This is part of archived UD v1 documentation. See http://universaldependencies.org/ for the current version.

home sv/feat issue tracker

Number: number

Number in Swedish is a feature of nouns, pronouns, adjectives and determiners.

Sing: singular number

Examples

• [sv] resultat “result”
• [sv] en “a/an”
• [sv] traditionell “traditional”
• [sv] vägen “the road”

Plur: plural number

Examples

• [sv] vi “we”
• [sv] personliga “personal”
• [sv] förutsättningar “prerequisites”
• [sv] några färdigheter “some skills”

---

Treebank Statistics (UD_Swedish)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 2 different values: Plur, Sing.

39253 tokens (41%) have a non-empty value of Number. 11229 types (74%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Number. 7386 lemmas (72%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Number. The feature is used with 6 part-of-speech tags: sv-pos/NOUN (22430; 23% instances), sv-pos/ADJ (6813; 7% instances), sv-pos/DET (5392; 6% instances), sv-pos/PRON (4477; 5% instances), sv-pos/NUM (92; 0% instances), sv-pos/VERB (49; 0% instances).

NOUN

22430 sv-pos/NOUN tokens (98% of all NOUN tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

The most frequent other feature values with which NOUN and Number co-occurred: Case=Nom (21444; 96%), Gender=Com (15646; 70%), Definite=Ind (14738; 66%).

NOUN tokens may have the following values of Number:

• Plur (7072; 32% of non-empty Number): barn, år, barnen, procent, människor, kvinnor, miljoner, kronor, fall, länder
• Sing (15358; 68% of non-empty Number): del, äktenskapet, år, tid, samhället, familjen, arbete, barn, sätt, äktenskap
• EMPTY (555): kr, %, dr, s., kap., proc, KPI, milj, mån, sid

Paradigm barn	Sing	Plur
Case=Gen|Definite=Def	barnets	barnens
Case=Gen|Definite=Ind	barns	barns
Case=Nom|Definite=Def	barnet	barnen
Case=Nom|Definite=Ind	barn	barn

ADJ

6813 sv-pos/ADJ tokens (80% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and Number co-occurred: Case=Nom (6798; 100%), Tense=EMPTY (5766; 85%), VerbForm=EMPTY (5766; 85%), Degree=Pos (5707; 84%), Gender=EMPTY (3677; 54%).

ADJ tokens may have the following values of Number:

• Plur (2623; 38% of non-empty Number): olika, andra, många, vissa, stora, flera, flesta, nya, små, sådana
• Sing (4190; 62% of non-empty Number): stor, hela, annan, nya, själv, sådan, viss, egen, annat, ny
• EMPTY (1685): större, första, högre, bättre, mindre, bästa, bra, följande, äldre, beroende

Paradigm stor	Sing	Plur
Definite=Def|Degree=Pos	stora
Definite=Def|Degree=Sup|Gender=Masc	störste
Definite=Ind|Degree=Pos|Gender=Com	stor
Definite=Ind|Degree=Pos|Gender=Neut	stort
Degree=Pos		stora

DET

5392 sv-pos/DET tokens (95% of all DET tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

The most frequent other feature values with which DET and Number co-occurred: Poss=EMPTY (4853; 90%), PronType=Art (3844; 71%), Gender=Com (2814; 52%).

DET tokens may have the following values of Number:

• Plur (1178; 22% of non-empty Number): de, alla, dessa, sina, några, våra, vilka, dina, inga, bägge
• Sing (4214; 78% of non-empty Number): en, den, ett, det, sin, denna, varje, någon, detta, sitt
• EMPTY (264): samma, deras, dess, hans, hennes, vars, varandras, vilkas, Vems, andras

Paradigm en	Sing	Plur
Definite=Def|Gender=Com	den
Definite=Def|Gender=Neut	det
Definite=Def		de, Dom
Definite=Ind|Gender=Com	en
Definite=Ind|Gender=Neut	ett

PRON

4477 sv-pos/PRON tokens (75% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Number co-occurred: Definite=Def (3178; 71%), PronType=Prs (3031; 68%), Case=EMPTY (2244; 50%).

PRON tokens may have the following values of Number:

• Plur (1189; 27% of non-empty Number): de, vi, dem, oss, andra, många, alla, varandra, dessa, vilka
• Sing (3288; 73% of non-empty Number): det, man, den, du, detta, vad, han, jag, hon, en
• EMPTY (1491): som, sig, sej

Paradigm den	Sing	Plur
Gender=Com|PronType=Prs	den
Gender=Neut|PronType=Art	Det
Gender=Neut|PronType=Ind	det
Gender=Neut|PronType=Prs	det
Gender=Neut|PronType=Tot	det
PronType=Prs		den

NUM

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

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

NUM tokens may have the following values of Number:

• Sing (92; 100% of non-empty Number): en, ett
• EMPTY (1649): två, tre, 1, 20, 2, 1970, 3, 10, 1971, 7

VERB

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

The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Number co-occurred: Tense=Past (49; 100%), Voice=EMPTY (49; 100%), Mood=EMPTY (49; 100%), VerbForm=Part (49; 100%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Number:

• Plur (22; 45% of non-empty Number): påverkade, tvungna, anpassade, bedövade, diciplinerade, emanciperade, fjärrundersökta, frusterade, färdigräknade, fördelade
• Sing (27; 55% of non-empty Number): vald, vänd, hörselskadad, accepterad, förbjudet, förstärkt, förändrad, ifylld, komplicerad, likställd
• EMPTY (11537): är, har, finns, vara, blir, få, får, var, ha, gäller

Paradigm välja	Sing	Plur
Definite=Ind|Gender=Com	vald
		valda

Number seems to be lexical feature of VERB. 95% lemmas (38) occur only with one value of Number.

Relations with Agreement in Number

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Number: NOUN –[det]–> DET (4429; 97%), NOUN –[amod]–> ADJ (3656; 82%), NOUN –[nmod]–> NOUN (1724; 54%), NOUN –[conj]–> NOUN (1577; 76%), NOUN –[det]–> ADJ (974; 74%), NOUN –[nmod:poss]–> NOUN (587; 64%), NOUN –[nmod:poss]–> DET (506; 76%), ADJ –[nsubj]–> NOUN (370; 76%), ADJ –[conj]–> ADJ (261; 80%), ADJ –[det]–> DET (194; 69%).

---

Number in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]

© 2014 Universal Dependencies contributors. Site powered by Annodoc and brat

.