel

DET occurs with 9 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Definite=Def|PronType=Art (10713 tokens). Examples: the

Relations

DET nodes are attached to their parents using 26 different relations: en-dep/det (18655; 95% instances), en-dep/neg (312; 2% instances), en-dep/det:predet (203; 1% instances), en-dep/nsubj (122; 1% instances), en-dep/nmod (93; 0% instances), en-dep/dobj (92; 0% instances), en-dep/conj (35; 0% instances), en-dep/mark (28; 0% instances), en-dep/root (26; 0% instances), en-dep/advmod (13; 0% instances), en-dep/reparandum (13; 0% instances), en-dep/nsubjpass (12; 0% instances), en-dep/nummod (8; 0% instances), en-dep/compound (7; 0% instances), en-dep/appos (6; 0% instances), en-dep/nmod:npmod (6; 0% instances), en-dep/xcomp (3; 0% instances), en-dep/advcl (2; 0% instances), en-dep/cc:preconj (2; 0% instances), en-dep/ccomp (2; 0% instances), en-dep/parataxis (2; 0% instances), en-dep/vocative (2; 0% instances), en-dep/case (1; 0% instances), en-dep/discourse (1; 0% instances), en-dep/iobj (1; 0% instances), en-dep/remnant (1; 0% instances)

Parents of DET nodes belong to 12 different parts of speech: NOUN (17422; 89% instances), PROPN (1362; 7% instances), ADJ (373; 2% instances), VERB (257; 1% instances), NUM (69; 0% instances), PRON (61; 0% instances), ADV (28; 0% instances), ROOT (26; 0% instances), DET (23; 0% instances), SYM (22; 0% instances), INTJ (3; 0% instances), X (2; 0% instances)

19298 (98%) DET nodes are leaves.

218 (1%) DET nodes have one child.

85 (0%) DET nodes have two children.

47 (0%) DET nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a DET node is 10.

Children of DET nodes are attached using 23 different relations: en-dep/nmod (208; 35% instances), en-dep/case (101; 17% instances), en-dep/punct (55; 9% instances), en-dep/acl:relcl (49; 8% instances), en-dep/advmod (27; 5% instances), en-dep/cc (25; 4% instances), en-dep/conj (25; 4% instances), en-dep/cop (18; 3% instances), en-dep/nsubj (17; 3% instances), en-dep/amod (14; 2% instances), en-dep/neg (9; 2% instances), en-dep/det:predet (8; 1% instances), en-dep/advcl (6; 1% instances), en-dep/mark (5; 1% instances), en-dep/det (4; 1% instances), en-dep/aux (3; 1% instances), en-dep/discourse (3; 1% instances), en-dep/remnant (3; 1% instances), en-dep/appos (2; 0% instances), en-dep/parataxis (2; 0% instances), en-dep/compound (1; 0% instances), en-dep/nmod:npmod (1; 0% instances), en-dep/nmod:poss (1; 0% instances)

Children of DET nodes belong to 16 different parts of speech: NOUN (161; 27% instances), ADP (101; 17% instances), VERB (87; 15% instances), PRON (57; 10% instances), PUNCT (54; 9% instances), ADV (34; 6% instances), CONJ (24; 4% instances), DET (23; 4% instances), ADJ (17; 3% instances), PROPN (7; 1% instances), PART (6; 1% instances), NUM (5; 1% instances), AUX (3; 1% instances), SCONJ (3; 1% instances), SYM (3; 1% instances), INTJ (2; 0% instances)

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Treebank Statistics (UD_English-ESL)

There are 1 DET lemmas (6%), 1 DET types (6%) and 10057 DET tokens (10%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of DET is: 6 in number of lemmas, 6 in number of types and 4 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent DET lemmas: _

The 10 most frequent DET types: _

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: _ (NOUN 15635, VERB 15080, PRON 10618, DET 10057, PUNCT 9580, ADP 8546, ADJ 5857, ADV 5704, AUX 4533, PART 3531, CONJ 3198, SCONJ 2516, PROPN 1795, NUM 844, INTJ 80, X 68, SYM 39)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: _ (NOUN 15635, VERB 15080, PRON 10618, DET 10057, PUNCT 9580, ADP 8546, ADJ 5857, ADV 5704, AUX 4533, PART 3531, CONJ 3198, SCONJ 2516, PROPN 1795, NUM 844, INTJ 80, X 68, SYM 39)

• _
  • NOUN 15635: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
  • VERB 15080: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
  • PRON 10618: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
  • DET 10057: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
  • PUNCT 9580: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
  • ADP 8546: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
  • ADJ 5857: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
  • ADV 5704: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
  • AUX 4533: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
  • PART 3531: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
  • CONJ 3198: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
  • SCONJ 2516: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
  • PROPN 1795: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
  • NUM 844: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
  • INTJ 80: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
  • X 68: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
  • SYM 39: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of DET is 1.000000 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.000000).

The 1st highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “_”: _.

DET does not occur with any features.

Relations

DET nodes are attached to their parents using 19 different relations: en-dep/det (7271; 72% instances), en-dep/nmod:poss (1938; 19% instances), en-dep/nsubj (225; 2% instances), en-dep/det:predet (198; 2% instances), en-dep/nmod (163; 2% instances), en-dep/dobj (110; 1% instances), en-dep/neg (85; 1% instances), en-dep/nsubjpass (33; 0% instances), en-dep/root (8; 0% instances), en-dep/case (6; 0% instances), en-dep/advmod (4; 0% instances), en-dep/mark (4; 0% instances), en-dep/compound (3; 0% instances), en-dep/conj (3; 0% instances), en-dep/amod (2; 0% instances), en-dep/appos (1; 0% instances), en-dep/cc (1; 0% instances), en-dep/ccomp (1; 0% instances), en-dep/mwe (1; 0% instances)

Parents of DET nodes belong to 14 different parts of speech: NOUN (9112; 91% instances), VERB (389; 4% instances), PROPN (199; 2% instances), ADJ (169; 2% instances), ADV (96; 1% instances), PRON (47; 0% instances), NUM (23; 0% instances), ROOT (8; 0% instances), DET (5; 0% instances), SYM (4; 0% instances), ADP (2; 0% instances), AUX (1; 0% instances), INTJ (1; 0% instances), PART (1; 0% instances)

9827 (98%) DET nodes are leaves.

206 (2%) DET nodes have one child.

14 (0%) DET nodes have two children.

10 (0%) DET nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a DET node is 8.

Children of DET nodes are attached using 21 different relations: en-dep/case (158; 56% instances), en-dep/nmod (52; 19% instances), en-dep/acl:relcl (12; 4% instances), en-dep/punct (11; 4% instances), en-dep/advmod (9; 3% instances), en-dep/cop (6; 2% instances), en-dep/nsubj (6; 2% instances), en-dep/cc (4; 1% instances), en-dep/conj (4; 1% instances), en-dep/advcl (3; 1% instances), en-dep/amod (2; 1% instances), en-dep/aux (2; 1% instances), en-dep/det:predet (2; 1% instances), en-dep/mark (2; 1% instances), en-dep/neg (2; 1% instances), en-dep/acl (1; 0% instances), en-dep/appos (1; 0% instances), en-dep/det (1; 0% instances), en-dep/goeswith (1; 0% instances), en-dep/mwe (1; 0% instances), en-dep/nmod:tmod (1; 0% instances)

Children of DET nodes belong to 14 different parts of speech: ADP (157; 56% instances), PRON (32; 11% instances), NOUN (29; 10% instances), VERB (23; 8% instances), PUNCT (11; 4% instances), ADV (7; 2% instances), DET (5; 2% instances), ADJ (4; 1% instances), CONJ (4; 1% instances), PART (3; 1% instances), AUX (2; 1% instances), SCONJ (2; 1% instances), PROPN (1; 0% instances), X (1; 0% instances)

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Treebank Statistics (UD_English-LinES)

There are 1 DET lemmas (6%), 24 DET types (0%) and 7865 DET tokens (9%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of DET is: 6 in number of lemmas, 12 in number of types and 5 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent DET lemmas: _

The 10 most frequent DET types: the, a, an, this, that, no, all, some, any, these

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: _ (NOUN 14939, VERB 11076, PUNCT 10025, ADP 8281, DET 7865, PRON 7793, ADJ 5305, ADV 4610, AUX 3168, PROPN 2792, CONJ 2535, PART 2131, SCONJ 1512, NUM 581, INTJ 159, X 43, SYM 6)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: the (DET 4250, ADV 1), a (DET 1886, ADV 5, PRON 1), this (DET 154, PRON 87), that (SCONJ 611, DET 118, PRON 108), no (DET 100, ADV 27, PRON 10, INTJ 9), all (DET 100, PRON 92, ADV 47, ADJ 1), some (DET 80, PRON 15, ADV 3), any (DET 78, PRON 6, ADV 5), these (DET 54, PRON 5), each (DET 30, PRON 24)

• the
  • DET 4250: Open the page in Access 2002 Design view .
  • ADV 1: The sooner he got out of here , the better .
• a
  • DET 1886: Linking a page to a connection file
  • ADV 5: Stepping out , I feel a bit numb , like a wasp in autumn .
  • PRON 1: They have not all been met , but a great many have .
• this
  • DET 154: You sit here and think : who is this person talking to me ?
  • PRON 87: The fact that my name has been mixed up in this .
• that
  • SCONJ 611: It could be that Auster had so much work he did n’t need to advertise .
  • DET 118: We will meet that commitment .
  • PRON 108: But no , that did not seem possible .
• no
  • DET 100: Returning to it next day , I found Faulkner guilty of no offense .
  • ADV 27: Surely no more than a minute or two .
  • PRON 10: Margot Wentz said , looking at no one , That one ca n’t say .
  • INTJ 9: But no , that did not seem possible .
• all
  • DET 100: Sadly my report is not all plaudits .
  • PRON 92: Apparently Russians are all inclined to see us in this way .
  • ADV 47: I do n’t understand it at all .
  • ADJ 1: What is all important is to be French , or to have been French for a good long time .
• some
  • DET 80: People with some faith .
  • PRON 15: I have been in some of them , and … well , we wo n’t talk about that .
  • ADV 3: So they are still wearing them some four thousand years later .
• any
  • DET 78: To any extent .
  • PRON 6: They ‘re just not going to find any .
  • ADV 5: He wondered if the young Auster had been any better at it than he was .
• these
  • DET 54: The North Pole was one of these places , I remember .
  • PRON 5: However , I was n’t going into any of these .
• each
  • DET 30: For each start tag , there is a corresponding end tag .
  • PRON 24: Conditional filters are independent of each other .

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of DET is 24.000000 (the average of all parts of speech is 597.705882).

The 1st highest number of forms (24) was observed with the lemma “_”: La, Le, a, all, an, any, both, du, each, either, every, more, no, one, some, that, the, these, this, those, what, whatever, which, whose.

DET does not occur with any features.

Relations

DET nodes are attached to their parents using 6 different relations: en-dep/det (7763; 99% instances), en-dep/neg (89; 1% instances), en-dep/amod (7; 0% instances), en-dep/dobj (4; 0% instances), en-dep/advmod (1; 0% instances), en-dep/appos (1; 0% instances)

Parents of DET nodes belong to 13 different parts of speech: NOUN (7353; 93% instances), ADJ (164; 2% instances), PROPN (153; 2% instances), VERB (71; 1% instances), PRON (67; 1% instances), ADV (17; 0% instances), NUM (16; 0% instances), DET (12; 0% instances), PUNCT (4; 0% instances), ADP (3; 0% instances), X (3; 0% instances), INTJ (1; 0% instances), SYM (1; 0% instances)

7811 (99%) DET nodes are leaves.

44 (1%) DET nodes have one child.

7 (0%) DET nodes have two children.

3 (0%) DET nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a DET node is 3.

Children of DET nodes are attached using 14 different relations: en-dep/mwe (15; 22% instances), en-dep/det (14; 21% instances), en-dep/advmod (12; 18% instances), en-dep/mark (6; 9% instances), en-dep/punct (6; 9% instances), en-dep/nsubj (4; 6% instances), en-dep/aux (2; 3% instances), en-dep/cc (2; 3% instances), en-dep/acl (1; 1% instances), en-dep/advcl (1; 1% instances), en-dep/appos (1; 1% instances), en-dep/conj (1; 1% instances), en-dep/dobj (1; 1% instances), en-dep/neg (1; 1% instances)

Children of DET nodes belong to 13 different parts of speech: ADJ (13; 19% instances), ADV (12; 18% instances), DET (12; 18% instances), PUNCT (6; 9% instances), ADP (5; 7% instances), SCONJ (4; 6% instances), CONJ (3; 4% instances), NOUN (3; 4% instances), PRON (3; 4% instances), AUX (2; 3% instances), PART (2; 3% instances), PROPN (1; 1% instances), VERB (1; 1% instances)

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