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Universal POS tags

These tags mark the core part-of-speech categories. To distinguish additional lexical and grammatical properties of words, use the universal features.

Open class words	Closed class words	Other
ADJ	ADP	PUNCT
ADV	AUX	SYM
INTJ	CONJ	X
NOUN	DET
PROPN	NUM
VERB	PART
	PRON
	SCONJ

Alphabetical listing

ADJ: adjective
ADP: adposition
ADV: adverb
AUX: auxiliary verb
CONJ: coordinating conjunction
DET: determiner
INTJ: interjection
NOUN: noun
NUM: numeral
PART: particle
PRON: pronoun
PROPN: proper noun
PUNCT: punctuation
SCONJ: subordinating conjunction
SYM: symbol
VERB: verb
X: other