ADV: adverb
Definition
In the group of Bulgarian adverbs there are words that typically modify verbs for such categories as time, place, direction or manner. They may also modify adjectives and other adverbs, as in very briefly or arguably wrong. Some adverbs can modify even [nouns] (Noun).
In BulTreeBank tagset the corresponding POS tag is D.
There is a closed subclass of pronominal adverbs that refer to
circumstances in context, rather than naming them directly; similarly
to pronouns, these can be categorized as interrogative, relative,
demonstrative etc. Pronominal adverbs also get the ADV
part-of-speech tag but they are differentiated by additional features.
In the BulTreeBank tagset the corresponding tags are as follows:
- Pdl, Pdm, Pdq, Pdt (Adverbial demonstrative pronouns for location, manner, quantity and time)
- Prl, Prm, Prq, Prt (Adverbial relative pronouns for location, manner, quantity and time)
- Pcl, Pcm, Pct (Adverbial collective pronouns for location, manner and time)
- Pil, Pim, Piq, Pit (Adverbial interrogative pronouns for location, manner, quantity and time)
- Pfl, Pfm, Pfq, Pft (Adverbial indefinite pronouns for location, manner, quantity and time)
- Pnl, Pnm, Pnq, Pnt (Adverbial negative pronouns for location, manner, quantity and time)
Examples
- demonstrative adverbs: тук, там, тогава / tuk, tam, togava “here, there, then”
- relative pronouns: когато, където, както, колкото / kogato, kadeto, kakto, kolkoto “when, where, as, as much as”
- collective adverbs: навсякъде, всякога, всякак / navsyakade, vsyakoga, vsyakak “everywhere, always, anyway”
- interrogative adverbs: кога, къде, как, колко /koga, kade, kak, kolko “when, where, how, how many”
- indefinite adverbs: някъде, някога, някак / nyakade, nyakoga, nyakak “somewhere, sometime, somehow”
- negative adverbs: никога, никъде, никак / nikoga, nikade, nikak “never, nowhere, not at all”
Note that there are words that may be traditionally called numerals in
some languages (e.g. Bulgarian) but they are treated as adverbs in the
universal tagging scheme. In particular, adverbial ordinal numerals
([bg] първо / parvo “for the first time”) are tagged ADV.
The mapped tags present the neuter singular indefinite forms of the ordinal numerals: Monsi.
In this way there will be ambiguity with the class of [adjectives] (ADJ).
Another adverbial numeral that goes under ADV is Md#:
Examples
- много / mnogo “very”
- малко /malko “little”
Note that the symbol `#’, used in the Universal POS section indicates a holder for arbitrary number of features, suppressed in the respective tag as irrelevant in the BulTreeBank tagset, when mapped to the Universal one.
ADV in other languages: [bej] [bg] [bm] [ca] [cs] [cy] [da] [el] [en] [es] [ess] [et] [eu] [fi] [fro] [fr] [ga] [grc] [gub] [hu] [hy] [it] [ja] [ka] [kk] [kpv] [ky] [myv] [no] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tr] [tt] [uk] [u] [urj] [yue] [zh]