Definite

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`Definite`: definiteness or state

Definiteness is relevant for determiners and verbs in Hungarian. Besides the values Def and Indef, we apply the value 2 for marking second person objects, which trigger special inflectional suffixes on the verb:

Szeret egy fiút. love-PRES-3SG-INDEF a boy-ACC “She loves a boy.”

Szereti a fiút. love-PRES-3SG-DEF the boy-ACC “She loves the boy.”

Szeretlek. love-PRES-1SG-2SGOBJ “I love you.”

Treebank Statistics (UD_Hungarian)

This feature is universal but the values 2 are language-specific. It occurs with 3 different values: 2, Def, Ind.

8683 tokens (21%) have a non-empty value of Definite. 2078 types (15%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Definite. 1148 lemmas (13%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Definite. The feature is used with 3 part-of-speech tags: hu-pos/DET (5160; 12% instances), hu-pos/VERB (3485; 8% instances), hu-pos/AUX (38; 0% instances).

`DET`

5160 hu-pos/DET tokens (98% of all DET tokens) have a non-empty value of Definite.

The most frequent other feature values with which DET and Definite co-occurred: PronType=Art (4936; 96%).

DET tokens may have the following values of Definite:

Def (4870; 94% of non-empty Definite): a, az, egyik, saját, mindkét, milyen, mindhárom, semmiféle, valamennyi
Ind (290; 6% of non-empty Definite): egy, több, minden, néhány, sok, más, másik, többek, semmi, kevesebb
EMPTY (115): ez, ezt, azt, ezen, ebben, ilyen, e, arra, az, azokat

Paradigm milyen	`Ind`	`Def`
	milyen	milyen

Definite seems to be lexical feature of DET. 93% lemmas (28) occur only with one value of Definite.

`VERB`

3485 hu-pos/VERB tokens (91% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Definite.

The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Definite co-occurred: VerbForm=Fin (3485; 100%), Voice=Act (3427; 98%), Person=3 (3283; 94%), Mood=Ind (2970; 85%), Number=Sing (2560; 73%), Tense=Pres (1800; 52%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Definite:

2 (1; 0% of non-empty Definite): nézlek
Def (1301; 37% of non-empty Definite): mondta, elmondta, jelentette, teszi, tette, tájékoztatta, közölte, szeretné, tudta, jelezte
Ind (2183; 63% of non-empty Definite): volt, kell, van, lehet, lesz, kellene, lenne, vannak, került, nincs
EMPTY (342): tudni, tartani, folytatni, látni, számítani, ellátni, hívni, kérni, lemondani, menni

Paradigm néz	`Ind`	`Def`	`2`
`Aspect=Freq\|Mood=Ind\|Number=Sing\|Person=3\|Tense=Past`		nézegette
`Mood=Ind\|Number=Sing\|Person=1\|Tense=Pres`		nézem	nézlek
`Mood=Ind\|Number=Plur\|Person=1\|Tense=Pres`		nézzük
`Mood=Ind\|Number=Plur\|Person=3\|Tense=Past`		nézték
`Mood=Pot\|Number=Plur\|Person=3\|Tense=Pres`	nézhetnek

`AUX`

38 hu-pos/AUX tokens (100% of all AUX tokens) have a non-empty value of Definite.

The most frequent other feature values with which AUX and Definite co-occurred: Person=3 (38; 100%), Tense=Pres (38; 100%), Voice=Act (38; 100%), Number=Sing (31; 82%), VerbForm=EMPTY (29; 76%).

AUX tokens may have the following values of Definite:

Def (8; 21% of non-empty Definite): fogja, fogják
Ind (30; 79% of non-empty Definite): volna, fog, fognak

Paradigm fog	`Ind`	`Def`
`Number=Sing\|VerbForm=Fin`	fog	fogja
`Number=Sing`	fog	fogja
`Number=Plur\|VerbForm=Fin`		fogják
`Number=Plur`	fognak	fogják

Relations with Agreement in `Definite`

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Definite: VERB –[conj]–> VERB (334; 56%), VERB –[advcl]–> VERB (134; 54%), VERB –[csubj]–> VERB (39; 71%), VERB –[parataxis]–> VERB (25; 54%), DET –[remnant]–> DET (23; 100%), VERB –[dobj]–> DET (4; 80%), VERB –[nmod]–> DET (4; 67%), VERB –[ccomp]–> AUX (3; 100%), VERB –[ccomp:obl]–> AUX (1; 100%), VERB –[nmod]–> VERB (1; 100%).

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Definite: definiteness or state