Degree

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`Degree`: degree of comparison

Definition

Degree of comparison is an inflectional feature of some adjectives and verb participles. A participle has to be tagged as ADJ in order to have the Degree feature.

Possible degrees:

Pos: positive, the base form of an adjective.
Examples: suur maja “big house”,
tuntud poliitik “well-known politician”.

Cmp: comparative. The quality of one things is compared to the same quality of another.
Examples: suurem maja “bigger house”, tuntum poliitik “better-known politician”.

Sup: superlative. The quality of one object is compared to the same quality of all other objects within a set. Examples: suurim maja “the biggest house”, tuntuim poliitik “the best-known politician”

Treebank Statistics (UD_Estonian)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 3 different values: Cmp, Pos, Sup.

16316 tokens (7%) have a non-empty value of Degree. 8173 types (16%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Degree. 4248 lemmas (16%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Degree. The feature is used with 3 part-of-speech tags: ADJ (16252; 7% instances), PRON (61; 0% instances), ADV (3; 0% instances).

`ADJ`

16252 ADJ tokens (84% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Degree.

The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and Degree co-occurred: Tense=EMPTY (12862; 79%), Voice=EMPTY (12752; 78%), VerbForm=EMPTY (12749; 78%), Number=Sing (10739; 66%).

ADJ tokens may have the following values of Degree:

Cmp (1396; 9% of non-empty Degree): suurem, suurema, parem, väiksem, suuremad, suuremat, kõrgem, lihtsam, paremaks, kõrgema
Pos (14626; 90% of non-empty Degree): kogu, suur, hea, võimalik, uue, eri, raske, suure, uus, valmis
Sup (230; 1% of non-empty Degree): suurim, parim, parimaks, suurima, Tuntuimad, parima, parimad, suurimad, suurimaid, suurimaks
EMPTY (3169): sama, iga, eesti, selline, esimene, igal, mingi, samal, mingit, muud

Degree seems to be lexical feature of ADJ. 100% lemmas (4244) occur only with one value of Degree.

`PRON`

61 PRON tokens (0% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of Degree.

The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Degree co-occurred: Person=EMPTY (61; 100%), Number=Sing (61; 100%), PronType=Prs (33; 54%).

PRON tokens may have the following values of Degree:

Pos (61; 100% of non-empty Degree): iseenda, üksteist, iseendale, teineteist, iseendaks, iseennast, teineteisele, teineteisest, üksteisel, iseendast
EMPTY (15616): ta, see, oma, mis, ma, kes, seda, selle, tema, nad

`ADV`

3 ADV tokens (0% of all ADV tokens) have a non-empty value of Degree.

ADV tokens may have the following values of Degree:

Pos (3; 100% of non-empty Degree): va
EMPTY (23680): ka, siis, nii, kas, juba, välja, veel, mitte, ära, kus

Relations with Agreement in `Degree`

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Degree: ADJ –[conj]–> ADJ (673; 93%), ADJ –[dep]–> ADJ (25; 76%), ADJ –[xcomp]–> ADJ (14; 82%), ADJ –[parataxis]–> ADJ (12; 71%), ADJ –[csubj]–> ADJ (3; 60%), ADJ –[amod]–> ADV (1; 100%).

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Degree: degree of comparison