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Gender: gender

Gender is a lexical feature of nouns and an inflectional feature of other parts of speech (adjectives, determiners) that mark agreement with nouns.

Com: common gender

Swedish does not distinguish masculine/feminine most of the time but does distinguish neuter vs. non-neuter (neutrum/utrum). The non-neuter is called common gender.

Examples

Neut: neuter gender

Nouns and other parts of speech that are neither masculine nor feminine (grammatically).

Examples

Masc: masculine gender

Some adjectives, when referring specifically to a male person, take a masculine form in Swedish.

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Swedish)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 4 different values: Com, Fem, Masc, Neut.

33614 tokens (35%) have a non-empty value of Gender. 10234 types (68%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Gender. 6850 lemmas (67%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Gender. The feature is used with 6 part-of-speech tags: sv-pos/NOUN (22566; 23% instances), sv-pos/DET (4082; 4% instances), sv-pos/PRON (3706; 4% instances), sv-pos/ADJ (3141; 3% instances), sv-pos/NUM (92; 0% instances), sv-pos/VERB (27; 0% instances).

NOUN

22566 sv-pos/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: Case=Nom (21444; 95%), Number=Sing (15358; 68%), Definite=Ind (14738; 65%).

NOUN tokens may have the following values of Gender:

Paradigm äktenskapNeutCom
Case=Gen|Definite=Def|Number=Singäktenskapetsäktenskapens
Case=Gen|Definite=Ind|Number=Singäktenskaps
Case=Gen|Definite=Ind|Number=Pluräktenskaps
Case=Nom|Definite=Def|Number=Singäktenskapetäktenskapen
Case=Nom|Definite=Ind|Number=Singäktenskap
Case=Nom|Definite=Ind|Number=Pluräktenskap

Gender seems to be lexical feature of NOUN. 99% lemmas (5836) occur only with one value of Gender.

DET

4082 sv-pos/DET tokens (72% 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 (4082; 100%), Poss=EMPTY (3717; 91%), PronType=Art (3222; 79%), Definite=Ind (2324; 57%).

DET tokens may have the following values of Gender:

Paradigm enNeutCom
Definite=Defdetden
Definite=Indetten

PRON

3706 sv-pos/PRON tokens (62% 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 (3288; 89%), Definite=Def (2577; 70%), PronType=Prs (2510; 68%), Case=EMPTY (2026; 55%).

PRON tokens may have the following values of Gender:

Paradigm dennaMascNeutCom
PronType=Demdennedettadenna
PronType=Prsdetta

ADJ

3141 sv-pos/ADJ tokens (37% 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 (3136; 100%), Case=Nom (3130; 100%), Definite=Ind (3030; 96%), VerbForm=EMPTY (2578; 82%), Tense=EMPTY (2578; 82%), Degree=Pos (2573; 82%).

ADJ tokens may have the following values of Gender:

Paradigm storMascNeutCom
Definite=Def|Degree=Supstörste
Definite=Ind|Degree=Posstortstor

NUM

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

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

NUM tokens may have the following values of Gender:

Paradigm enNeutCom
etten

VERB

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

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

VERB tokens may have the following values of Gender:

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

Relations with Agreement in Gender

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Gender: NOUN –[det]–> DET (3460; 76%), NOUN –[nmod]–> NOUN (1690; 53%), NOUN –[conj]–> NOUN (1389; 67%), NOUN –[nmod:poss]–> NOUN (552; 60%), NOUN –[nmod:poss]–> DET (339; 51%), NOUN –[appos]–> NOUN (183; 64%), NOUN –[nsubj]–> NOUN (151; 56%), ADJ –[conj]–> ADJ (125; 79%), ADJ –[expl]–> PRON (112; 93%), ADJ –[nsubj]–> PRON (93; 52%).


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