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NOUN: noun

Definition

Nouns are a part of speech typically denoting a person, place, thing, animal or idea.

The NOUN tag is intended for common nouns only. See PROPN for proper nouns and PRON for pronouns.

Spanish nouns have the lexical feature ca-feat/Gender. Furthermore, the nouns inflect for ca-feat/Number.

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Catalan)

There are 7647 NOUN lemmas (29%), 10053 NOUN types (27%) and 98751 NOUN tokens (18%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of NOUN is: 2 in number of lemmas, 2 in number of types and 1 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent NOUN lemmas: any, milió, pesseta, dia, obra, persona, president, mes, grup, empresa

The 10 most frequent NOUN types: any, anys, milions, pessetes, president, persones, dia, part, cas, grup

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: dia (NOUN 567, PROPN 3), obra (NOUN 508, PROPN 1), empresa (NOUN 422, PROPN 2), cas (NOUN 407, PROPN 3), fet (NOUN 404, ADJ 59, VERB 1, PROPN 1), projecte (NOUN 360, PROPN 2), país (NOUN 342, PROPN 3), cap (NOUN 323, DET 215, PRON 23, ADP 7, PROPN 4), servei (NOUN 292, PROPN 1), cosa (NOUN 283, PROPN 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: anys (NOUN 868, PROPN 7), dia (NOUN 352, PROPN 3), cas (NOUN 323, PROPN 3), cap (NOUN 288, DET 209, PRON 18, ADP 7, PROPN 4), fet (NOUN 266, VERB 246, ADJ 21, AUX 15, PROPN 1), obra (NOUN 253, PROPN 1), empresa (NOUN 240, PROPN 2), partit (NOUN 231, VERB 2), director (NOUN 228, ADJ 10), temps (NOUN 227, PROPN 5)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of NOUN is 1.314633 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.413295).

The 1st highest number of forms (5) was observed with the lemma “_”: caure, càrrec, enrere, guanyant, portar.

The 2nd highest number of forms (5) was observed with the lemma “metre”: m, m., m.36, metre, metres.

The 3rd highest number of forms (5) was observed with the lemma “pesseta”: PTA, pesseta, pessetes, pta., ptes..

NOUN occurs with 4 features: ca-feat/Number (88924; 90% instances), ca-feat/Gender (85332; 86% instances), ca-feat/AdvType (1691; 2% instances), ca-feat/NumForm (832; 1% instances)

NOUN occurs with 6 feature-value pairs: AdvType=Tim, Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, NumForm=Digit, Number=Plur, Number=Sing

NOUN occurs with 11 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Gender=Fem|Number=Sing (30477 tokens). Examples: obra, empresa, llei, ciutat, zona, cosa, situació, banda, manera, setmana

Relations

NOUN nodes are attached to their parents using 22 different relations: ca-dep/nmod (44269; 45% instances), ca-dep/dobj (21523; 22% instances), ca-dep/nsubj (14834; 15% instances), ca-dep/conj (6104; 6% instances), ca-dep/mwe (3303; 3% instances), ca-dep/appos (3190; 3% instances), ca-dep/compound (2016; 2% instances), ca-dep/root (1306; 1% instances), ca-dep/iobj (535; 1% instances), ca-dep/case (340; 0% instances), ca-dep/ccomp (326; 0% instances), ca-dep/acl (269; 0% instances), ca-dep/advcl (238; 0% instances), ca-dep/advmod (129; 0% instances), ca-dep/mark (105; 0% instances), ca-dep/xcomp (62; 0% instances), ca-dep/cc (56; 0% instances), ca-dep/parataxis (43; 0% instances), ca-dep/csubj (39; 0% instances), ca-dep/dep (35; 0% instances), ca-dep/det (27; 0% instances), ca-dep/nummod (2; 0% instances)

Parents of NOUN nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: VERB (48228; 49% instances), NOUN (34986; 35% instances), ADJ (4632; 5% instances), ADP (2864; 3% instances), PROPN (1856; 2% instances), ADV (1449; 1% instances), NUM (1335; 1% instances), ROOT (1306; 1% instances), PRON (804; 1% instances), DET (309; 0% instances), SYM (276; 0% instances), AUX (254; 0% instances), CONJ (213; 0% instances), SCONJ (131; 0% instances), PART (90; 0% instances), PUNCT (12; 0% instances), X (6; 0% instances)

7494 (8%) NOUN nodes are leaves.

21453 (22%) NOUN nodes have one child.

29928 (30%) NOUN nodes have two children.

39876 (40%) NOUN nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a NOUN node is 34.

Children of NOUN nodes are attached using 26 different relations: ca-dep/det (67700; 29% instances), ca-dep/case (51220; 22% instances), ca-dep/nmod (36352; 16% instances), ca-dep/amod (23543; 10% instances), ca-dep/punct (13356; 6% instances), ca-dep/acl (8368; 4% instances), ca-dep/appos (6258; 3% instances), ca-dep/conj (6164; 3% instances), ca-dep/cc (5689; 2% instances), ca-dep/nummod (4664; 2% instances), ca-dep/cop (2167; 1% instances), ca-dep/advmod (1707; 1% instances), ca-dep/nsubj (1511; 1% instances), ca-dep/compound (1277; 1% instances), ca-dep/mark (1142; 0% instances), ca-dep/mwe (904; 0% instances), ca-dep/aux (682; 0% instances), ca-dep/neg (248; 0% instances), ca-dep/advcl (236; 0% instances), ca-dep/dobj (109; 0% instances), ca-dep/csubj (92; 0% instances), ca-dep/parataxis (80; 0% instances), ca-dep/dep (21; 0% instances), ca-dep/ccomp (6; 0% instances), ca-dep/xcomp (6; 0% instances), ca-dep/auxpass:reflex (3; 0% instances)

Children of NOUN nodes belong to 16 different parts of speech: DET (67892; 29% instances), ADP (51109; 22% instances), NOUN (34986; 15% instances), ADJ (24051; 10% instances), PROPN (13492; 6% instances), PUNCT (13394; 6% instances), VERB (8967; 4% instances), NUM (5997; 3% instances), CONJ (5358; 2% instances), AUX (2343; 1% instances), ADV (2091; 1% instances), SCONJ (1839; 1% instances), SYM (1039; 0% instances), PRON (929; 0% instances), PART (11; 0% instances), X (7; 0% instances)


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