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ADJ: adjective

Adjectives are words that typically modify nouns and specify their properties or attributes.

UD Finnish annotation follows VISK in assigning pro-adjectives the ADJ tag (e.g. tämä/PRON “this” → tällainen/ADJ “like this”; see e.g. VISK § 610; in Finnish).

Examples

References


Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish)

There are 2440 ADJ lemmas (10%), 5890 ADJ types (12%) and 12846 ADJ tokens (7%). Out of 15 observed tags, the rank of ADJ is: 3 in number of lemmas, 3 in number of types and 5 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent ADJ lemmas: hyvä, uusi, suuri, oma, ensimmäinen, pieni, sellainen, koko, tärkeä, toinen

The 10 most frequent ADJ types: koko, eri, viime, hyvä, arvoisa, ensimmäinen, uusi, uuden, 1., ensimmäisen

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: hyvä (ADJ 387, ADV 1, NOUN 1), suuri (ADJ 276, ADV 2), oma (ADJ 240, NOUN 1), ensimmäinen (ADJ 217, NOUN 2), pieni (ADJ 168, NOUN 1), koko (ADJ 141, NOUN 12), toinen (PRON 171, ADJ 136, NOUN 36), usea (ADJ 107, PRON 4), seuraava (ADJ 90, NOUN 2), tällainen (ADJ 85, NOUN 2)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: koko (ADJ 130, NOUN 3), 1. (ADJ 57, NUM 1), suurin (ADJ 29, ADV 1), useita (ADJ 40, PRON 3), toisen (ADJ 29, PRON 23), uusia (ADJ 34, VERB 2), toinen (PRON 28, ADJ 20, NOUN 3), omaa (ADJ 27, VERB 2), suomalainen (ADJ 21, NOUN 2), I (ADJ 26, PROPN 3, X 2)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of ADJ is 2.413934 (the average of all parts of speech is 2.036755).

The 1st highest number of forms (50) was observed with the lemma “hyvä”: hyvien, hyvillä, hyviltä, hyvinä, hyvissä, hyviä, hyvä, hyväksi, hyvälle, hyvällä, hyvältä, hyvän, hyvänä, hyvässä, hyvästä, hyvät, hyvää, hyvääkin, hyvään, paras, parasta, paremmaksi, paremmalle, paremmalta, paremman, paremmasta, paremmat, parempaa, parempaakaan, parempaakin, parempaan, parempana, parempi, parempia, parempiakaan, parhaaksi, parhaalla, parhaan, parhaani, parhaansa, parhaaseen, parhaasta, parhaat, parhaiden, parhaimmat, parhaimpia, parhaimpina, parhaisiin, parhaista, parhaita.

The 2nd highest number of forms (45) was observed with the lemma “suuri”: Suurimmalle, suureen, suureksi, suurella, suurelle, suurelta, suuremman, suuremmasta, suuremmat, suuremmissa, suurempa, suurempaa, suurempi, suurempia, suuren, suurena, suuressa, suuresta, suuret, suuri, suuria, suurien, suuriin, suurikin, suurilta, suurimmaksi, suurimmalla, suurimmalta, suurimman, suurimmassa, suurimmasta, suurimmat, suurimmissa, suurimmista, suurimpaan, suurimpana, suurimpia, suurimpiin, suurin, suurinta, suurissa, suurista, suurta, suurtakaan, suurten.

The 3rd highest number of forms (35) was observed with the lemma “pieni”: Pienemmän, Pienenä, Pienillä, Pienistä, pieneen, pieneksi, pienellä, pienelläkään, pieneltä, pienemmiksi, pienemmissä, pienemmällä, pienemmät, pienempi, pienempiin, pienempiä, pienen, pienessä, pienestä, pienet, pieni, pieniksi, pienille, pienimmistä, pienimmän, pienimmässä, pienimmästäkin, pienin, pienintäkään, pieninä, pienissä, pieniä, pienten, pientä, pinemmiksi.

ADJ occurs with 11 features: fi-feat/Case (11911; 93% instances), fi-feat/Number (11883; 93% instances), fi-feat/Degree (11248; 88% instances), fi-feat/NumType (1065; 8% instances), fi-feat/Derivation (185; 1% instances), fi-feat/Clitic (69; 1% instances), fi-feat/Style (44; 0% instances), fi-feat/Person[psor] (42; 0% instances), fi-feat/Typo (31; 0% instances), fi-feat/Number[psor] (13; 0% instances), fi-feat/Abbr (11; 0% instances)

ADJ occurs with 36 feature-value pairs: Abbr=Yes, Case=Abl, Case=Ade, Case=All, Case=Com, Case=Ela, Case=Ess, Case=Gen, Case=Ill, Case=Ine, Case=Ins, Case=Nom, Case=Par, Case=Tra, Clitic=Han, Clitic=Kaan, Clitic=Kin, Clitic=Ko, Clitic=Pa, Degree=Cmp, Degree=Pos, Degree=Sup, Derivation=Inen, Derivation=Lainen, Derivation=Llinen, Derivation=Ton, NumType=Ord, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, Number[psor]=Plur, Number[psor]=Sing, Person[psor]=1, Person[psor]=2, Person[psor]=3, Style=Coll, Typo=Yes

ADJ occurs with 249 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Case=Nom|Degree=Pos|Number=Sing (2530 tokens). Examples: hyvä, arvoisa, uusi, pieni, suuri, oma, tärkeä, suomalainen, vaikea, vanha

Relations

ADJ nodes are attached to their parents using 29 different relations: fi-dep/amod (8782; 68% instances), fi-dep/root (867; 7% instances), fi-dep/conj (692; 5% instances), fi-dep/nummod (534; 4% instances), fi-dep/nmod (511; 4% instances), fi-dep/xcomp (404; 3% instances), fi-dep/compound (241; 2% instances), fi-dep/advcl (162; 1% instances), fi-dep/ccomp (150; 1% instances), fi-dep/dobj (113; 1% instances), fi-dep/acl:relcl (78; 1% instances), fi-dep/nsubj (74; 1% instances), fi-dep/name (64; 0% instances), fi-dep/appos (32; 0% instances), fi-dep/nmod:poss (30; 0% instances), fi-dep/parataxis (20; 0% instances), fi-dep/advmod (18; 0% instances), fi-dep/nsubj:cop (16; 0% instances), fi-dep/mwe (10; 0% instances), fi-dep/remnant (10; 0% instances), fi-dep/compound:nn (8; 0% instances), fi-dep/det (5; 0% instances), fi-dep/nmod:gobj (5; 0% instances), fi-dep/nmod:own (5; 0% instances), fi-dep/xcomp:ds (5; 0% instances), fi-dep/csubj (3; 0% instances), fi-dep/csubj:cop (3; 0% instances), fi-dep/compound:prt (2; 0% instances), fi-dep/discourse (2; 0% instances)

Parents of ADJ nodes belong to 13 different parts of speech: NOUN (9381; 73% instances), VERB (1361; 11% instances), ROOT (867; 7% instances), ADJ (774; 6% instances), PROPN (246; 2% instances), ADV (94; 1% instances), PRON (58; 0% instances), NUM (37; 0% instances), X (20; 0% instances), SYM (5; 0% instances), ADP (1; 0% instances), INTJ (1; 0% instances), PUNCT (1; 0% instances)

9553 (74%) ADJ nodes are leaves.

1343 (10%) ADJ nodes have one child.

476 (4%) ADJ nodes have two children.

1474 (11%) ADJ nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a ADJ node is 14.

Children of ADJ nodes are attached using 36 different relations: fi-dep/punct (1651; 17% instances), fi-dep/cop (1337; 14% instances), fi-dep/advmod (1292; 13% instances), fi-dep/nsubj:cop (969; 10% instances), fi-dep/conj (735; 8% instances), fi-dep/nmod (685; 7% instances), fi-dep/cc (625; 7% instances), fi-dep/nmod:poss (501; 5% instances), fi-dep/advcl (396; 4% instances), fi-dep/mark (229; 2% instances), fi-dep/amod (210; 2% instances), fi-dep/xcomp:ds (138; 1% instances), fi-dep/neg (120; 1% instances), fi-dep/csubj:cop (111; 1% instances), fi-dep/aux (92; 1% instances), fi-dep/det (86; 1% instances), fi-dep/ccomp (61; 1% instances), fi-dep/parataxis (58; 1% instances), fi-dep/acl:relcl (40; 0% instances), fi-dep/appos (36; 0% instances), fi-dep/nummod (34; 0% instances), fi-dep/discourse (29; 0% instances), fi-dep/acl (21; 0% instances), fi-dep/xcomp (19; 0% instances), fi-dep/cc:preconj (17; 0% instances), fi-dep/compound:nn (14; 0% instances), fi-dep/compound (13; 0% instances), fi-dep/name (11; 0% instances), fi-dep/case (10; 0% instances), fi-dep/remnant (9; 0% instances), fi-dep/vocative (7; 0% instances), fi-dep/dep (5; 0% instances), fi-dep/mwe (5; 0% instances), fi-dep/nsubj (5; 0% instances), fi-dep/goeswith (2; 0% instances), fi-dep/dobj (1; 0% instances)

Children of ADJ nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: VERB (2313; 24% instances), NOUN (1798; 19% instances), PUNCT (1653; 17% instances), ADV (1314; 14% instances), ADJ (774; 8% instances), CONJ (619; 6% instances), PRON (471; 5% instances), SCONJ (224; 2% instances), PROPN (203; 2% instances), AUX (94; 1% instances), NUM (54; 1% instances), SYM (33; 0% instances), ADP (12; 0% instances), INTJ (9; 0% instances), X (3; 0% instances)


Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish-FTB)

There are 2312 ADJ lemmas (11%), 5232 ADJ types (12%) and 10494 ADJ tokens (7%). Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of ADJ is: 4 in number of lemmas, 3 in number of types and 5 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent ADJ lemmas: hyvä, oma, uusi, suuri, koko, suomalainen, pieni, vanha, ensimmäinen, nuori

The 10 most frequent ADJ types: koko, hyvä, viime, ensi, hyvää, uusi, oma, ensimmäinen, uutta, uuden

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: hyvä (ADJ 333, NOUN 1), koko (ADJ 192, NOUN 12), nuori (ADJ 130, PROPN 1), sellainen (DET 84, ADJ 71), toinen (PRON 180, DET 97, ADJ 67), punainen (ADJ 31, PROPN 3), turha (ADJ 31, NOUN 1), vapaa (ADJ 25, NOUN 5), semmoinen (DET 68, ADJ 24), tuttu (ADJ 17, NOUN 9)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: koko (ADJ 173, NOUN 1), ensi (ADJ 61, ADV 1), sellainen (ADJ 21, DET 19), sellaista (ADJ 19, DET 8), toinen (PRON 38, DET 19, ADJ 10), toisen (DET 12, ADJ 8, PRON 3), toista (ADJ 13, PRON 7, DET 5), riittävän (ADJ 10, VERB 2), halvalla (ADJ 9, ADV 1), kovaa (ADJ 9, ADV 3)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of ADJ is 2.262976 (the average of all parts of speech is 2.044212).

The 1st highest number of forms (42) was observed with the lemma “suuri”: Suuriko, Suurimpia, suureen, suureks, suureksi, suurella, suurelle, suurelta, suuremmalla, suuremman, suuremmat, suuremmilla, suuremmitta, suurempaa, suurempana, suurempi, suurempia, suurempiakin, suurempiin, suuren, suurena, suuressa, suuresta, suuret, suuri, suuria, suuriakin, suuriin, suuriksi, suurille, suurimmaksi, suurimmalla, suurimman, suurimmat, suurimmista, suurimpien, suurin, suurinta, suurissa, suurista, suurta, suurten.

The 2nd highest number of forms (37) was observed with the lemma “pieni”: Pienimmäksi, Pieninkin, Pientenkin, pieneen, pieneks, pieneksi, pienelle, pienellä, pienemmäksi, pienemmältä, pienemmässä, pienempi, pienempiä, pienempiään, pienempää, pienen, pienenä, pienessä, pienestä, pienesä, pienet, pienetkin, pieni, pieniin, pienijä, pieniksi, pienille, pienillä, pienimmät, pienimpien, pienin, pieninä, pienistä, pieniä, pienten, pientä, piänenä.

The 3rd highest number of forms (36) was observed with the lemma “oma”: Omapa, oma, omaa, omaan, omakseen, omaksesi, omaksi, omalla, omalle, omalta, oman, omana, omani, omansa, omassa, omasta, omat, omatkin, omia, omiaan, omiani, omien, omii, omiin, omiini, omilla, omille, omilleen, omimmassa, omin, omine, omis, omissa, omista, omistaki, ommoo.

ADJ occurs with 10 features: fi-feat/Case (10066; 96% instances), fi-feat/Number (10056; 96% instances), fi-feat/Degree (870; 8% instances), fi-feat/NumType (300; 3% instances), fi-feat/PronType (292; 3% instances), fi-feat/Style (204; 2% instances), fi-feat/Clitic (110; 1% instances), fi-feat/Person[psor] (58; 1% instances), fi-feat/Number[psor] (27; 0% instances), fi-feat/Abbr (1; 0% instances)

ADJ occurs with 36 feature-value pairs: Abbr=Yes, Case=Abe, Case=Abl, Case=Ade, Case=All, Case=Com, Case=Ela, Case=Ess, Case=Gen, Case=Ill, Case=Ine, Case=Ins, Case=Nom, Case=Par, Case=Tra, Clitic=Han, Clitic=Kaan, Clitic=Kin, Clitic=Ko, Clitic=Pa, Clitic=S, Degree=Cmp, Degree=Sup, NumType=Ord, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, Number[psor]=Plur, Number[psor]=Sing, Person[psor]=1, Person[psor]=2, Person[psor]=3, PronType=Dem, PronType=Ind, PronType=Int, PronType=Rel, Style=Coll

ADJ occurs with 254 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Case=Nom|Number=Sing (2767 tokens). Examples: hyvä, uusi, oma, suuri, ainoa, pieni, vaikea, vanha, iso, nuori

Relations

ADJ nodes are attached to their parents using 25 different relations: fi-dep/amod (6625; 63% instances), fi-dep/root (1577; 15% instances), fi-dep/nmod (732; 7% instances), fi-dep/conj (648; 6% instances), fi-dep/nsubj (242; 2% instances), fi-dep/dobj (186; 2% instances), fi-dep/advcl (182; 2% instances), fi-dep/ccomp (115; 1% instances), fi-dep/acl (68; 1% instances), fi-dep/nsubj:cop (42; 0% instances), fi-dep/nmod:own (14; 0% instances), fi-dep/xcomp (12; 0% instances), fi-dep/csubj:cop (9; 0% instances), fi-dep/mwe (8; 0% instances), fi-dep/compound:prt (7; 0% instances), fi-dep/csubj (7; 0% instances), fi-dep/nmod:gobj (5; 0% instances), fi-dep/expl (3; 0% instances), fi-dep/name (3; 0% instances), fi-dep/advmod (2; 0% instances), fi-dep/dep (2; 0% instances), fi-dep/xcomp:ds (2; 0% instances), fi-dep/goeswith (1; 0% instances), fi-dep/nmod:gsubj (1; 0% instances), fi-dep/vocative (1; 0% instances)

Parents of ADJ nodes belong to 13 different parts of speech: NOUN (5992; 57% instances), ROOT (1577; 15% instances), VERB (1530; 15% instances), ADJ (990; 9% instances), PROPN (151; 1% instances), ADV (114; 1% instances), NUM (75; 1% instances), PRON (46; 0% instances), DET (7; 0% instances), X (6; 0% instances), PART (3; 0% instances), ADP (2; 0% instances), INTJ (1; 0% instances)

6080 (58%) ADJ nodes are leaves.

1807 (17%) ADJ nodes have one child.

737 (7%) ADJ nodes have two children.

1870 (18%) ADJ nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a ADJ node is 11.

Children of ADJ nodes are attached using 30 different relations: fi-dep/cop (1875; 17% instances), fi-dep/punct (1820; 16% instances), fi-dep/advmod (1537; 14% instances), fi-dep/nsubj:cop (1252; 11% instances), fi-dep/nmod (961; 9% instances), fi-dep/conj (723; 6% instances), fi-dep/cc (533; 5% instances), fi-dep/amod (485; 4% instances), fi-dep/advcl (419; 4% instances), fi-dep/acl (339; 3% instances), fi-dep/mark (281; 2% instances), fi-dep/det (229; 2% instances), fi-dep/neg (168; 1% instances), fi-dep/csubj:cop (155; 1% instances), fi-dep/aux (150; 1% instances), fi-dep/xcomp:ds (119; 1% instances), fi-dep/case (44; 0% instances), fi-dep/nummod (44; 0% instances), fi-dep/expl (35; 0% instances), fi-dep/discourse (23; 0% instances), fi-dep/dep (22; 0% instances), fi-dep/nmod:own (18; 0% instances), fi-dep/nsubj (14; 0% instances), fi-dep/csubj (11; 0% instances), fi-dep/compound:nn (4; 0% instances), fi-dep/vocative (4; 0% instances), fi-dep/dobj (2; 0% instances), fi-dep/goeswith (2; 0% instances), fi-dep/mwe (2; 0% instances), fi-dep/reparandum (2; 0% instances)

Children of ADJ nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: VERB (3181; 28% instances), PUNCT (1820; 16% instances), NOUN (1681; 15% instances), ADJ (990; 9% instances), PART (849; 8% instances), ADV (762; 7% instances), PRON (596; 5% instances), CONJ (533; 5% instances), DET (259; 2% instances), SCONJ (252; 2% instances), PROPN (213; 2% instances), NUM (50; 0% instances), ADP (47; 0% instances), X (21; 0% instances), INTJ (19; 0% instances)


ADJ in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]