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Number: number

Number is an inflectional feature of nouns and other parts of speech (adjectives, verbs) that mark agreement with nouns.

Sing: singular number

A singular noun denotes one person, animal or thing.

Examples

Plur: plural number

A plural noun denotes several persons, animals or things.

Examples

Ptan: plurale tantum

Some nouns appear only in the plural form even though they denote one thing (semantic singular); some tagsets mark this distinction. Grammatically they behave like plurals, so Plur is obviously the back-off value here; however, the non-existence of singular form sometimes means that the gender is unknown. In Ukrainian, special type of numerals is used when counting nouns that are plurale tantum (NumType=Sets).

Examples

Coll: collective / mass / singulare tantum

Collective or mass or singulare tantum is a special case of singular. It applies to words that use grammatical singular to describe sets of objects, i.e. semantic plural. Although in theory they might be able to form plural, in practice it would be rarely semantically plausible. Sometimes, the plural form exists and means “several sorts of” or “several packages of”.

Examples

Diffs

Ukrainian Dependency Treebank

The UDT tagset does not distinguish Ptan from Plur and Coll from Sing, therefore this distinction is not being made in the converted data.

Treebank Statistics (UD_Ukrainian)

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

312 tokens (19%) have a non-empty value of Number. 204 types (29%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Number. 157 lemmas (26%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Number. The feature is used with 8 part-of-speech tags: VERB (143; 9% instances), NOUN (79; 5% instances), PRON (49; 3% instances), ADJ (14; 1% instances), DET (11; 1% instances), NUM (11; 1% instances), ADV (4; 0% instances), PROPN (1; 0% instances).

VERB

143 VERB tokens (45% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Number co-occurred: VerbForm=Fin (143; 100%), Gender=EMPTY (143; 100%), Mood=Ind (130; 91%), Aspect=Imp (123; 86%), Tense=Pres (104; 73%), Person=3 (88; 62%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Number:

Paradigm бутиSingPlur
Person=3|Tense=Futбуде
Person=3|Tense=Presє
Tense=Pastбули

Number seems to be lexical feature of VERB. 92% lemmas (59) occur only with one value of Number.

NOUN

79 NOUN tokens (31% of all NOUN tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

The most frequent other feature values with which NOUN and Number co-occurred: Animacy=Inan (53; 67%).

NOUN tokens may have the following values of Number:

Number seems to be lexical feature of NOUN. 100% lemmas (58) occur only with one value of Number.

PRON

49 PRON tokens (32% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Number co-occurred: PronType=Prs (49; 100%), Gender=EMPTY (49; 100%), Animacy=Anim (39; 80%).

PRON tokens may have the following values of Number:

ADJ

14 ADJ tokens (15% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and Number co-occurred: Gender=EMPTY (14; 100%), NumType=EMPTY (14; 100%), Degree=EMPTY (12; 86%), Voice=EMPTY (11; 79%), VerbForm=EMPTY (11; 79%), Aspect=EMPTY (11; 79%).

ADJ tokens may have the following values of Number:

Number seems to be lexical feature of ADJ. 100% lemmas (13) occur only with one value of Number.

DET

11 DET tokens (32% of all DET tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

The most frequent other feature values with which DET and Number co-occurred: Gender=EMPTY (11; 100%), Person=EMPTY (9; 82%), Reflex=EMPTY (9; 82%), Poss=EMPTY (7; 64%).

DET tokens may have the following values of Number:

NUM

11 NUM tokens (30% of all NUM tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

The most frequent other feature values with which NUM and Number co-occurred: NumType=Card (11; 100%), Gender=EMPTY (11; 100%).

NUM tokens may have the following values of Number:

ADV

4 ADV tokens (4% of all ADV tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

The most frequent other feature values with which ADV and Number co-occurred: Degree=EMPTY (4; 100%).

ADV tokens may have the following values of Number:

PROPN

1 PROPN tokens (2% of all PROPN tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

The most frequent other feature values with which PROPN and Number co-occurred: Gender=EMPTY (1; 100%), Case=Loc (1; 100%), Animacy=Inan (1; 100%).

PROPN tokens may have the following values of Number:

Relations with Agreement in Number

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Number: VERB –[ccomp]–> VERB (14; 67%), VERB –[nsubj]–> NOUN (12; 63%), NOUN –[det]–> DET (6; 100%), NOUN –[amod]–> ADJ (5; 83%), NOUN –[conj]–> NOUN (4; 80%), VERB –[parataxis]–> VERB (3; 75%), VERB –[nsubj]–> DET (3; 100%), DET –[acl]–> VERB (2; 67%), VERB –[iobj]–> PRON (2; 67%), VERB –[conj]–> VERB (2; 100%).

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