Negative

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`Negative`: whether the word can be or is negated

Definition

In UD Estonian, the feature Negative marks
forms used as (parts of or modifiers of) negative form of a verb: ei, mitte “no, not”, pole “is not” polnud “was not”, ära “don’t”,
negative conjunctions ega, mitte.

Treebank Statistics (UD_Estonian)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 1 different values: Neg.

3495 tokens (1%) have a non-empty value of Negative. 28 types (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Negative. 10 lemmas (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Negative. The feature is used with 4 part-of-speech tags: AUX (2447; 1% instances), VERB (552; 0% instances), ADV (358; 0% instances), CONJ (138; 0% instances).

`AUX`

2447 AUX tokens (39% of all AUX tokens) have a non-empty value of Negative.

The most frequent other feature values with which AUX and Negative co-occurred: VerbForm=Fin (2447; 100%), Number=EMPTY (2419; 99%), Person=EMPTY (2419; 99%), Mood=Ind (2271; 93%), Voice=EMPTY (2183; 89%), Tense=EMPTY (2183; 89%).

AUX tokens may have the following values of Negative:

Neg (2447; 100% of non-empty Negative): ei, pole, poleks, ära, polnud, ärge, polegi, polevat, ärgem, polekski
EMPTY (3847): on, oli, võib, peaks, peab, saab, oleks, saa, võiks, olid

`VERB`

552 VERB tokens (2% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Negative.

The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Negative co-occurred: VerbForm=Fin (552; 100%), Voice=Act (551; 100%), Number=EMPTY (551; 100%), Person=EMPTY (551; 100%), Mood=Ind (529; 96%), Tense=Pres (455; 82%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Negative:

Neg (552; 100% of non-empty Negative): pole, polnud, poleks, polegi, polnudki, polekski, polevat, palutud, sure, tule
EMPTY (32905): on, oli, tuleb, ole, olnud, teha, ütles, olid, olla, oleks

`ADV`

358 ADV tokens (2% of all ADV tokens) have a non-empty value of Negative.

ADV tokens may have the following values of Negative:

Neg (358; 100% of non-empty Negative): mitte, ega
EMPTY (23325): ka, siis, nii, kas, juba, välja, veel, ära, kus, aga

`CONJ`

138 CONJ tokens (2% of all CONJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Negative.

CONJ tokens may have the following values of Negative:

Neg (138; 100% of non-empty Negative): ega
EMPTY (8272): ja, ning, aga, või, kuid, kui, vaid, ehk, ent, kuni

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Negative: whether the word can be or is negated