Degree: degree of comparison
Degree of comparison is 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. Note that although this degree is traditionally called “positive”, negative properties can be compared, too.
Examples
- молода людина “young person”
Cmp: comparative, second degree
The quality of one object is compared to the same quality of another object.
Examples
- Цей чоловік молодший, ніж тамтой. “This man is younger than that one.”
Sup: superlative, third degree
The quality of one object is compared to the same quality of all other objects within a set.
Examples
- Це наймолодша людина в нашій команді. “This is the youngest person in our team”
Abs: absolute superlative
The quality of the given object is so strong that there is hardly any other object exceeding it. The quality is not actually compared to any particular set of objects but rather to the abilities of its carriers. In Ukrainian this degree is most often used with adverbs.
Examples
- якнайвище, щонайкраще “very high”, “the best possible / as good as one can”
Treebank Statistics (UD_Ukrainian)
This feature is universal.
It occurs with 3 different values: Cmp, Pos, Sup.
67 tokens (4%) have a non-empty value of Degree.
48 types (7%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Degree.
39 lemmas (6%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Degree.
The feature is used with 2 part-of-speech tags: ADJ (42; 3% instances), ADV (25; 1% instances).
ADJ
42 ADJ tokens (46% 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 (41; 98%), Voice=EMPTY (41; 98%), Aspect=EMPTY (41; 98%), Number=EMPTY (40; 95%), NumType=EMPTY (36; 86%).
ADJ tokens may have the following values of Degree:
Cmp(6; 14% of non-emptyDegree): швидший, легшого, цікавіша, швидшимPos(34; 81% of non-emptyDegree): Важливим, перший, далекому, мила, першим, чесний, Зелена, високий, гарна, делікатнихSup(2; 5% of non-emptyDegree): Найпростіша, найкращийEMPTY(50): минулому, повинен, розташоване, Бородаті, Кольорові, Кінцевий, Минулої, Об’єднаних, Одинокий, Оскарженого
Degree seems to be lexical feature of ADJ. 100% lemmas (25) occur only with one value of Degree.
ADV
25 ADV tokens (24% of all ADV tokens) have a non-empty value of Degree.
The most frequent other feature values with which ADV and Degree co-occurred: PronType=EMPTY (25; 100%).
ADV tokens may have the following values of Degree:
Cmp(8; 32% of non-emptyDegree): раніше, Менш, пізніше, теплішеPos(17; 68% of non-emptyDegree): важливо, Важко, потрібно, Часто, дуже, ніжно, просто, серйозно, страшно, тихоEMPTY(80): непогано, вже, коли, завтра, так, тоді, треба, ще, як, Надворі
Degree seems to be lexical feature of ADV. 100% lemmas (14) 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 (1; 100%).
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