Degree: degree of comparison
Degree of comparison is typically an inflectional feature of some adjectives and adverbs.
Pos: positive, first degree
This is the base form that merely states a quality of something, without comparing it to qualities of others. Note that although this degree is traditionally called “positive”, negative properties can be compared, too.
Examples
- homem jovem
- criança esperta
Cmp: comparative, second degree
The quality of one object is compared to the same quality of another object.
Examples
- o homem é melhor que eu
- o homem é mais alto que eu
Sup: superlative, third degree
The quality of one object is compared to the same quality of all other objects within a set.
Examples
- ele é o mais alto do nosso grupo
Abs: absolute superlative
Some languages, as Portuguese, can express morphologically that the studied 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
- lindo “handsome”; lindíssimo “indescribably handsome”
Treebank Statistics (UD_Portuguese)
This feature is universal.
It occurs with 2 different values: Cmp, Sup.
1377 tokens (1%) have a non-empty value of Degree.
59 types (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Degree.
24 lemmas (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Degree.
The feature is used with 4 part-of-speech tags: ADV (490; 0% instances), DET (411; 0% instances), ADJ (353; 0% instances), PRON (123; 0% instances).
ADV
490 ADV tokens (5% of all ADV tokens) have a non-empty value of Degree.
The most frequent other feature values with which ADV and Degree co-occurred: NumType=Card (467; 95%), PronType=Ind,Neg,Tot (467; 95%).
ADV tokens may have the following values of Degree:
Cmp(481; 98% of non-emptyDegree): mais, menos, tão, tanto, melhor, assim, pior, superiormenteSup(9; 2% of non-emptyDegree): melhor, PiorEMPTY(8421): não, como, já, também, mais, ontem, ainda, quando, só, depois
| Paradigm melhor | Cmp | Sup |
|---|---|---|
| melhor | melhor |
Degree seems to be lexical feature of ADV. 92% lemmas (11) occur only with one value of Degree.
DET
411 DET tokens (1% 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 (411; 100%), PronType=EMPTY (320; 78%), Gender=Masc (221; 54%), Number=Sing (220; 54%).
DET tokens may have the following values of Degree:
Cmp(410; 100% of non-emptyDegree): outros, outras, outro, outra, mais, mesmo, mesma, menos, tal, taisSup(1; 0% of non-emptyDegree): muitíssimoEMPTY(35249): o, a, os, as, um, uma, sua, seu, este, esta
ADJ
353 ADJ tokens (3% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Degree.
The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and Degree co-occurred: Number=Sing (267; 76%), Gender=Masc (185; 52%).
ADJ tokens may have the following values of Degree:
Cmp(203; 58% of non-emptyDegree): maior, maiores, melhor, menor, menores, melhores, superiores, superior, inferior, inferioresSup(150; 42% of non-emptyDegree): melhor, principal, principais, melhores, pior, mínimo, ótimo, superior, piores, péssimoEMPTY(10641): nacional, grande, primeiro, novo, primeira, nova, grandes, último, última, segundo
| Paradigm grande | Cmp | Sup |
|---|---|---|
| Gender=Masc|Number=Sing | maior | máximo |
| Gender=Masc|Number=Plur | maiores | máximos |
| Gender=Fem|Number=Sing | maior | máxima |
| Gender=Fem|Number=Plur | maiores |
PRON
123 PRON tokens (2% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of Degree.
The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Degree co-occurred: Person=EMPTY (123; 100%), Case=EMPTY (123; 100%), Reflex=EMPTY (123; 100%), PronType=EMPTY (90; 73%), Gender=Masc (74; 60%).
PRON tokens may have the following values of Degree:
Cmp(123; 100% of non-emptyDegree): mais, outros, mesmo, outras, outro, outra, mesma, tal, menos, tantoEMPTY(6595): que, se, -se, ele, o, isso, quem, tudo, eles, eu
Relations with Agreement in Degree
The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Degree:
PRON –[conj]–> ADJ (1; 100%).
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