DET: determiner
Definition
Determiners are words that modify nouns or noun phrases and express the reference of the noun phrase in context. That is, a determiner may indicate whether the noun is referring to a definite or indefinite element of a class, to a closer or more distant element, to an element belonging to a specified person or thing, to a particular number or quantity, etc.
An important point to note is that the traditional grammar of Ukrainian does not define determiners as a separate word class. Ukrainian does not have articles. Most determiners are traditionally called pronouns; that is, an UD-conformant annotation of Ukrainian must distinguish between substantive pronouns (UD tag PRON) and attributive pronouns (UD tag DET).
Examples
- possessive determiners: мій, твій, його, її, наш, ваш, їх “my, your, his, her, our, your, their”
- reflexive possessive determiner: свій “one’s own”
- demonstrative determiners: той, цей as in Цю машину я бачила вчора. “I saw this car yesterday.”
- interrogative determiners: котрий as in Котра машина тобі подобається? “Which car do you like?”
- relative determiners: котрий as in Мені цікаво, котра машина тобі подобається. “I wonder which car you like.”
- relative possessive determiner: чий “whose”
- indefinite determiners: деякий, якийсь
- total determiners: кожен, всякий
- negative determiners: жоден, ніякий as in Ми не маємо жодної машини. “We have no cars available.”
References
Treebank Statistics (UD_Ukrainian)
There are 14 DET lemmas (2%), 26 DET types (4%) and 34 DET tokens (2%).
Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of DET is: 11 in number of lemmas, 7 in number of types and 12 in number of tokens.
The 10 most frequent DET lemmas: той, свій, цей, котрий, його, мій, такий, ваш, кожний, увесь
The 10 most frequent DET types: Ті, свою, той, його, цей, Ваші, Котра, Котру, Та, Ця
The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: той (DET 7, PRON 1)
The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: його (PRON 6, DET 1), її (PRON 5, DET 1)
- його
- її
Morphology
The form / lemma ratio of DET is 1.857143 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.172859).
The 1st highest number of forms (4) was observed with the lemma “свій”: свого, свою, своїми, своїх.
The 2nd highest number of forms (4) was observed with the lemma “цей”: Ця, цей, цих, цієї.
The 3rd highest number of forms (3) was observed with the lemma “котрий”: Котра, Котру, котрого.
DET occurs with 7 features: uk-feat/Case (34; 100% instances), uk-feat/PronType (34; 100% instances), uk-feat/Gender (23; 68% instances), uk-feat/Poss (12; 35% instances), uk-feat/Number (11; 32% instances), uk-feat/Person (6; 18% instances), uk-feat/Reflex (6; 18% instances)
DET occurs with 20 feature-value pairs: Case=Acc, Case=Dat, Case=Gen, Case=Ins, Case=Nom, Case=Voc, Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, Number=Plur, Person=1, Person=2, Person=3, Poss=Yes, PronType=Dem, PronType=Ind, PronType=Int, PronType=Prs, PronType=Rel, PronType=Tot, Reflex=Yes
DET occurs with 24 feature combinations.
The most frequent feature combination is Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|PronType=Dem (5 tokens).
Examples: той, такий, цей
Relations
DET nodes are attached to their parents using 6 different relations: uk-dep/det (24; 71% instances), uk-dep/nsubj (5; 15% instances), uk-dep/nmod (2; 6% instances), uk-dep/dobj (1; 3% instances), uk-dep/mark (1; 3% instances), uk-dep/root (1; 3% instances)
Parents of DET nodes belong to 5 different parts of speech: NOUN (20; 59% instances), VERB (7; 21% instances), ADJ (4; 12% instances), PROPN (2; 6% instances), ROOT (1; 3% instances)
24 (71%) DET nodes are leaves.
8 (24%) DET nodes have one child.
2 (6%) DET nodes have two children.
The highest child degree of a DET node is 2.
Children of DET nodes are attached using 9 different relations: uk-dep/acl (3; 25% instances), uk-dep/case (2; 17% instances), uk-dep/amod (1; 8% instances), uk-dep/appos (1; 8% instances), uk-dep/dobj (1; 8% instances), uk-dep/mark (1; 8% instances), uk-dep/neg (1; 8% instances), uk-dep/nummod (1; 8% instances), uk-dep/punct (1; 8% instances)
Children of DET nodes belong to 8 different parts of speech: VERB (3; 25% instances), ADP (2; 17% instances), PART (2; 17% instances), ADJ (1; 8% instances), NOUN (1; 8% instances), NUM (1; 8% instances), PRON (1; 8% instances), PUNCT (1; 8% instances)
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