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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.

Examples

Cmp: comparative, second degree

The quality of one thing is compared to the same quality of another.

Examples

Sup: superlative, third degree

The quality of one thing is compared to the same quality of all other things within a set.

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Swedish)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 3 different values: Cmp, Pos, Sup.

8497 tokens (9%) have a non-empty value of Degree. 2113 types (14%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Degree. 1231 lemmas (12%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Degree. The feature is used with 2 part-of-speech tags: sv-pos/ADJ (6767; 7% instances), sv-pos/ADV (1730; 2% instances).

ADJ

6767 sv-pos/ADJ tokens (80% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Degree.

The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and Degree co-occurred: VerbForm=EMPTY (6767; 100%), Tense=EMPTY (6767; 100%), Case=Nom (6750; 100%), Gender=EMPTY (4190; 62%), Number=Sing (3546; 52%).

ADJ tokens may have the following values of Degree:

Paradigm storPosCmpSup
större
Definite=Defstörsta
Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Singstörste
Definite=Def|Number=Singstora
Definite=Indstörst
Definite=Ind|Gender=Com|Number=Singstor
Definite=Ind|Gender=Neut|Number=Singstort
Number=Plurstora

Degree seems to be lexical feature of ADJ. 93% lemmas (1056) occur only with one value of Degree.

ADV

1730 sv-pos/ADV tokens (22% of all ADV tokens) have a non-empty value of Degree.

ADV tokens may have the following values of Degree:

Paradigm mycketPosCmpSup
mycketmer, meramest

Degree seems to be lexical feature of ADV. 92% lemmas (246) occur only with one value of Degree.

Relations with Agreement in Degree

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Degree: ADJ –[conj]–> ADJ (243; 72%), ADV –[conj]–> ADV (16; 84%), ADJ –[det]–> ADJ (8; 73%), ADJ –[det]–> ADV (1; 100%), ADJ –[dobj]–> ADV (1; 100%), ADJ –[dobj]–> ADJ (1; 100%).


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