Poss

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`Poss`: possessive

Boolean feature of pronouns or adjectives.It tells whether the word is possessive.

`Yes`: it is possessive

Examples

Possessive pronouns: La sua è migliore “Hers is better”, I suoi sono felici “Her/his [parents] are happy”
Possessive adjectives: La sua scuola è migliore “Her/his school is better”, I loro amici “Their friends”.

Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 1 different values: Yes.

1853 tokens (1%) have a non-empty value of Poss. 32 types (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Poss. 12 lemmas (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Poss. The feature is used with 3 part-of-speech tags: it-pos/DET (1819; 1% instances), it-pos/PRON (33; 0% instances), it-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances).

`DET`

1819 it-pos/DET tokens (4% of all DET tokens) have a non-empty value of Poss.

The most frequent other feature values with which DET and Poss co-occurred: Definite=EMPTY (1819; 100%), PronType=Prs (1819; 100%), Number=Sing (1112; 61%).

DET tokens may have the following values of Poss:

Yes (1819; 100% of non-empty Poss): sua, suo, loro, suoi, sue, proprio, nostra, mio, nostro, propria
EMPTY (45729): il, la, i, l’, le, un, gli, una, lo, quale

Poss seems to be lexical feature of DET. 100% lemmas (11) occur only with one value of Poss.

`PRON`

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

The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Poss co-occurred: PronType=Prs (33; 100%), Person=EMPTY (33; 100%), Number=Sing (23; 70%), Gender=Masc (22; 67%).

PRON tokens may have the following values of Poss:

Yes (33; 100% of non-empty Poss): sua, suo, suoi, proprio, tuo, mia, miei, mio, nostro, tua
EMPTY (11224): si, che, chi, cui, ci, lo, ne, qual, quanto, mi

`ADJ`

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

The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and Poss co-occurred: Gender=Fem (1; 100%), Number=Sing (1; 100%).

ADJ tokens may have the following values of Poss:

Yes (1; 100% of non-empty Poss): propria
EMPTY (18678): primo, prima, nuovo, grande, altri, presente, altro, stesso, comune, italiana

Relations with Agreement in `Poss`

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Poss: PRON –[conj]–> PRON (1; 100%).

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Poss: possessive

Yes: it is possessive