ADJ

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`ADJ`: adjective

Description

Adjectives typically modify nouns. In Basque, the adjective follows the noun, although some of them precede it.

Examples

Following the noun: etxe handia “big house”
Preceding the noun: goiko etxea “the upper house”

Treebank Statistics (UD_Basque)

There are 1145 ADJ lemmas (10%), 2518 ADJ types (10%) and 5973 ADJ tokens (5%). Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of ADJ is: 3 in number of lemmas, 4 in number of types and 7 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent ADJ lemmas: handi, on, nagusi, berri, bakar, politiko, oso, garrantzitsu, batu, txiki

The 10 most frequent ADJ types: handia, ona, bakarra, nagusia, zaila, berria, onena, hurrengo, nagusi, berri

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: handi (ADJ 311, NOUN 4), on (ADJ 212, NOUN 5), nagusi (ADJ 181, NOUN 9), berri (ADJ 135, NOUN 29), bakar (ADJ 88, NOUN 3), politiko (ADJ 88, NOUN 4), oso (ADV 246, ADJ 82), batu (ADJ 72, VERB 15, NOUN 1), txiki (ADJ 66, NOUN 2), gogor (ADJ 51, ADV 30, NOUN 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: nagusia (ADJ 50, NOUN 1), berria (ADJ 43, NOUN 5), hurrengo (ADJ 28, ADV 5), nagusi (ADJ 38, NOUN 5), berri (ADJ 34, NOUN 18), nazioarteko (ADJ 15, NOUN 3), berriak (ADJ 23, NOUN 3), politiko (ADJ 24, NOUN 3), bizi (ADJ 22, NOUN 17), olinpiar (ADJ 4, NOUN 2)

nagusia
- ADJ 50: Arabiera da Jordaniako hizkuntza nagusia .
- NOUN 1: Azken Frantziako Kopa ukanen dute jokoan , eta txapeldunak heldu den sasoian Europako Kopa nagusia jokatzeko txartela bereganatuko du .
berria
- ADJ 43: Mexikon gobernatzeko “ era berria “ martxan jarriko duela agindu du .
- NOUN 5: BBCko web orrian ere jasotzen da berria .
hurrengo
- ADJ 28: Garaileak Fernadoren aurka jokatu beharko du hurrengo kanporaketa .
- ADV 5: Sendoagoa izan zen hurrengo hirukotearen ahalegina :
nagusi
- ADJ 38: Lesioak izango ditu aurkari nagusi .
- NOUN 5: 1986an Kasparov nagusi izan zen berriro ( 12,5-11,5 ) .
berri
- ADJ 34: Pinochetek 85 urte bete berri ditu .
- NOUN 18: Beste 45 bidaiariei buruz berri garbi-garbirik ez zegoen .
nazioarteko
- ADJ 15: Tratamendu zabala eman diote nazioarteko hedabideetan .
- NOUN 3: AIk exijituko du aldaketak nazioarteko arautegiaren barruan egiteko .
berriak
- ADJ 23: Landare zaharrean puja berriak sortuz berrituko da .
- NOUN 3: Iturri horrek ukatu egin zituen egunkari batek kaleratutako berriak .
politiko
- ADJ 24: 518 ordezkari joango dira , euskal preso politiko bakoitzeko bana .
- NOUN 3: IPAR IRLANDAKO politiko nazionalista eta unionistek gaitzetsi zuten atentatua .
bizi
- ADJ 22: MIARRITZEN bizi da , Maltan jaio zen eta eskoziarra da .
- NOUN 17: - Eskerrak ez nintzen garai hartan bizi izan !
olinpiar
- ADJ 4: Atlantan eta Sydneyn , laugarren eta seigarren izatea , olinpiar diploma irabaziz , postu duinak dira .
- NOUN 2: Almudena Cid gazteiztarrak bere bigarren olinpiar finala jokatuko du gaur .

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of ADJ is 2.199127 (the average of all parts of speech is 2.169707).

The 1st highest number of forms (41) was observed with the lemma “handi”: handi, handia, handiagatik, handiagoa, handiagoak, handiagoarekin, handiagoaren, handiagoetan, handiagoko, handiagora, handiak, handian, handiarekin, handiegi, handiegia, handiek, handiekin, handien, handiena, handienak, handienaz, handienek, handieneko, handienetariko, handiengatik, handietako, handietan, handiko, handikoak, handikoen, handikotzat, handirentzat, handirik, handitan, handitarako, handiz, haundi, haundia, haundiagoa, haundiagoak, haundirik.

The 2nd highest number of forms (23) was observed with the lemma “nagusi”: Nagusira, nagusi, nagusia, nagusiak, nagusian, nagusiarekin, nagusiaren, nagusiari, nagusiei, nagusiek, nagusien, nagusiena, nagusienak, nagusienen, nagusienetakoa, nagusietako, nagusietakoa, nagusietan, nagusietarik, nagusiko, nagusitarako, nagusitik, nagusitzat.

The 3rd highest number of forms (23) was observed with the lemma “on”: Onerako, on, ona, onak, onarekin, onari, onaz, onean, oneko, onena, onenak, onenaren, onenean, onenei, onenek, onenekin, onenen, onenetakoa, onenetan, onera, onetik, onez, onik.

ADJ occurs with 5 features: eu-feat/Case (4703; 79% instances), eu-feat/Definite (4579; 77% instances), eu-feat/Number (3853; 65% instances), eu-feat/Degree (441; 7% instances), eu-feat/Animacy (9; 0% instances)

ADJ occurs with 23 feature-value pairs: Animacy=Inan, Case=Abl, Case=Abs, Case=All, Case=Ben, Case=Cau, Case=Com, Case=Dat, Case=Erg, Case=Ess, Case=Gen, Case=Ine, Case=Ins, Case=Lat, Case=Loc, Case=Par, Definite=Def, Definite=Ind, Degree=Abs, Degree=Cmp, Degree=Sup, Number=Plur, Number=Sing

ADJ occurs with 91 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Sing (1597 tokens). Examples: handia, ona, bakarra, nagusia, zaila, berria, garrantzitsua, osoa, berezia, bikaina

Relations

ADJ nodes are attached to their parents using 22 different relations: eu-dep/amod (3579; 60% instances), eu-dep/nmod (799; 13% instances), eu-dep/root (383; 6% instances), eu-dep/conj (281; 5% instances), eu-dep/nsubj (249; 4% instances), eu-dep/xcomp (108; 2% instances), eu-dep/ccomp (100; 2% instances), eu-dep/dobj (94; 2% instances), eu-dep/det (81; 1% instances), eu-dep/compound (73; 1% instances), eu-dep/advcl (66; 1% instances), eu-dep/name (40; 1% instances), eu-dep/acl (36; 1% instances), eu-dep/dep (21; 0% instances), eu-dep/appos (15; 0% instances), eu-dep/iobj (13; 0% instances), eu-dep/mwe (13; 0% instances), eu-dep/csubj (10; 0% instances), eu-dep/discourse (5; 0% instances), eu-dep/advmod (4; 0% instances), eu-dep/cop (2; 0% instances), eu-dep/mark (1; 0% instances)

Parents of ADJ nodes belong to 16 different parts of speech: NOUN (4111; 69% instances), VERB (1086; 18% instances), ROOT (383; 6% instances), ADJ (161; 3% instances), PROPN (101; 2% instances), ADV (35; 1% instances), ADP (26; 0% instances), CONJ (19; 0% instances), NUM (14; 0% instances), DET (13; 0% instances), PUNCT (8; 0% instances), AUX (5; 0% instances), PRON (5; 0% instances), X (4; 0% instances), PART (1; 0% instances), SYM (1; 0% instances)

4513 (76%) ADJ nodes are leaves.

699 (12%) ADJ nodes have one child.

284 (5%) ADJ nodes have two children.

477 (8%) ADJ nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a ADJ node is 11.

Children of ADJ nodes are attached using 21 different relations: eu-dep/cop (684; 23% instances), eu-dep/punct (616; 21% instances), eu-dep/nsubj (399; 13% instances), eu-dep/nmod (315; 10% instances), eu-dep/advmod (246; 8% instances), eu-dep/conj (144; 5% instances), eu-dep/case (132; 4% instances), eu-dep/cc (127; 4% instances), eu-dep/csubj (98; 3% instances), eu-dep/amod (40; 1% instances), eu-dep/det (40; 1% instances), eu-dep/acl (35; 1% instances), eu-dep/nummod (25; 1% instances), eu-dep/advcl (23; 1% instances), eu-dep/dobj (18; 1% instances), eu-dep/dep (15; 0% instances), eu-dep/aux (11; 0% instances), eu-dep/name (11; 0% instances), eu-dep/xcomp (10; 0% instances), eu-dep/ccomp (8; 0% instances), eu-dep/neg (7; 0% instances)

Children of ADJ nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: VERB (854; 28% instances), PUNCT (616; 21% instances), NOUN (461; 15% instances), ADV (256; 9% instances), PROPN (214; 7% instances), ADJ (161; 5% instances), CONJ (134; 4% instances), ADP (132; 4% instances), DET (93; 3% instances), NUM (44; 1% instances), PRON (15; 0% instances), AUX (11; 0% instances), PART (9; 0% instances), X (3; 0% instances), INTJ (1; 0% instances)