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NOUN: noun

Definition

Nouns are a part of speech typically denoting a person, place, thing, animal or idea. Common nouns are tagged as NOUN.

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

There are 9724 NOUN lemmas (27%), 12573 NOUN types (27%) and 74758 NOUN tokens (19%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of NOUN is: 2 in number of lemmas, 2 in number of types and 1 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent NOUN lemmas: année, an, ville, partie, commune, nom, pays, région, groupe, monde

The 10 most frequent NOUN types: ans, ville, pays, partie, nom, monde, fois, région, commune, temps

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: monde (NOUN 258, PROPN 1), jour (NOUN 229, PROPN 1), droit (NOUN 210, ADJ 30, PROPN 1), fin (NOUN 197, ADJ 8, ADV 1), point (NOUN 177, ADV 4), personne (NOUN 160, PRON 12), enfant (NOUN 149, ADJ 1), début (NOUN 146, ADV 2, ADP 1), fait (NOUN 141, ADJ 2), université (NOUN 121, PROPN 6)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: ans (NOUN 344, CONJ 1), partie (NOUN 264, VERB 1), monde (NOUN 244, PROPN 1), commune (NOUN 231, ADJ 9), groupe (NOUN 215, VERB 4), fin (NOUN 188, ADJ 2), place (NOUN 184, VERB 9), titre (NOUN 153, VERB 1), fait (VERB 442, NOUN 127, AUX 1), début (NOUN 124, ADV 2, ADP 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of NOUN is 1.292986 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.307036).

The 1st highest number of forms (14) was observed with the lemma “m”: 120km, bunodontum, limbum, m, nm, onm, pistum, pm, pom-pom, prism, rhythm, team, tétraméthylammonium, verbum.

The 2nd highest number of forms (6) was observed with the lemma “Monsieur”: M., Mme, Mr., madame, mademoiselle, monsieur.

The 3rd highest number of forms (6) was observed with the lemma “œuvre”: chef-d’œuvre, main-d’œuvre, manœuvre, oeuvre, œuvre, œuvres.

NOUN occurs with 5 features: fr-feat/Number (74347; 99% instances), fr-feat/Gender (74266; 99% instances), fr-feat/Case (4; 0% instances), fr-feat/Tense (3; 0% instances), fr-feat/PronType (2; 0% instances)

NOUN occurs with 11 feature-value pairs: Case=Abl, Case=Acc, Case=Nom, Case=Voc, Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, Gender=Neut, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, PronType=Art, Tense=Past

NOUN occurs with 17 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Gender=Masc|Number=Sing (30194 tokens). Examples: nom, monde, groupe, temps, siècle, pays, lieu, homme, juin, film

Relations

NOUN nodes are attached to their parents using 27 different relations: fr-dep/nmod (40964; 55% instances), fr-dep/dobj (10326; 14% instances), fr-dep/nsubj (8070; 11% instances), fr-dep/conj (6110; 8% instances), fr-dep/root (2899; 4% instances), fr-dep/appos (2512; 3% instances), fr-dep/nsubjpass (1708; 2% instances), fr-dep/compound (575; 1% instances), fr-dep/mwe (489; 1% instances), fr-dep/xcomp (474; 1% instances), fr-dep/acl:relcl (102; 0% instances), fr-dep/ccomp (91; 0% instances), fr-dep/case (75; 0% instances), fr-dep/name (74; 0% instances), fr-dep/advcl (70; 0% instances), fr-dep/dep (70; 0% instances), fr-dep/parataxis (56; 0% instances), fr-dep/amod (38; 0% instances), fr-dep/advmod (19; 0% instances), fr-dep/acl (11; 0% instances), fr-dep/nummod (9; 0% instances), fr-dep/goeswith (7; 0% instances), fr-dep/mark (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/csubj (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/det (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/foreign (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/nmod:poss (1; 0% instances)

Parents of NOUN nodes belong to 18 different parts of speech: VERB (36603; 49% instances), NOUN (29180; 39% instances), ROOT (2899; 4% instances), ADJ (2251; 3% instances), PROPN (2002; 3% instances), PRON (759; 1% instances), ADP (440; 1% instances), SYM (198; 0% instances), NUM (188; 0% instances), ADV (104; 0% instances), X (66; 0% instances), DET (28; 0% instances), INTJ (20; 0% instances), AUX (9; 0% instances), CONJ (4; 0% instances), SCONJ (4; 0% instances), PUNCT (2; 0% instances), PART (1; 0% instances)

2743 (4%) NOUN nodes are leaves.

15473 (21%) NOUN nodes have one child.

22987 (31%) NOUN nodes have two children.

33555 (45%) NOUN nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a NOUN node is 56.

Children of NOUN nodes are attached using 36 different relations: fr-dep/det (50213; 26% instances), fr-dep/case (40887; 21% instances), fr-dep/nmod (30664; 16% instances), fr-dep/amod (18833; 10% instances), fr-dep/punct (12679; 7% instances), fr-dep/conj (6073; 3% instances), fr-dep/appos (4903; 3% instances), fr-dep/nummod (4579; 2% instances), fr-dep/acl (4315; 2% instances), fr-dep/cc (4313; 2% instances), fr-dep/nmod:poss (4313; 2% instances), fr-dep/cop (2875; 1% instances), fr-dep/nsubj (2791; 1% instances), fr-dep/acl:relcl (2555; 1% instances), fr-dep/advmod (1262; 1% instances), fr-dep/compound (545; 0% instances), fr-dep/neg (330; 0% instances), fr-dep/advcl (226; 0% instances), fr-dep/mark (198; 0% instances), fr-dep/name (184; 0% instances), fr-dep/ccomp (142; 0% instances), fr-dep/mwe (125; 0% instances), fr-dep/parataxis (122; 0% instances), fr-dep/aux (91; 0% instances), fr-dep/dep (42; 0% instances), fr-dep/iobj (38; 0% instances), fr-dep/expl (34; 0% instances), fr-dep/dobj (26; 0% instances), fr-dep/csubj (18; 0% instances), fr-dep/xcomp (13; 0% instances), fr-dep/discourse (11; 0% instances), fr-dep/goeswith (5; 0% instances), fr-dep/auxpass (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/nsubjpass (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/foreign (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/vocative (1; 0% instances)

Children of NOUN nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: DET (54461; 28% instances), ADP (40621; 21% instances), NOUN (29180; 15% instances), ADJ (19024; 10% instances), PUNCT (12674; 7% instances), PROPN (11563; 6% instances), VERB (10340; 5% instances), NUM (6861; 4% instances), CONJ (3986; 2% instances), ADV (2112; 1% instances), PRON (1628; 1% instances), X (283; 0% instances), SCONJ (246; 0% instances), SYM (192; 0% instances), PART (128; 0% instances), AUX (98; 0% instances), INTJ (18; 0% instances)


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