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Mood: mood

Mood is a feature that expresses modality and subclassifies finite verb forms.

Ind: indicative

The indicative can be considered the default mood. A verb in indicative merely states that something happens, has happened or will happen, without adding any attitude of the speaker.

Examples

Imp: imperative

The speaker uses imperative to order or ask the addressee to do the action of the verb.

Examples

Cnd: conditional

The conditional mood is used to express actions that would have taken place under some circumstances but they actually did not / do not happen.

Examples

Pot: potential

Not used.

Sub: subjunctive / conjunctive

The subjunctive mood is used under certain circumstances in subordinate clauses, typically for actions that are subjective or otherwise uncertain.

Examples

Jus: jussive

Not used.

Qot: quotative

Not used.

Opt: optative

Not used.

Des: desiderative

Not used.

Nec: necessitative

Not used.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 4 different values: Cnd, Imp, Ind, Sub.

20269 tokens (7%) have a non-empty value of Mood. 3682 types (13%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Mood. 1280 lemmas (7%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Mood. The feature is used with 2 part-of-speech tags: it-pos/VERB (13263; 5% instances), it-pos/AUX (7006; 2% instances).

VERB

13263 it-pos/VERB tokens (46% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Mood.

The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Mood co-occurred: VerbForm=Fin (13263; 100%), Gender=EMPTY (13263; 100%), Person=3 (11942; 90%), Tense=Pres (10490; 79%), Number=Sing (9639; 73%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Mood:

Paradigm essereIndImpCndSub
Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Futsarò
Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Imperofossi
Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pressonosarei
Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Futsarai
Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Presseisii
Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Futsarà
Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Imperafosse
Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pastfu
Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Presè, e', É, E’, E`sarebbesia
Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Futsaremo
Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Imperavamofossimo
Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pressiamosaremmo
Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Imperavate
Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pressiete
Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Futsaranno
Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Imperanofossero
Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pastfurono
Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pressono, Èsarebberosiano

AUX

7006 it-pos/AUX tokens (87% of all AUX tokens) have a non-empty value of Mood.

The most frequent other feature values with which AUX and Mood co-occurred: VerbForm=Fin (7006; 100%), Person=3 (6489; 93%), Tense=Pres (6034; 86%), Number=Sing (4868; 69%).

AUX tokens may have the following values of Mood:

Paradigm dovereIndImpCndSub
Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Presdevo, debboDovrei
Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=ImpDovevi
Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Presdevidevidovresti
Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Futdovrà
Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Impdovevadovesse
Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pastdovette
Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Presdeve, dev'dovrebbedebba
Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Futdovremo
Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Presdobbiamodovremmo
Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Futdovrete
Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Presdovete
Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Futdovranno
Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Impdovevanodovessero
Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Presdevono, debbonodovrebberodebbano

Relations with Agreement in Mood

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Mood: VERB –[conj]–> VERB (795; 64%), AUX –[conj]–> AUX (3; 100%).


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