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Degree: degree of comparison

Degree of comparison is used as an inflectional feature of some adjectives and adverbs.

Pos: positive, first degree

Not used.

Cmp: comparative, second degree

The quality of one object is compared to the same quality of another object.

Examples

Sup: superlative, third degree

The quality of one object is compared to the same quality of all other objects within a set.

Italian does not seem to have single words for ‘relative’ superlatives, such as [en] “youngest”. One would say instead:

Abs: absolute superlative

The quality of the given object is so strong that there is hardly any other object exceeding it. The quality is not actually compared to any particular set of objects.

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 2 different values: Abs, Cmp.

485 tokens (0%) have a non-empty value of Degree. 104 types (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Degree. 73 lemmas (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Degree. The feature is used with 6 part-of-speech tags: it-pos/ADJ (440; 0% instances), it-pos/ADV (19; 0% instances), it-pos/DET (13; 0% instances), it-pos/NOUN (10; 0% instances), it-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances), it-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances).

ADJ

440 it-pos/ADJ tokens (2% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Degree.

The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and Degree co-occurred: Gender=EMPTY (353; 80%), Number=Sing (346; 79%).

ADJ tokens may have the following values of Degree:

Degree seems to be lexical feature of ADJ. 100% lemmas (63) occur only with one value of Degree.

ADV

19 it-pos/ADV tokens (0% of all ADV tokens) have a non-empty value of Degree.

The most frequent other feature values with which ADV and Degree co-occurred: PronType=EMPTY (19; 100%).

ADV tokens may have the following values of Degree:

DET

13 it-pos/DET tokens (0% of all DET tokens) have a non-empty value of Degree.

The most frequent other feature values with which DET and Degree co-occurred: Definite=EMPTY (13; 100%), Number=Plur (12; 92%), PronType=Ind (12; 92%), Gender=Masc (10; 77%).

DET tokens may have the following values of Degree:

NOUN

10 it-pos/NOUN tokens (0% of all NOUN tokens) have a non-empty value of Degree.

The most frequent other feature values with which NOUN and Degree co-occurred: Gender=EMPTY (8; 80%).

NOUN tokens may have the following values of Degree:

PRON

2 it-pos/PRON tokens (0% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of Degree.

The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Degree co-occurred: Number=Plur (2; 100%), PronType=Ind (2; 100%), Person=EMPTY (2; 100%), Gender=Masc (2; 100%).

PRON tokens may have the following values of Degree:

PROPN

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

PROPN tokens may have the following values of Degree:


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