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NOUN: noun

Nouns inflect for case and number and denote things such as people, places, things, animals and ideas.

Proper nouns are not annotated as NOUN but rather PROPN.

Examples

References

Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish)

There are 12623 NOUN lemmas (50%), 25049 NOUN types (49%) and 50779 NOUN tokens (28%). Out of 15 observed tags, the rank of NOUN is: 1 in number of lemmas, 1 in number of types and 1 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent NOUN lemmas: vuosi, aika, päivä, osa, maa, komissio, mies, artikla, asia, yli#opisto

The 10 most frequent NOUN types: vuonna, vuoden, komission, päivänä, yliopiston, huomioon, mies, yhteisön, prosenttia, artiklan

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: aika (NOUN 444, ADV 37), kohta (NOUN 140, ADV 8, SCONJ 1), maailma (NOUN 124, PROPN 1), kerta (NOUN 83, ADV 2), puoli (NOUN 74, NUM 22), EY (NOUN 63, PROPN 1), a (NOUN 30, X 3, PROPN 1), suomalainen (ADJ 77, NOUN 47), presidentti (NOUN 44, ADJ 1), soveltaa (VERB 92, NOUN 40)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: ajan (NOUN 83, VERB 1), aikaa (NOUN 68, ADV 4), aikaan (NOUN 54, ADV 7), aika (NOUN 40, ADV 35), a (NOUN 30, X 3, PROPN 1), toimia (NOUN 27, VERB 18), puolella (NOUN 26, NUM 1), b (NOUN 21, PROPN 1), asiassa (NOUN 20, ADV 16), vallan (NOUN 18, ADV 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of NOUN is 1.984394 (the average of all parts of speech is 2.036755).

The 1st highest number of forms (30) was observed with the lemma “aika”: Aikamme, aika, aikaa, aikaakaan, aikaan, aikaani, aikaansa, aikana, aikanaan, aikanamme, aikani, aikansa, aikasi, aikoihin, aikoina, aikoinaan, aikoja, aikojen, ajaksi, ajalla, ajallaan, ajalta, ajan, ajas, ajassa, ajasta, ajastaan, ajat, ajoiksi, ajoista.

The 2nd highest number of forms (30) was observed with the lemma “lapsi”: -lasten, Lapsina, lapsella, lapselle, lapselleni, lapsemme, lapsen, lapsena, lapseni, lapsenne, lapsensa, lapsessa, lapsesta, lapset, lapsi, lapsia, lapsiin, lapsille, lapsilleen, lapsillenne, lapsista, lapsistaan, lapsistani, lasta, lastaan, lastamme, lasten, lasten-, lasteni, lastensa.

The 3rd highest number of forms (30) was observed with the lemma “mies”: Mieskin, mieheensä, mieheksi, miehelle, miehelleen, miehellä, mieheltä, mieheltäni, miehen, mieheni, miehenikin, miehensä, miehensäkään, miehenä, miehestä, miehestäni, miehestään, miehet, miehille, miehistä, miehiä, miehiään, mies, mieshän, miesten, miesten-, miestenkin, miestä, miestäni, miestään.

NOUN occurs with 10 features: fi-feat/Case (50719; 100% instances), fi-feat/Number (50684; 100% instances), fi-feat/Person[psor] (2407; 5% instances), fi-feat/Derivation (1498; 3% instances), fi-feat/Number[psor] (838; 2% instances), fi-feat/Abbr (556; 1% instances), fi-feat/Clitic (221; 0% instances), fi-feat/Typo (147; 0% instances), fi-feat/Style (126; 0% instances), fi-feat/Degree (2; 0% instances)

NOUN occurs with 38 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, Degree=Pos, Derivation=Inen, Derivation=Ja, Derivation=Lainen, Derivation=Minen, Derivation=Tar, Derivation=Ton, Derivation=U, Derivation=Vs, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, Number[psor]=Plur, Number[psor]=Sing, Person[psor]=1, Person[psor]=2, Person[psor]=3, Style=Arch, Style=Coll, Typo=Yes

NOUN occurs with 310 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Case=Nom|Number=Sing (9339 tokens). Examples: mies, artikla, komissio, osa, asia, puhemies, jäsen, määrä, professori, aika

Relations

NOUN nodes are attached to their parents using 36 different relations: fi-dep/nmod (17120; 34% instances), fi-dep/dobj (8096; 16% instances), fi-dep/nsubj (6951; 14% instances), fi-dep/nmod:poss (6447; 13% instances), fi-dep/conj (3823; 8% instances), fi-dep/root (1876; 4% instances), fi-dep/nsubj:cop (1739; 3% instances), fi-dep/nmod:gobj (1220; 2% instances), fi-dep/compound:nn (819; 2% instances), fi-dep/appos (476; 1% instances), fi-dep/compound (421; 1% instances), fi-dep/nmod:gsubj (364; 1% instances), fi-dep/advcl (293; 1% instances), fi-dep/remnant (241; 0% instances), fi-dep/xcomp:ds (185; 0% instances), fi-dep/xcomp (136; 0% instances), fi-dep/ccomp (108; 0% instances), fi-dep/acl:relcl (94; 0% instances), fi-dep/vocative (81; 0% instances), fi-dep/nmod:own (69; 0% instances), fi-dep/parataxis (65; 0% instances), fi-dep/name (37; 0% instances), fi-dep/nummod (28; 0% instances), fi-dep/amod (20; 0% instances), fi-dep/advmod (14; 0% instances), fi-dep/goeswith (12; 0% instances), fi-dep/case (10; 0% instances), fi-dep/mwe (10; 0% instances), fi-dep/compound:prt (6; 0% instances), fi-dep/det (5; 0% instances), fi-dep/cc (3; 0% instances), fi-dep/csubj (3; 0% instances), fi-dep/csubj:cop (3; 0% instances), fi-dep/discourse (2; 0% instances), fi-dep/acl (1; 0% instances), fi-dep/cc:preconj (1; 0% instances)

Parents of NOUN nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: VERB (28749; 57% instances), NOUN (15726; 31% instances), ROOT (1876; 4% instances), ADJ (1798; 4% instances), PROPN (1110; 2% instances), ADV (634; 1% instances), NUM (429; 1% instances), PRON (324; 1% instances), SYM (57; 0% instances), X (41; 0% instances), ADP (13; 0% instances), PUNCT (12; 0% instances), AUX (4; 0% instances), CONJ (3; 0% instances), INTJ (3; 0% instances)

19161 (38%) NOUN nodes are leaves.

19493 (38%) NOUN nodes have one child.

6887 (14%) NOUN nodes have two children.

5238 (10%) NOUN nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a NOUN node is 40.

Children of NOUN nodes are attached using 39 different relations: fi-dep/nmod:poss (9099; 16% instances), fi-dep/amod (8406; 15% instances), fi-dep/punct (4471; 8% instances), fi-dep/conj (3843; 7% instances), fi-dep/nmod (3842; 7% instances), fi-dep/nummod (3376; 6% instances), fi-dep/acl (3042; 5% instances), fi-dep/cc (2962; 5% instances), fi-dep/det (2899; 5% instances), fi-dep/advmod (2334; 4% instances), fi-dep/case (1990; 4% instances), fi-dep/acl:relcl (1419; 3% instances), fi-dep/nmod:gobj (1349; 2% instances), fi-dep/cop (1301; 2% instances), fi-dep/nsubj:cop (1163; 2% instances), fi-dep/appos (890; 2% instances), fi-dep/nmod:gsubj (497; 1% instances), fi-dep/compound (489; 1% instances), fi-dep/compound:nn (379; 1% instances), fi-dep/mark (344; 1% instances), fi-dep/remnant (240; 0% instances), fi-dep/advcl (181; 0% instances), fi-dep/parataxis (162; 0% instances), fi-dep/ccomp (124; 0% instances), fi-dep/neg (111; 0% instances), fi-dep/xcomp:ds (87; 0% instances), fi-dep/cc:preconj (84; 0% instances), fi-dep/aux (77; 0% instances), fi-dep/discourse (52; 0% instances), fi-dep/name (31; 0% instances), fi-dep/dobj (27; 0% instances), fi-dep/csubj:cop (19; 0% instances), fi-dep/xcomp (16; 0% instances), fi-dep/goeswith (12; 0% instances), fi-dep/compound:prt (11; 0% instances), fi-dep/vocative (9; 0% instances), fi-dep/mwe (8; 0% instances), fi-dep/nsubj (5; 0% instances), fi-dep/dep (1; 0% instances)

Children of NOUN nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: NOUN (15726; 28% instances), ADJ (9381; 17% instances), VERB (6510; 12% instances), PUNCT (4475; 8% instances), PRON (4291; 8% instances), PROPN (3747; 7% instances), NUM (3169; 6% instances), CONJ (2993; 5% instances), ADV (2443; 4% instances), ADP (1960; 4% instances), SCONJ (339; 1% instances), SYM (138; 0% instances), X (80; 0% instances), AUX (77; 0% instances), INTJ (23; 0% instances)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish-FTB)

There are 11138 NOUN lemmas (51%), 20510 NOUN types (46%) and 37036 NOUN tokens (23%). Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of NOUN is: 1 in number of lemmas, 1 in number of types and 2 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent NOUN lemmas: vuosi, asia, mies, aika, lapsi, ihminen, päivä, työ, nainen, auto

The 10 most frequent NOUN types: mies, vuoden, vuotta, asia, aikaa, äiti, vuonna, kertaa, osa, markkaa

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: aika (NOUN 328, PART 64), äiti (NOUN 180, PROPN 1), kerta (NOUN 162, PART 2), maa (NOUN 154, PROPN 3), maailma (NOUN 95, PROPN 2), loppu (NOUN 62, ADJ 1, ADV 1), lehti (NOUN 57, PROPN 2), puoli (NUM 89, NOUN 42), pankki (NOUN 35, PROPN 5), raja (NOUN 30, PROPN 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: aikaa (NOUN 94, ADP 1), kertaa (NOUN 68, VERB 1), kerran (NOUN 52, PART 11), ajan (NOUN 51, ADP 21, VERB 1), aikaan (NOUN 44, ADP 6), aika (PART 63, NOUN 36), työ (NOUN 28, PRON 5), tavalla (NOUN 33, ADP 1), tapauksessa (NOUN 30, ADP 1), vuosi (NOUN 22, VERB 2)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of NOUN is 1.841444 (the average of all parts of speech is 2.044212).

The 1st highest number of forms (37) was observed with the lemma “lapsi”: Lapsella, Lapsestakin, Lapsiinhan, lapselle, lapselleen, lapsen, lapsena, lapseni, lapsenne, lapsensa, lapsessa, lapsesta, lapset, lapsetkin, lapsi, lapsia, lapsijakkiihan, lapsikaan, lapsikin, lapsil, lapsilla, lapsillakin, lapsille, lapsilleen, lapsillenne, lapsillensa, lapsilta, lapsina, lapsineen, lapsineni, lapsissa, lapsista, lapsistaan, lasta, lastani, lasten, lastensa.

The 2nd highest number of forms (33) was observed with the lemma “käsi”: kädelleen, kädellä, kädellään, käden, kädessä, kädessään, kädestä, kädet, käsi, käsiini, käsiinsä, käsilhää, käsilläni, käsillään, käsin, käsis, käsissä, käsissämme, käsistä, käsistään, käsiä, käsiäni, käsiään, käteen, käteenne, käteensä, käteni, kätenne, kätensä, kätesä, kättä, kättäni, kättään.

The 3rd highest number of forms (30) was observed with the lemma “mies”: Miehenkin, Mieshän, mieheen, mieheksi, miehelle, miehellä, mieheltä, mieheltään, miehen, mieheni, miehensä, miehenä, miehes, miehestä, miehet, miehetkin, miehiksi, miehille, miehillä, miehiltä, miehinä, miehistä, miehiä, mies, mieskin, miesten, miestä, miestäsi, miestään, miäs.

NOUN occurs with 8 features: fi-feat/Case (37036; 100% instances), fi-feat/Number (36961; 100% instances), fi-feat/Person[psor] (2129; 6% instances), fi-feat/Number[psor] (675; 2% instances), fi-feat/Clitic (354; 1% instances), fi-feat/Style (291; 1% instances), fi-feat/Abbr (196; 1% instances), fi-feat/Degree (9; 0% instances)

NOUN occurs with 35 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=Han,Kin, Clitic=Kaan, Clitic=Kaan,Ko, Clitic=Kin, Clitic=Kin,Ko, Clitic=Ko, Clitic=Ko,S, Clitic=Pa, Degree=Cmp, Degree=Sup, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, Number[psor]=Plur, Number[psor]=Sing, Person[psor]=1, Person[psor]=2, Person[psor]=3, Style=Arch, Style=Coll

NOUN occurs with 247 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Case=Nom|Number=Sing (8523 tokens). Examples: mies, asia, äiti, osa, lapsi, nainen, kello, isä, tyttö, presidentti

Relations

NOUN nodes are attached to their parents using 26 different relations: fi-dep/nmod (16150; 44% instances), fi-dep/nsubj (6866; 19% instances), fi-dep/dobj (6371; 17% instances), fi-dep/root (2510; 7% instances), fi-dep/conj (1940; 5% instances), fi-dep/nsubj:cop (1557; 4% instances), fi-dep/compound:nn (346; 1% instances), fi-dep/advcl (289; 1% instances), fi-dep/nmod:gobj (225; 1% instances), fi-dep/compound:prt (181; 0% instances), fi-dep/ccomp (103; 0% instances), fi-dep/nmod:own (98; 0% instances), fi-dep/nmod:gsubj (82; 0% instances), fi-dep/acl (75; 0% instances), fi-dep/vocative (67; 0% instances), fi-dep/mwe (66; 0% instances), fi-dep/name (22; 0% instances), fi-dep/discourse (19; 0% instances), fi-dep/advmod (17; 0% instances), fi-dep/dep (17; 0% instances), fi-dep/xcomp (12; 0% instances), fi-dep/csubj:cop (8; 0% instances), fi-dep/csubj (7; 0% instances), fi-dep/goeswith (5; 0% instances), fi-dep/cop (2; 0% instances), fi-dep/aux (1; 0% instances)

Parents of NOUN nodes belong to 14 different parts of speech: VERB (24146; 65% instances), NOUN (7431; 20% instances), ROOT (2510; 7% instances), ADJ (1681; 5% instances), PROPN (476; 1% instances), ADV (343; 1% instances), PRON (277; 1% instances), NUM (108; 0% instances), ADP (20; 0% instances), DET (18; 0% instances), INTJ (10; 0% instances), X (8; 0% instances), PART (7; 0% instances), PUNCT (1; 0% instances)

13411 (36%) NOUN nodes are leaves.

12948 (35%) NOUN nodes have one child.

6907 (19%) NOUN nodes have two children.

3770 (10%) NOUN nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a NOUN node is 16.

Children of NOUN nodes are attached using 36 different relations: fi-dep/punct (9942; 24% instances), fi-dep/nmod (6702; 16% instances), fi-dep/amod (6022; 14% instances), fi-dep/det (3279; 8% instances), fi-dep/acl (2236; 5% instances), fi-dep/conj (2160; 5% instances), fi-dep/case (1938; 5% instances), fi-dep/advmod (1647; 4% instances), fi-dep/cc (1595; 4% instances), fi-dep/nummod (1552; 4% instances), fi-dep/cop (1464; 4% instances), fi-dep/nsubj:cop (1063; 3% instances), fi-dep/mark (565; 1% instances), fi-dep/nmod:gobj (264; 1% instances), fi-dep/neg (189; 0% instances), fi-dep/dep (126; 0% instances), fi-dep/aux (114; 0% instances), fi-dep/advcl (113; 0% instances), fi-dep/nmod:gsubj (101; 0% instances), fi-dep/xcomp:ds (84; 0% instances), fi-dep/mwe (76; 0% instances), fi-dep/compound:nn (72; 0% instances), fi-dep/csubj:cop (65; 0% instances), fi-dep/discourse (38; 0% instances), fi-dep/expl (30; 0% instances), fi-dep/dobj (22; 0% instances), fi-dep/nmod:own (22; 0% instances), fi-dep/nsubj (20; 0% instances), fi-dep/reparandum (9; 0% instances), fi-dep/vocative (8; 0% instances), fi-dep/ccomp (6; 0% instances), fi-dep/goeswith (5; 0% instances), fi-dep/csubj (4; 0% instances), fi-dep/compound:prt (3; 0% instances), fi-dep/appos (2; 0% instances), fi-dep/compound (1; 0% instances)

Children of NOUN nodes belong to 16 different parts of speech: PUNCT (9942; 24% instances), NOUN (7431; 18% instances), ADJ (5992; 14% instances), VERB (4366; 11% instances), DET (3475; 8% instances), ADP (1947; 5% instances), PROPN (1879; 5% instances), CONJ (1606; 4% instances), NUM (1580; 4% instances), PART (935; 2% instances), ADV (883; 2% instances), PRON (836; 2% instances), SCONJ (468; 1% instances), X (151; 0% instances), INTJ (37; 0% instances), SYM (11; 0% instances)

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