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Case: case

Definition

Case is an inflectional feature for nouns, pronouns, adjectives and numerals in Estonian.
Estonian has 14 inflectional cases:
nominative
genitive
partitive
illative
inessive
elative
allative
adessive
ablative
translative
terminative
essive
abessive
comitative


Treebank Statistics (UD_Estonian)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 15 different values: Abe, Abl, Add, Ade, All, Com, Ela, Ess, Gen, Ill, Ine, Nom, Par, Ter, Tra.

110245 tokens (47%) have a non-empty value of Case. 42979 types (86%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Case. 22602 lemmas (83%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Case. The feature is used with 10 part-of-speech tags: NOUN (59466; 25% instances), ADJ (16950; 7% instances), PRON (15676; 7% instances), PROPN (12968; 6% instances), NUM (3275; 1% instances), VERB (1878; 1% instances), SYM (11; 0% instances), X (11; 0% instances), AUX (9; 0% instances), ADP (1; 0% instances).

NOUN

59466 NOUN tokens (99% of all NOUN tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

The most frequent other feature values with which NOUN and Case co-occurred: Number=Sing (45797; 77%).

NOUN tokens may have the following values of Case:

Paradigm riikNomGenParEssTraComIneIllElaAddAdeAllAblTer
Hyph=Yes|Number=Singriigi-
Number=Singriikriigiriikiriiginariigiksriigigariigisriigistriikiriigilriigileriigiltriigini
Number=Plurriigid, riigisriikideriikeriikidegariikidesriikidesseriikidestriikidelriikidele

ADJ

16950 ADJ tokens (87% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and Case co-occurred: Tense=EMPTY (15142; 89%), Voice=EMPTY (15064; 89%), VerbForm=EMPTY (15061; 89%), Number=Sing (12954; 76%), Degree=Pos (12651; 75%).

ADJ tokens may have the following values of Case:

Paradigm uusNomGenParTraIneIllElaAddAdeAllAbl
Number=Singuusuueuutuueksuuesuuestuudeuueluueleuuelt
Number=Pluruueduuteuusiuutesuutesseuutestuuteluutele

PRON

15676 PRON tokens (100% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Case co-occurred: Number=Sing (11885; 76%), Person=EMPTY (10002; 64%).

PRON tokens may have the following values of Case:

Paradigm seeNomGenParTraComAbeIneIllElaAdeAllAblTer
Number=Sing|PronType=Demsee, seegiselle, sellegiseda, sedagiselleks, sekssellegaselleta, selletagiselles, ses, selleskisellessesellest, sest, sellestkisel, sellelsellelesellelt, selleltkiselleni
Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prsnende
Number=Plur|PronType=Demneed, needkinendeneid, neidkiNendeksnendeganeis, nendesneisseneist, nendestneil, nendel, neilgineile, nendeleneilt

PROPN

12968 PROPN tokens (99% of all PROPN tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

The most frequent other feature values with which PROPN and Case co-occurred: Number=Sing (12896; 99%).

PROPN tokens may have the following values of Case:

Paradigm RootsiNomGenParComIneElaAddAdeAllAbl
RootsiRootsiRootsitRootsigaRootsisRootsistRootsiRootsilRootsileRootsilt

NUM

3275 NUM tokens (79% of all NUM tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

The most frequent other feature values with which NUM and Case co-occurred: NumType=Card (3272; 100%), Number=Sing (3195; 98%), NumForm=Letter (1945; 59%).

NUM tokens may have the following values of Case:

Paradigm üksNomGenParEssTraComIneElaAdeAllAbl
Hyph=Yesühe-
NumForm=Letterüks, ükski, üheüheühtegi, ühte, ühtki, ühtühenaüheksühegaühesühestühel, ühelgiüheleühelt
ühe
PronType=Indühe

VERB

1878 VERB tokens (6% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Case co-occurred: Person=EMPTY (1878; 100%), Number=EMPTY (1878; 100%), VerbForm=Sup (1878; 100%), Tense=EMPTY (1878; 100%), Mood=EMPTY (1878; 100%), Voice=Act (1878; 100%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Case:

Paradigm olemaAbeIneIllEla
olemataolemasolemaolemast

SYM

11 SYM tokens (10% of all SYM tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

The most frequent other feature values with which SYM and Case co-occurred: Number=Sing (11; 100%), Abbr=EMPTY (7; 64%).

SYM tokens may have the following values of Case:

X

11 X tokens (12% of all X tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

The most frequent other feature values with which X and Case co-occurred: Foreign=EMPTY (11; 100%), Number=Sing (10; 91%), Abbr=EMPTY (10; 91%).

X tokens may have the following values of Case:

Paradigm INomGenAde
Number=SingIII
Number=PlurI

AUX

9 AUX tokens (0% of all AUX tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

The most frequent other feature values with which AUX and Case co-occurred: Mood=EMPTY (9; 100%), Tense=EMPTY (9; 100%), VerbForm=Sup (9; 100%), Number=EMPTY (9; 100%), Person=EMPTY (9; 100%), Negative=EMPTY (9; 100%), Voice=Act (9; 100%).

AUX tokens may have the following values of Case:

ADP

1 ADP tokens (0% of all ADP tokens) have a non-empty value of Case.

The most frequent other feature values with which ADP and Case co-occurred: AdpType=Prep (1; 100%).

ADP tokens may have the following values of Case:

Relations with Agreement in Case

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Case: NOUN –[amod]–> ADJ (9997; 85%), NOUN –[conj]–> NOUN (3020; 86%), NOUN –[det]–> PRON (2014; 70%), PROPN –[name]–> PROPN (1271; 64%), ADJ –[nsubj:cop]–> NOUN (982; 90%), PROPN –[appos]–> NOUN (799; 85%), PROPN –[conj]–> PROPN (763; 90%), ADJ –[conj]–> ADJ (656; 90%), NOUN –[nsubj:cop]–> PRON (409; 94%), NOUN –[nsubj:cop]–> NOUN (393; 80%).


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