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ADJ: adjective

Description

Adjectives typically modify nouns. In Irish, the adjective follows the noun, and agrees in number, gender and case.

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)

There are 491 ADJ lemmas (12%), 620 ADJ types (10%) and 1176 ADJ tokens (5%). Out of 16 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: mór, maith, amháin, beag, céanna, áirithe, fada, léir, déanta, ceart

The 10 most frequent ADJ types: mó, maith, amháin, mór, fada, léir, áirithe, déanta, mhaith, beag

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: mór (ADJ 63, NOUN 1), maith (ADJ 52, NOUN 2), céanna (ADJ 24, NOUN 1), áirithe (ADJ 24, NOUN 1), déanta (ADJ 14, NOUN 1), ceart (ADJ 13, NOUN 11), bán (ADJ 9, NOUN 1), iomlán (ADJ 10, NOUN 3), óg (ADJ 10, NOUN 3), cóir (ADJ 8, NOUN 3)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: maith (ADJ 26, NOUN 1), fada (ADJ 17, NOUN 1), áirithe (ADJ 15, NOUN 1), bán (ADJ 5, NOUN 1), iomlán (ADJ 7, NOUN 1), chóir (ADJ 6, NOUN 2), ard (ADJ 3, NOUN 1), ceart (NOUN 6, ADJ 5), díreach (ADJ 5, NOUN 3), tugtha (ADJ 4, NOUN 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of ADJ is 1.262729 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.449988).

The 1st highest number of forms (10) was observed with the lemma “mór”: an-mhór, mhó, mhóir, mhór, mó, móide, mór, móra, ollmhór, ró-mhór.

The 2nd highest number of forms (5) was observed with the lemma “beag”: beag, beaga, bheag, lugha, lúide.

The 3rd highest number of forms (5) was observed with the lemma “maith”: fearr, fhearr, maith, maithe, mhaith.

ADJ occurs with 8 features: ga-feat/Degree (594; 51% instances), ga-feat/Number (419; 36% instances), ga-feat/Case (414; 35% instances), ga-feat/Gender (347; 30% instances), ga-feat/VerbForm (149; 13% instances), ga-feat/Form (86; 7% instances), ga-feat/NounType (69; 6% instances), ga-feat/PartType (5; 0% instances)

ADJ occurs with 17 feature-value pairs: Case=Com, Case=Gen, Degree=Cmp,Sup, Degree=Pos, Form=Ecl, Form=HPref, Form=Len, Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, NounType=NotSlender, NounType=Slender, NounType=Strong, NounType=Weak, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, PartType=Voc, VerbForm=Part

ADJ occurs with 27 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Degree=Pos (426 tokens). Examples: amháin, maith, léir, mór, áirithe, fada, mó, beag, céanna, náisiúnta

Relations

ADJ nodes are attached to their parents using 16 different relations: ga-dep/amod (692; 59% instances), ga-dep/xcomp:pred (190; 16% instances), ga-dep/advmod (102; 9% instances), ga-dep/root (60; 5% instances), ga-dep/conj (42; 4% instances), ga-dep/ccomp (31; 3% instances), ga-dep/advcl (17; 1% instances), ga-dep/compound (16; 1% instances), ga-dep/nsubj (8; 1% instances), ga-dep/nmod (7; 1% instances), ga-dep/acl:relcl (4; 0% instances), ga-dep/csubj:cop (2; 0% instances), ga-dep/xcomp (2; 0% instances), ga-dep/appos (1; 0% instances), ga-dep/foreign (1; 0% instances), ga-dep/name (1; 0% instances)

Parents of ADJ nodes belong to 10 different parts of speech: NOUN (715; 61% instances), VERB (279; 24% instances), ADJ (69; 6% instances), ROOT (60; 5% instances), PROPN (24; 2% instances), PRON (11; 1% instances), SCONJ (8; 1% instances), X (5; 0% instances), CONJ (3; 0% instances), ADV (2; 0% instances)

659 (56%) ADJ nodes are leaves.

281 (24%) ADJ nodes have one child.

99 (8%) ADJ nodes have two children.

137 (12%) ADJ nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a ADJ node is 8.

Children of ADJ nodes are attached using 28 different relations: ga-dep/mark:prt (177; 18% instances), ga-dep/nmod (136; 13% instances), ga-dep/cop (129; 13% instances), ga-dep/punct (116; 11% instances), ga-dep/nsubj (71; 7% instances), ga-dep/advmod (70; 7% instances), ga-dep/nmod:prep (47; 5% instances), ga-dep/conj (37; 4% instances), ga-dep/cc (33; 3% instances), ga-dep/amod (27; 3% instances), ga-dep/advcl (23; 2% instances), ga-dep/csubj:cop (23; 2% instances), ga-dep/mark (22; 2% instances), ga-dep/compound (18; 2% instances), ga-dep/ccomp (15; 1% instances), ga-dep/xcomp (15; 1% instances), ga-dep/foreign (11; 1% instances), ga-dep/case (10; 1% instances), ga-dep/det (8; 1% instances), ga-dep/csubj:cleft (7; 1% instances), ga-dep/acl:relcl (3; 0% instances), ga-dep/parataxis (3; 0% instances), ga-dep/compound:prt (2; 0% instances), ga-dep/nmod:tmod (2; 0% instances), ga-dep/dobj (1; 0% instances), ga-dep/nmod:poss (1; 0% instances), ga-dep/nummod (1; 0% instances), ga-dep/vocative (1; 0% instances)

Children of ADJ nodes belong to 14 different parts of speech: NOUN (261; 26% instances), VERB (185; 18% instances), PART (135; 13% instances), PUNCT (117; 12% instances), ADJ (69; 7% instances), ADV (64; 6% instances), ADP (59; 6% instances), CONJ (45; 4% instances), PRON (24; 2% instances), PROPN (17; 2% instances), X (13; 1% instances), SCONJ (12; 1% instances), DET (6; 1% instances), NUM (2; 0% instances)


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