UD for French 
Tokenization and Word Segmentation
- In general, words are delimited by whitespace characters and punctuations are considered as separated words.
- Only numbers can contain spaces (following the regexp
[0-9 ,]+). - There are several closed classes of contractions that are treated as multi-word tokens and segmented to individual syntactic words. For instance, au -> à + le, auquel -> de + lequel. Note that du and des are ambiguous and can be split or not depending of their usage.
For more details, see tokenization.
Morphology
Tags
This is an overview only. For more detailed discussion and examples, see the list of French POS tags and French features.
- French uses all 17 universal POS categories:
- (PART) is used only in UD_French-ParTUT for the negation particule ne (which is annotated
ADVin other treebanks). - All French corpora has just three auxiliary verb (AUX)
- être (to be) is used as a copule, as a tense auxiliary and as a passive auxiliary,
- avoir (to have) is used as a tense auxiliary,
- faire (to make) is used in causative constructions.
- (PART) is used only in UD_French-ParTUT for the negation particule ne (which is annotated
Features
- TODO (see French features).
Instruction: Describe inherent and inflectional features for major word classes (at least NOUN and VERB). Describe other noteworthy features. Include links to language-specific feature definitions if any.
Syntax
- TODO (see French relations).
Instruction: Give criteria for identifying core arguments (subjects and objects), and describe the range of copula constructions in nonverbal clauses. List all subtype relations used. Include links to language-specific relations definitions if any.
Treebanks
There are eight French UD treebanks:
- UD_French-ParTUT
- UD_French-GSD
- UD_French-Sequoia
- UD_French-FQB
- UD_French-Rhapsodie (This treebank was named UD_French-Spoken until version 2.8)
- UD_French-ParisStories
- UD_French-PUD
- UD_French-FTB
Note that the corpus UD_French-FTB was not updated since 2018 and may not follow the more rencent description given in these guidelines.