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Definite: definiteness or state

Definiteness in Swedish is an inflectional feature of nouns, as well as adjectives and determiners that agree with nouns. Its value distinguishes whether we are talking about something known and concrete, or something general or unknown.

Ind: indefinite

Examples

Def: definite

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Swedish)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 2 different values: Def, Ind.

37445 tokens (39%) have a non-empty value of Definite. 10628 types (70%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Definite. 7000 lemmas (68%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Definite. The feature is used with 6 part-of-speech tags: sv-pos/NOUN (22428; 23% instances), sv-pos/DET (5479; 6% instances), sv-pos/PRON (4857; 5% instances), sv-pos/ADJ (4562; 5% instances), sv-pos/NUM (92; 0% instances), sv-pos/VERB (27; 0% instances).

NOUN

22428 sv-pos/NOUN tokens (98% of all NOUN tokens) have a non-empty value of Definite.

The most frequent other feature values with which NOUN and Definite co-occurred: Case=Nom (21443; 96%), Gender=Com (15646; 70%), Number=Sing (15356; 68%).

NOUN tokens may have the following values of Definite:

Paradigm barnIndDef
Case=Gen|Number=Singbarnsbarnets
Case=Gen|Number=Plurbarnsbarnens
Case=Nom|Number=Singbarnbarnet
Case=Nom|Number=Plurbarnbarnen

DET

5479 sv-pos/DET tokens (97% of all DET tokens) have a non-empty value of Definite.

The most frequent other feature values with which DET and Definite co-occurred: Poss=EMPTY (4776; 87%), Number=Sing (4178; 76%), PronType=Art (3844; 70%), Gender=Com (2797; 51%).

DET tokens may have the following values of Definite:

Paradigm enIndDef
Gender=Com|Number=Singenden
Gender=Neut|Number=Singettdet
Number=Plurde, Dom

Definite seems to be lexical feature of DET. 94% lemmas (30) occur only with one value of Definite.

PRON

4857 sv-pos/PRON tokens (81% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of Definite.

The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Definite co-occurred: PronType=Prs (3409; 70%), Number=Sing (3288; 68%).

PRON tokens may have the following values of Definite:

Paradigm enIndDef
Case=Nom|Gender=Com|Number=Sing|PronType=Prsen
Case=Nom|Number=Plur|PronType=Prsde
Gender=Com|Number=Sing|PronType=Inden
Gender=Com|Number=Sing|PronType=Prsenden
Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|PronType=Prsettdet
Number=Plur|PronType=Prsden

Definite seems to be lexical feature of PRON. 96% lemmas (49) occur only with one value of Definite.

ADJ

4562 sv-pos/ADJ tokens (54% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Definite.

The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and Definite co-occurred: Case=Nom (4556; 100%), Number=Sing (4129; 91%), Tense=EMPTY (3919; 86%), VerbForm=EMPTY (3919; 86%), Degree=Pos (3632; 80%).

ADJ tokens may have the following values of Definite:

Paradigm storIndDef
Degree=Pos|Gender=Com|Number=Singstor
Degree=Pos|Gender=Neut|Number=Singstort
Degree=Pos|Number=Singstora
Degree=Supstörststörsta
Degree=Sup|Gender=Masc|Number=Singstörste

NUM

92 sv-pos/NUM tokens (5% of all NUM tokens) have a non-empty value of Definite.

The most frequent other feature values with which NUM and Definite co-occurred: Case=Nom (92; 100%), NumType=Card (92; 100%).

NUM tokens may have the following values of Definite:

VERB

27 sv-pos/VERB tokens (0% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Definite.

The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Definite co-occurred: Tense=Past (27; 100%), Mood=EMPTY (27; 100%), VerbForm=Part (27; 100%), Voice=EMPTY (27; 100%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Definite:

Definite seems to be lexical feature of VERB. 100% lemmas (22) occur only with one value of Definite.

Relations with Agreement in Definite

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Definite: NOUN –[det]–> DET (3734; 82%), NOUN –[nmod]–> NOUN (1863; 59%), NOUN –[conj]–> NOUN (1818; 88%), NOUN –[appos]–> NOUN (192; 67%), ADJ –[det]–> DET (163; 59%), ADJ –[conj]–> ADJ (153; 78%), NOUN –[acl]–> NOUN (55; 57%), PRON –[mwe]–> PRON (23; 66%), PRON –[nsubj]–> NOUN (23; 59%), DET –[mwe]–> ADJ (19; 79%).


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