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ADJ: adjective

Definition

Adjectives are words that typically modify nouns and specify their properties or attributes. Adjectives in French agree in gender and number with the noun they modify (both in attributive and predicative position).

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

There are 3741 ADJ lemmas (10%), 5811 ADJ types (12%) and 22874 ADJ tokens (6%). Out of 17 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: premier, français, grand, autre, nouveau, même, seul, dernier, ancien, nombreux

The 10 most frequent ADJ types: première, premier, français, autres, même, française, grande, grand, nouveau, autre

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: premier (ADJ 658, NUM 36, NOUN 33, PRON 1), français (ADJ 471, NOUN 72), grand (ADJ 422, NOUN 3), autre (ADJ 387, PRON 113, NOUN 51), nouveau (ADJ 364, NOUN 2), même (ADJ 280, ADV 223, PRON 1), seul (ADJ 221, NOUN 4, ADV 1), dernier (ADJ 215, NOUN 107, PRON 5), ancien (ADJ 213, NOUN 7), petit (ADJ 208, NOUN 9, ADV 6)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: première (ADJ 243, NOUN 26, NUM 23), premier (ADJ 252, NUM 36, NOUN 20), français (ADJ 248, NOUN 44), autres (ADJ 248, PRON 67, NOUN 27), même (ADJ 245, ADV 209), française (ADJ 197, NOUN 1, PROPN 1), autre (ADJ 137, PRON 46, NOUN 24), politique (ADJ 122, NOUN 57), nouvelle (ADJ 109, NOUN 13), dernier (ADJ 111, NOUN 61, PRON 3)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of ADJ is 1.553328 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.307036).

The 1st highest number of forms (10) was observed with the lemma “premier”: 1, 1e, 1er, 1ère, Ie, Ier, premier, premiers, première, premières.

The 2nd highest number of forms (6) was observed with the lemma “blanc”: blanc, blanca, blanche, blanches, blancs, blanque.

The 3rd highest number of forms (6) was observed with the lemma “professionnel”: pro, professionel, professionnel, professionnelle, professionnelles, professionnels.

ADJ occurs with 4 features: fr-feat/Number (22708; 99% instances), fr-feat/Gender (22699; 99% instances), fr-feat/NumType (198; 1% instances), fr-feat/Degree (1; 0% instances)

ADJ occurs with 7 feature-value pairs: Degree=Cmp, Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, Gender=Neut, NumType=Ord, Number=Plur, Number=Sing

ADJ occurs with 11 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Gender=Masc|Number=Sing (8487 tokens). Examples: premier, français, grand, nouveau, même, dernier, seul, ancien, américain, petit

Relations

ADJ nodes are attached to their parents using 23 different relations: fr-dep/amod (19609; 86% instances), fr-dep/conj (1191; 5% instances), fr-dep/root (959; 4% instances), fr-dep/xcomp (373; 2% instances), fr-dep/ccomp (118; 1% instances), fr-dep/advcl (116; 1% instances), fr-dep/acl:relcl (107; 0% instances), fr-dep/mwe (92; 0% instances), fr-dep/acl (61; 0% instances), fr-dep/case (45; 0% instances), fr-dep/parataxis (44; 0% instances), fr-dep/nmod (40; 0% instances), fr-dep/appos (34; 0% instances), fr-dep/compound (16; 0% instances), fr-dep/dobj (15; 0% instances), fr-dep/advmod (14; 0% instances), fr-dep/mark (12; 0% instances), fr-dep/nsubj (11; 0% instances), fr-dep/name (8; 0% instances), fr-dep/det (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/goeswith (3; 0% instances), fr-dep/nsubjpass (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/nummod (1; 0% instances)

Parents of ADJ nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: NOUN (19024; 83% instances), ADJ (1031; 5% instances), ROOT (959; 4% instances), VERB (890; 4% instances), PROPN (728; 3% instances), PRON (95; 0% instances), ADP (74; 0% instances), NUM (25; 0% instances), ADV (22; 0% instances), SYM (8; 0% instances), X (8; 0% instances), INTJ (4; 0% instances), DET (3; 0% instances), PART (2; 0% instances), SCONJ (1; 0% instances)

18494 (81%) ADJ nodes are leaves.

1516 (7%) ADJ nodes have one child.

986 (4%) ADJ nodes have two children.

1878 (8%) ADJ nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a ADJ node is 22.

Children of ADJ nodes are attached using 34 different relations: fr-dep/punct (2257; 17% instances), fr-dep/advmod (1984; 15% instances), fr-dep/cop (1509; 12% instances), fr-dep/nsubj (1478; 11% instances), fr-dep/nmod (1476; 11% instances), fr-dep/conj (1338; 10% instances), fr-dep/cc (1083; 8% instances), fr-dep/det (334; 3% instances), fr-dep/neg (256; 2% instances), fr-dep/case (228; 2% instances), fr-dep/acl (212; 2% instances), fr-dep/mark (207; 2% instances), fr-dep/advcl (149; 1% instances), fr-dep/aux (107; 1% instances), fr-dep/mwe (72; 1% instances), fr-dep/parataxis (69; 1% instances), fr-dep/amod (54; 0% instances), fr-dep/appos (44; 0% instances), fr-dep/ccomp (30; 0% instances), fr-dep/expl (21; 0% instances), fr-dep/iobj (21; 0% instances), fr-dep/dep (15; 0% instances), fr-dep/csubj (13; 0% instances), fr-dep/nsubjpass (12; 0% instances), fr-dep/dobj (10; 0% instances), fr-dep/name (10; 0% instances), fr-dep/xcomp (10; 0% instances), fr-dep/compound (9; 0% instances), fr-dep/nummod (9; 0% instances), fr-dep/acl:relcl (5; 0% instances), fr-dep/discourse (5; 0% instances), fr-dep/nmod:poss (5; 0% instances), fr-dep/auxpass (3; 0% instances), fr-dep/goeswith (2; 0% instances)

Children of ADJ nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: PUNCT (2257; 17% instances), NOUN (2251; 17% instances), VERB (2201; 17% instances), ADV (2083; 16% instances), CONJ (1047; 8% instances), ADJ (1031; 8% instances), PRON (646; 5% instances), DET (367; 3% instances), ADP (330; 3% instances), PROPN (267; 2% instances), SCONJ (213; 2% instances), PART (134; 1% instances), AUX (111; 1% instances), NUM (56; 0% instances), SYM (28; 0% instances), X (8; 0% instances), INTJ (7; 0% instances)


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