Gender

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`Gender`: gender

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for Gender.

Treebank Statistics (UD_Norwegian)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 3 different values: Fem, Masc, Neut. Some words have combined values of the feature; 1 combinations have been observed: Fem|Masc.

89456 tokens (29%) have a non-empty value of Gender. 20726 types (64%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Gender. 13975 lemmas (60%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Gender. The feature is used with 7 part-of-speech tags: NOUN (56308; 18% instances), DET (12359; 4% instances), PRON (10250; 3% instances), ADJ (7685; 2% instances), PROPN (2689; 1% instances), NUM (164; 0% instances), ADV (1; 0% instances).

`NOUN`

56308 NOUN tokens (98% of all NOUN tokens) have a non-empty value of Gender.

The most frequent other feature values with which NOUN and Gender co-occurred: Number=Sing (40153; 71%), Definite=Ind (36305; 64%).

NOUN tokens may have the following values of Gender:

Fem (7728; 14% of non-empty Gender): tid, kirke, kroner, kvinner, støtte, hjelp, uker, side, mor, endringer
Masc (31718; 56% of non-empty Gender): dag, prosent, gang, verden, del, grunn, saken, ganger, ting, millioner
Neut (16862; 30% of non-empty Gender): år, folk, land, barn, landet, mennesker, livet, spørsmål, forhold, tillegg
EMPTY (944): §, går, fjor, tros-, islam, vare, bord, dr., kong, stede

Paradigm råd	`Masc`	`Fem`	`Neut`
`_`	råd	råd
`Case=Gen\|Definite=Def\|Number=Sing`			rådets
`Definite=Def\|Number=Sing`			rådet
`Definite=Ind\|Number=Sing`			råd
`Definite=Ind\|Number=Plur`			råd

Gender seems to be lexical feature of NOUN. 94% lemmas (11544) occur only with one value of Gender.

`DET`

12359 DET tokens (75% of all DET tokens) have a non-empty value of Gender.

The most frequent other feature values with which DET and Gender co-occurred: Number=Sing (12359; 100%), Poss=EMPTY (10811; 87%), PronType=Art (6182; 50%).

DET tokens may have the following values of Gender:

Fem (496; 4% of non-empty Gender): den, vår, hans, ei, noen, all, denne, hver, egen, annen
Masc (7470; 60% of non-empty Gender): en, den, sin, denne, min, ingen, annen, hans, hver, egen
Neut (4393; 36% of non-empty Gender): et, det, noe, annet, sitt, dette, hvert, mitt, vårt, eget
EMPTY (4114): de, andre, alle, sine, noen, selv, disse, samme, våre, slike

Paradigm en	`Masc`	`Fem`	`Neut`
`Case=Gen`	ens
	en	ei	et, er, at, ett

`PRON`

10250 PRON tokens (43% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of Gender.

The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Gender co-occurred: Number=Sing (10250; 100%), Person=3 (10250; 100%), PronType=Prs (9839; 96%), Case=EMPTY (7107; 69%), Animacy=EMPTY (7107; 69%).

PRON tokens may have the following values of Gender:

Fem (898; 9% of non-empty Gender): hun, henne
Fem,Masc (548; 5% of non-empty Gender): den, noen, denne, ingen, enhver, der
Masc (2245; 22% of non-empty Gender): han, ham
Neut (6559; 64% of non-empty Gender): det, dette, noe, alt, slikt, sånt, intet, dét, et
EMPTY (13610): som, jeg, vi, de, seg, du, man, meg, hva, oss

Gender seems to be lexical feature of PRON. 100% lemmas (15) occur only with one value of Gender.

`ADJ`

7685 ADJ tokens (29% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Gender.

The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and Gender co-occurred: Number=Sing (7685; 100%), Definite=Ind (7684; 100%), Degree=Pos (7391; 96%).

ADJ tokens may have the following values of Gender:

Masc (3; 0% of non-empty Gender): antiautoritære, stor, straffet
Neut (7682; 100% of non-empty Gender): mye, helt, godt, litt, langt, samtidig, veldig, mulig, svært, lite
EMPTY (19124): mer, mange, flere, norske, første, store, nye, hele, siste, stor

Paradigm stor	`Masc`	`Neut`
	stor	stort

Gender seems to be lexical feature of ADJ. 100% lemmas (1366) occur only with one value of Gender.

`PROPN`

2689 PROPN tokens (15% of all PROPN tokens) have a non-empty value of Gender.

PROPN tokens may have the following values of Gender:

Fem (523; 19% of non-empty Gender): Kristin, Marit, Hanne, Hanna, Märtha, Gro, Ingrid, Maria, Marie, Anne
Masc (1931; 72% of non-empty Gender): Jan, Espen, Martin, Olav, Erik, Øyvind, Per, Kjell, Aftenposten, Sverre
Neut (235; 9% of non-empty Gender): Stortinget, Dagbladet, Fremskrittspartiet, Senterpartiet, Stortingets, Sørlandet, Internett, Barentshavet, Norden, Vestlandet
EMPTY (15571): Norge, Obama, Regjeringen, Oslo, USA, Den, Svalbard, Mayen, Cathrine, Bertelsen

Gender seems to be lexical feature of PROPN. 100% lemmas (364) occur only with one value of Gender.

`NUM`

164 NUM tokens (4% of all NUM tokens) have a non-empty value of Gender.

The most frequent other feature values with which NUM and Gender co-occurred: NumType=Card (164; 100%), Number=Sing (164; 100%).

NUM tokens may have the following values of Gender:

Fem (5; 3% of non-empty Gender): halvannen, annenhver
Masc (66; 40% of non-empty Gender): én, halvannen, annenhver, Èn
Neut (93; 57% of non-empty Gender): ett, halvannet, mangt, annethvert
EMPTY (3798): to, tre, fire, eneste, 2, fem, ti, 20, seks, 1

Paradigm halvannen	`Masc`	`Fem`	`Neut`
	halvannen	halvannen	halvannet

`ADV`

1 ADV tokens (0% of all ADV tokens) have a non-empty value of Gender.

ADV tokens may have the following values of Gender:

Masc (1; 100% of non-empty Gender): Jo
EMPTY (12667): ikke, også, så, nå, bare, her, da, selv, hvor, nok

Relations with Agreement in `Gender`

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Gender: NOUN –[det]–> DET (9303; 77%), NOUN –[nmod]–> DET (1513; 72%), ADJ –[expl]–> PRON (552; 90%), ADJ –[conj]–> ADJ (206; 79%), DET –[nmod]–> NOUN (133; 57%), NOUN –[neg]–> DET (118; 68%), NOUN –[acl]–> NOUN (65; 55%), PRON –[expl]–> PRON (48; 52%), PRON –[nsubj]–> PRON (31; 51%), PRON –[acl:relcl]–> ADJ (28; 72%).

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