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ADJ: adjective

Definition

Adjectives are words that typically modify nouns and specify their properties or attributes. In Norwegian, adjectives agree with their head in gender, number and definiteness: stort hus “big house”, store hus “big houses”, det store huset “the big house”.

Examples

Treebank Statistics (UD_Norwegian)

There are 3519 ADJ lemmas (14%), 4908 ADJ types (14%) and 26809 ADJ tokens (9%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of ADJ is: 3 in number of lemmas, 3 in number of types and 5 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent ADJ lemmas: mye, mange, god, stor, ny, hel, norsk, liten, første, lang

The 10 most frequent ADJ types: mer, mange, flere, norske, mye, første, store, nye, hele, helt

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: norsk (ADJ 498, NOUN 18, PROPN 1), sist (ADJ 233, ADV 22), litt (ADJ 231, X 1), lenge (ADJ 171, ADV 1), rett (ADJ 131, NOUN 94), (VERB 949, AUX 250, ADJ 98), amerikansk (ADJ 94, NOUN 1), øke (VERB 108, ADJ 74), hard (ADJ 71, X 1), lav (ADJ 70, NOUN 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: hele (ADJ 222, NOUN 1), helt (ADJ 221, NOUN 3), litt (ADJ 227, X 1), norsk (ADJ 141, NOUN 18), bedre (ADJ 138, VERB 9), gode (ADJ 104, NOUN 4), rett (ADJ 87, NOUN 34), videre (ADJ 84, ADV 1), (VERB 292, AUX 80, ADJ 69), nytt (ADJ 72, NOUN 2, VERB 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of ADJ is 1.394714 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.382778).

The 1st highest number of forms (9) was observed with the lemma “liten”: lille, lite, liten, mindre, minst, minste, små, smått, vesle.

The 2nd highest number of forms (8) was observed with the lemma “lang”: lang, lange, langt, lenge, lenger, lengre, lengst, lengste.

The 3rd highest number of forms (7) was observed with the lemma “gammel”: eldre, eldres, eldst, eldste, gamle, gammel, gammelt.

ADJ occurs with 6 features: no-feat/Degree (24744; 92% instances), no-feat/Number (22540; 84% instances), no-feat/Definite (18059; 67% instances), no-feat/Gender (7685; 29% instances), no-feat/VerbForm (1832; 7% instances), no-feat/Case (38; 0% instances)

ADJ occurs with 11 feature-value pairs: Case=Gen, Definite=Def, Definite=Ind, Degree=Cmp, Degree=Pos, Degree=Sup, Gender=Masc, Gender=Neut, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, VerbForm=Part

ADJ occurs with 29 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Definite=Ind|Degree=Pos|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing (7388 tokens). Examples: mye, helt, godt, litt, langt, samtidig, veldig, mulig, svært, lite

Relations

ADJ nodes are attached to their parents using 24 different relations: no-dep/amod (13907; 52% instances), no-dep/advmod (5970; 22% instances), no-dep/root (2071; 8% instances), no-dep/conj (1345; 5% instances), no-dep/xcomp (1282; 5% instances), no-dep/nsubj (504; 2% instances), no-dep/dobj (341; 1% instances), no-dep/ccomp (279; 1% instances), no-dep/acl:relcl (274; 1% instances), no-dep/advcl (248; 1% instances), no-dep/name (178; 1% instances), no-dep/acl (113; 0% instances), no-dep/appos (58; 0% instances), no-dep/csubj (44; 0% instances), no-dep/det (40; 0% instances), no-dep/nsubjpass (40; 0% instances), no-dep/remnant (37; 0% instances), no-dep/dislocated (24; 0% instances), no-dep/nmod (16; 0% instances), no-dep/compound (14; 0% instances), no-dep/iobj (12; 0% instances), no-dep/parataxis (8; 0% instances), no-dep/goeswith (3; 0% instances), no-dep/discourse (1; 0% instances)

Parents of ADJ nodes belong to 14 different parts of speech: NOUN (14482; 54% instances), VERB (5847; 22% instances), ADJ (3152; 12% instances), ROOT (2071; 8% instances), PROPN (527; 2% instances), ADV (214; 1% instances), PRON (189; 1% instances), NUM (108; 0% instances), ADP (90; 0% instances), DET (90; 0% instances), SCONJ (34; 0% instances), INTJ (3; 0% instances), CONJ (1; 0% instances), X (1; 0% instances)

18125 (68%) ADJ nodes are leaves.

3558 (13%) ADJ nodes have one child.

1431 (5%) ADJ nodes have two children.

3695 (14%) ADJ nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a ADJ node is 17.

Children of ADJ nodes are attached using 29 different relations: no-dep/advmod (3981; 16% instances), no-dep/punct (3766; 15% instances), no-dep/cop (3251; 13% instances), no-dep/nsubj (2465; 10% instances), no-dep/nmod (2422; 10% instances), no-dep/cc (1472; 6% instances), no-dep/conj (1443; 6% instances), no-dep/mark (872; 4% instances), no-dep/advcl (837; 3% instances), no-dep/det (785; 3% instances), no-dep/case (770; 3% instances), no-dep/expl (613; 2% instances), no-dep/csubj (555; 2% instances), no-dep/neg (412; 2% instances), no-dep/aux (361; 1% instances), no-dep/parataxis (201; 1% instances), no-dep/acl:relcl (140; 1% instances), no-dep/amod (92; 0% instances), no-dep/dobj (86; 0% instances), no-dep/nummod (66; 0% instances), no-dep/acl (53; 0% instances), no-dep/appos (38; 0% instances), no-dep/remnant (29; 0% instances), no-dep/discourse (22; 0% instances), no-dep/xcomp (13; 0% instances), no-dep/ccomp (7; 0% instances), no-dep/compound (6; 0% instances), no-dep/name (5; 0% instances), no-dep/goeswith (1; 0% instances)

Children of ADJ nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: VERB (5268; 21% instances), PUNCT (3766; 15% instances), ADJ (3152; 13% instances), NOUN (3063; 12% instances), ADV (2387; 10% instances), PRON (2091; 8% instances), CONJ (1470; 6% instances), ADP (1095; 4% instances), DET (826; 3% instances), SCONJ (587; 2% instances), PROPN (477; 2% instances), AUX (361; 1% instances), NUM (109; 0% instances), PART (86; 0% instances), INTJ (22; 0% instances), SYM (3; 0% instances), X (1; 0% instances)


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