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ADJ: adjective

Definition

Adjectives are words that typically modify nouns and specify their properties or attributes. They may also function as predicates, as in

In Turkish the Adjective do not inflect. Degree is specified using adverbs daha and en.

We distinguish between adjectives, determiners and numerals. We do not mark determiners as adjectives as is the case in most (traditional) dictionaries and grammars.

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Turkish)

There are 995 ADJ lemmas (16%), 1638 ADJ types (9%) and 5710 ADJ tokens (10%). Out of 14 observed tags, the rank of ADJ is: 2 in number of lemmas, 3 in number of types and 4 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent ADJ lemmas: iç, ara, var, kadın, iyi, yan, kız, son, yeni, yok

The 10 most frequent ADJ types: var, içinde, yeni, büyük, iyi, yok, son, aynı, başka, kadın

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: (ADJ 135, VERB 35), ara (ADJ 131, VERB 46), var (ADJ 123, VERB 69), iyi (ADJ 93, ADV 2), yan (ADJ 93, VERB 11), kız (ADJ 86, VERB 8), yok (ADJ 78, ADV 50), başka (ADJ 71, ADP 8), ön (ADJ 63, NOUN 1), erkek (ADJ 59, PROPN 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: var (ADJ 121, VERB 29), içinde (ADJ 78, NOUN 6, ADV 4), iyi (ADJ 72, ADV 2), yok (ADJ 64, ADV 45), başka (ADJ 41, ADP 8), kadın (ADJ 43, NOUN 1), çok (ADV 120, ADJ 42, ADP 7), ilgili (ADJ 37, NOUN 1), ilk (ADJ 37, ADV 12), eski (ADJ 24, VERB 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of ADJ is 1.646231 (the average of all parts of speech is 2.815350).

The 1st highest number of forms (19) was observed with the lemma “ara”: Aramızdan, Aramızı, ara, arada, aradan, aralar, aralarında, aralarından, aramda, aramıza, aramızda, aran, aranızda, arası, arasına, arasında, arasından, araya, arayla.

The 2nd highest number of forms (18) was observed with the lemma “iç”: iç, içe, içi, içim, içimde, içimden, içimi, içimizi, için, içinde, içinden, içine, içini, içten, İçim, İçimi, İçinde, İçine.

The 3rd highest number of forms (15) was observed with the lemma “yan”: yan, yana, yanda, yandan, yanlarına, yanı, yanım, yanıma, yanımda, yanımıza, yanına, yanında, yanından, yanını, yanınızda.

ADJ occurs with 6 features: Case (2413; 42% instances), Number (2413; 42% instances), Person (2413; 42% instances), Number[psor] (930; 16% instances), Person[psor] (930; 16% instances), VerbForm (10; 0% instances)

ADJ occurs with 17 feature-value pairs: Case=Abl, Case=Acc, Case=Dat, Case=Equ, Case=Gen, Case=Ins, Case=Loc, Case=Nom, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, Number[psor]=Plur, Number[psor]=Sing, Person=3, Person[psor]=1, Person[psor]=2, Person[psor]=3, VerbForm=Trans

ADJ occurs with 67 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is _ (3287 tokens). Examples: var, yeni, büyük, iyi, aynı, son, başka, bütün, çok, yok

Relations

ADJ nodes are attached to their parents using 15 different relations: amod (3798; 67% instances), root (441; 8% instances), conj (380; 7% instances), dobj (321; 6% instances), nsubj (267; 5% instances), nmod:poss (266; 5% instances), det (115; 2% instances), compound:lvc (68; 1% instances), advmod:emph (16; 0% instances), ccomp (13; 0% instances), compound (13; 0% instances), cc (9; 0% instances), csubj (1; 0% instances), mwe (1; 0% instances), nmod (1; 0% instances)

Parents of ADJ nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: NOUN (2409; 42% instances), VERB (2115; 37% instances), ADJ (573; 10% instances), ROOT (441; 8% instances), PROPN (59; 1% instances), PRON (34; 1% instances), ADV (21; 0% instances), NUM (21; 0% instances), CONJ (11; 0% instances), PUNCT (10; 0% instances), ADP (8; 0% instances), INTJ (4; 0% instances), DET (2; 0% instances), AUX (1; 0% instances), X (1; 0% instances)

3234 (57%) ADJ nodes are leaves.

1504 (26%) ADJ nodes have one child.

455 (8%) ADJ nodes have two children.

517 (9%) ADJ nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a ADJ node is 13.

Children of ADJ nodes are attached using 23 different relations: nmod (601; 13% instances), punct (570; 13% instances), nmod:poss (457; 10% instances), conj (374; 8% instances), amod (338; 8% instances), nsubj (329; 7% instances), advmod (325; 7% instances), cop (292; 7% instances), case (257; 6% instances), det (250; 6% instances), cc (140; 3% instances), acl (139; 3% instances), advmod:emph (95; 2% instances), nummod (90; 2% instances), dobj (72; 2% instances), aux:q (37; 1% instances), csubj (25; 1% instances), advcl (19; 0% instances), ccomp (14; 0% instances), mark (11; 0% instances), discourse (10; 0% instances), compound (8; 0% instances), parataxis (1; 0% instances)

Children of ADJ nodes belong to 14 different parts of speech: NOUN (1136; 26% instances), PUNCT (588; 13% instances), ADJ (573; 13% instances), VERB (435; 10% instances), ADV (357; 8% instances), AUX (293; 7% instances), ADP (258; 6% instances), CONJ (239; 5% instances), NUM (221; 5% instances), PRON (163; 4% instances), PROPN (94; 2% instances), DET (90; 2% instances), INTJ (6; 0% instances), X (1; 0% instances)


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