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Number: number

Number in French is either singular or plular. It occurs with nouns, adjectives, pronouns, determiners and verbs. It also occurs with some NUM which are abberviations for hours such as 00h30.

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Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 2 different values: Plur, Sing.

207475 tokens (52%) have a non-empty value of Number. 24291 types (57%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Number. 14389 lemmas (44%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Number. The feature is used with 8 part-of-speech tags: fr-pos/NOUN (74347; 18% instances), fr-pos/DET (61626; 15% instances), fr-pos/VERB (28769; 7% instances), fr-pos/ADJ (22708; 6% instances), fr-pos/PRON (11666; 3% instances), fr-pos/AUX (8348; 2% instances), fr-pos/NUM (10; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances).

NOUN

74347 fr-pos/NOUN tokens (99% of all NOUN tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

The most frequent other feature values with which NOUN and Number co-occurred: Gender=Masc (41322; 56%).

NOUN tokens may have the following values of Number:

• Plur (18569; 25% of non-empty Number): ans, années, pays, enfants, habitants, personnes, jours, droits, points, hommes
• Sing (55778; 75% of non-empty Number): ville, partie, nom, monde, région, commune, groupe, temps, famille, année
• EMPTY (411): A, Co., Company, League, Mt, Panther, Trail, blackface, facto, night

Paradigm année	Sing	Plur
	année	années

DET

61626 fr-pos/DET tokens (100% of all DET tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

The most frequent other feature values with which DET and Number co-occurred: PronType=Art (53346; 87%), Definite=Def (43253; 70%), Gender=Masc (32509; 53%).

DET tokens may have the following values of Number:

• Plur (14544; 24% of non-empty Number): les, des, ses, ces, de, plusieurs, leurs, tous, quelques, toutes
• Sing (47082; 76% of non-empty Number): le, la, l’, un, une, son, sa, cette, ce, leur
• EMPTY (140): the, de, d’, no, your, All, Il, las, His, Leur

Paradigm le	Sing	Plur
	l'
Gender=Masc|PronType=Art	le, l', l	les
Gender=Fem	la
Gender=Fem|PronType=Art	la, l', l, là	les, L
PronType=Art	l', L	les

VERB

28769 fr-pos/VERB tokens (79% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Number co-occurred: Gender=EMPTY (17492; 61%), VerbForm=Fin (17492; 61%), Mood=Ind (16941; 59%), Person=3 (16752; 58%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Number:

• Plur (5558; 19% of non-empty Number): sont, ont, étaient, font, prennent, trouvent, permettent, sommes, utilisés, appelés
• Sing (23211; 81% of non-empty Number): est, fait, a, était, né, située, situé, été, fut, trouve
• EMPTY (7432): faire, être, partir, voir, prendre, avoir, étant, mettre, passer, trouver

Paradigm être	Sing	Plur
Gender=Masc|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	été
Mood=Cnd|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	serais	serions
Mood=Cnd|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin		seriez
Mood=Cnd|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	serait	seraient
Mood=Imp|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin		soyez
Mood=Ind|Person=1|Tense=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	étais	étions
Mood=Ind|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	suis	sommes
Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Fut|VerbForm=Fin		serez
Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	es	êtes
Mood=Ind|Person=3|Tense=Fut|VerbForm=Fin	sera	seront
Mood=Ind|Person=3|Tense=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	était	étaient
Mood=Ind|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	fut	furent
Mood=Ind|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	est, esr	sont
Mood=Sub|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin		soyez
Mood=Sub|Person=3|Tense=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	fût
Mood=Sub|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	soit	soient

ADJ

22708 fr-pos/ADJ tokens (99% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and Number co-occurred: Gender=Masc (11997; 53%).

ADJ tokens may have the following values of Number:

• Plur (6228; 27% of non-empty Number): autres, nombreux, nombreuses, grands, premières, premiers, grandes, français, nouveaux, politiques
• Sing (16480; 73% of non-empty Number): première, premier, même, français, française, grande, grand, nouveau, autre, politique
• EMPTY (166): live, Blue, complete, American, Last, new, Black, Dead, Global, Globale

Paradigm premier	Sing	Plur
_	Premier
Gender=Masc	premier, 1er, Ier, 1e, Ie, 1	premiers
Gender=Fem	première, 1ère	premières

PRON

11666 fr-pos/PRON tokens (65% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Number co-occurred: Person=3 (8497; 73%), PronType=Prs (8071; 69%), Gender=Masc (6239; 53%).

PRON tokens may have the following values of Number:

• Plur (2053; 18% of non-empty Number): ils, nous, vous, autres, les, elles, ceux, eux, leur, tous
• Sing (9613; 82% of non-empty Number): il, elle, on, c’, lui, ce, je, le, l’, j’
• EMPTY (6363): qui, se, s’, dont, où, en, qu’, y, que, quoi

Paradigm il	Sing	Plur
Gender=Masc|Person=2	-Tu
Gender=Masc|Person=3	il, -il, Lui, t-il	ils, -ils
Gender=Masc	Lui
Gender=Fem|Person=3	-elle, elle	elles, -elles
Person=1	je
Person=2	tu

AUX

8348 fr-pos/AUX tokens (93% of all AUX tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

The most frequent other feature values with which AUX and Number co-occurred: VerbForm=Fin (7519; 90%), Mood=Ind (7123; 85%), Person=3 (7076; 85%), Tense=Pres (6294; 75%).

AUX tokens may have the following values of Number:

• Plur (1815; 22% of non-empty Number): sont, ont, peuvent, avons, furent, étaient, avaient, seront, auraient, vont
• Sing (6533; 78% of non-empty Number): a, est, été, peut, fut, avait, ai, était, doit, sera
• EMPTY (631): être, avoir, ayant, étant, pouvoir, pouvant, aller, vouloir, devant, Do

Paradigm être	Sing	Plur
Gender=Masc|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	été
Mood=Cnd|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	serais
Mood=Cnd|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	serait	seraient
Mood=Imp|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	sois
Mood=Ind|Person=1|Tense=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	étais	étions
Mood=Ind|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	suis	sommes
Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Fut|VerbForm=Fin		serez
Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin		êtes
Mood=Ind|Person=3|Tense=Fut|VerbForm=Fin	sera	seront
Mood=Ind|Person=3|Tense=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	était	étaient
Mood=Ind|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	fut	furent
Mood=Ind|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	est	sont, son
Mood=Sub|Person=3|Tense=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	fût
Mood=Sub|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	soit	soient

NUM

10 fr-pos/NUM tokens (0% of all NUM tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

NUM tokens may have the following values of Number:

• Plur (10; 100% of non-empty Number): 00H30, 12H30, 14h25, 15H00, 18h, 18h40, 20h40, 22h, 23h, 48H
• EMPTY (10654): deux, trois, 2, 3, 5, 4, quatre, 2010, 2009, 2008

Number seems to be lexical feature of NUM. 100% lemmas (10) occur only with one value of Number.

PROPN

1 fr-pos/PROPN tokens (0% of all PROPN tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

PROPN tokens may have the following values of Number:

• Sing (1; 100% of non-empty Number): mémorique
• EMPTY (30745): France, Paris, Europe, États-Unis, Jean, Maroc, État, la, Espagne, New

Relations with Agreement in Number

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Number: NOUN –[det]–> DET (49773; 100%), NOUN –[amod]–> ADJ (18333; 98%), NOUN –[nmod]–> NOUN (13154; 64%), VERB –[nmod]–> NOUN (10427; 59%), VERB –[nsubj]–> PRON (5544; 69%), VERB –[nsubj]–> NOUN (5072; 85%), NOUN –[conj]–> NOUN (4301; 81%), NOUN –[nmod:poss]–> DET (4283; 99%), VERB –[aux]–> AUX (3828; 65%), NOUN –[acl]–> VERB (3005; 71%).

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