ExtPos: external part of speech
| Values: | ADJ | ADP | ADV | CCONJ | DET | PRON | PROPN | SCONJ | PART |
This feature differs significantly from all other features: It describes neither the lexical category, nor the inflectional paradigm slot of the token it appears on.
Rather than to the individual token, it pertains to a multiword expression and indicates the part of speech that the expression would get if it were analyzed as a single word.
ExtPos is annotated at the head node of the multiword expression. The possible values are taken from the defined UPOS tags and no other
values are allowed (not even at the language-specific level). The main motivation for ExtPos is that the multiword expression may behave like a part of speech different from
the UPOS of the head node; however, ExtPos is sometimes used even if it is identical to the UPOS of the head node. Also, it is not strictly necessary that the expression is
multiword – if one of the words of the expression is omitted by mistake, or if a single word has been coerced into a part of speech different from its lexical one, ExtPos may
be used to signal it.
ExtPos is strongly recommended for fixed functional multiword expressions (the head node has one or more children attached via the fixed relation). These should normally
lead to ExtPos values ADP, ADV, AUX, CCONJ, DET, PRON, SCONJ (the fixed relation should not be used for compounds that work like content words). However,
ExtPos is occasionally useful in other situations, too: for example, when a multiword expression acts as a proper noun (although its parts behave like other words) or as
an interjection.
ADJ: adjective-like expression
Examples
- ի բան/i ban (a multiword adjective paraphrasable as “useful, necassary”, lit. “to/for something”)
- նախշ ու նիգար/naxš ow nigar (a multiword adjective paraphrasable as “tracery, ornamental”, lit. “ornament and figure”; the first node is NOUN)
ADP: adposition-like expression
Multiword adpositions are often grammaticalized prepositional phrases.
Examples
- ի խէչ/i xēč “at; near; next to” (here the first node is the technical head and it is a preposition itself, so UPOS =
ExtPos)
ADV: adverb-like expression
Examples
- ի հօն/i hòn (a multiword adverb paraphrasable as “there”; the first node is ADP)
CCONJ: coordinating conjunction-like expression
Examples
- ոչ (ե)թէ/oč (e)t’ē “not” (in “not… but”) (ոչ = PART)
DET: determiner-like expression
Examples
- ոչ որ/oč or “not any” (ոչ =
PART)
PRON: pronoun-like expression
Examples
- ամէն մէկ/amēn mēk (a multiword determiner paraphrasable as everyone, ամեն= DET)
SCONJ: subordinator-like expression
Examples
- թող թէ/t’oġ t’ē “even if; apart from” (թող = [VERB])
PART: particle-like expression
Examples
- կարծեմ թէ/karçem t’ē (a multiword particle paraphrasable as “probably, perhaps”; the first node is VERB)
ExtPos in other languages: [af] [axm] [bej] [de] [el] [en] [fr] [gd] [ha] [ht] [hy] [hyw] [it] [koi] [ltg] [lv] [mt] [naq] [nmf] [oge] [orv] [pcm] [pl] [pt] [ru] [say] [u] [uk] [xcl]