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DET: determiner

Definition

We follow the definition for DET proposed in the universal scheme.

However note that at the moment numerals are not consistently annotated as NUM, and are sometimes marked as DET.

For demonstratives such as ce …-là, ce …-ci (as in cet homme-ci, cette femme-là “this man, that women”), the first part of the determiner is annotated as DET and the clitic ci, là (which are split from the noun) are marked as PART.

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

There are 32 DET lemmas (0%), 80 DET types (0%) and 61766 DET tokens (15%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of DET is: 12 in number of lemmas, 11 in number of types and 3 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent DET lemmas: le, un, son, ce, tout, plusieurs, quelque, certain, chaque, aucun

The 10 most frequent DET types: le, la, les, l’, un, une, des, son, sa, cette

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: le (DET 43244, PRON 882, PROPN 3), un (DET 10158, PRON 316, NUM 58, NOUN 2, PROPN 1), son (DET 4360, NOUN 21), ce (DET 2226, PRON 977, SCONJ 2, X 1), tout (DET 580, PRON 146, ADV 142, NOUN 22, ADJ 7), plusieurs (DET 252, PRON 12), quelque (DET 182, ADV 3), certain (DET 161, PRON 50, ADJ 33), aucun (DET 109, PRON 15), du (DET 83, PROPN 5)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: le (DET 13837, PRON 287, PROPN 3), la (DET 9727, PRON 110, PROPN 3, NOUN 1, ADV 1), les (DET 8775, PRON 131), l’ (DET 6221, PRON 264, PART 154, PROPN 2), un (DET 3954, PRON 186, NUM 58, PROPN 1), une (DET 3386, PRON 111, NUM 59, NOUN 3), des (DET 1717, ADP 1), son (DET 1393, NOUN 17, AUX 3), ce (DET 542, PRON 330, SCONJ 2, X 1), de (ADP 26519, DET 434, PROPN 32)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of DET is 2.500000 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.307036).

The 1st highest number of forms (16) was observed with the lemma “son”: leur, leurs, ma, mes, mon, nos, notre, sa, se, ses, son, sont, tes, ton, vos, votre.

The 2nd highest number of forms (6) was observed with the lemma “le”: l, l’, la, le, les, là.

The 3rd highest number of forms (6) was observed with the lemma “un”: d’, de, des, in, un, une.

DET occurs with 4 features: fr-feat/Number (61626; 100% instances), fr-feat/PronType (60094; 97% instances), fr-feat/Gender (58574; 95% instances), fr-feat/Definite (53479; 87% instances)

DET occurs with 10 feature-value pairs: Definite=Def, Definite=Ind, Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, PronType=Art, PronType=Dem, PronType=Neg, PronType=Prs

DET occurs with 43 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art (17953 tokens). Examples: le, l’, l

Relations

DET nodes are attached to their parents using 16 different relations: fr-dep/det (56979; 92% instances), fr-dep/nmod:poss (4361; 7% instances), fr-dep/mwe (223; 0% instances), fr-dep/neg (111; 0% instances), fr-dep/advmod (51; 0% instances), fr-dep/conj (10; 0% instances), fr-dep/compound (9; 0% instances), fr-dep/dep (6; 0% instances), fr-dep/name (6; 0% instances), fr-dep/case (3; 0% instances), fr-dep/nsubj (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/amod (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/dobj (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/mark (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/nmod (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/root (1; 0% instances)

Parents of DET nodes belong to 13 different parts of speech: NOUN (54461; 88% instances), PROPN (6172; 10% instances), ADJ (367; 1% instances), ADP (191; 0% instances), PRON (182; 0% instances), NUM (126; 0% instances), ADV (104; 0% instances), X (73; 0% instances), VERB (53; 0% instances), SYM (21; 0% instances), DET (13; 0% instances), PART (2; 0% instances), ROOT (1; 0% instances)

61650 (100%) DET nodes are leaves.

79 (0%) DET nodes have one child.

30 (0%) DET nodes have two children.

7 (0%) DET nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a DET node is 5.

Children of DET nodes are attached using 17 different relations: fr-dep/mwe (86; 52% instances), fr-dep/punct (17; 10% instances), fr-dep/advmod (11; 7% instances), fr-dep/case (9; 5% instances), fr-dep/cc (9; 5% instances), fr-dep/conj (9; 5% instances), fr-dep/nmod (8; 5% instances), fr-dep/nsubj (5; 3% instances), fr-dep/amod (2; 1% instances), fr-dep/mark (2; 1% instances), fr-dep/acl (1; 1% instances), fr-dep/advcl (1; 1% instances), fr-dep/appos (1; 1% instances), fr-dep/cop (1; 1% instances), fr-dep/goeswith (1; 1% instances), fr-dep/nmod:poss (1; 1% instances), fr-dep/reparandum (1; 1% instances)

Children of DET nodes belong to 12 different parts of speech: ADV (58; 35% instances), NOUN (28; 17% instances), ADP (27; 16% instances), PUNCT (17; 10% instances), DET (13; 8% instances), CONJ (8; 5% instances), ADJ (3; 2% instances), PROPN (3; 2% instances), VERB (3; 2% instances), PRON (2; 1% instances), SCONJ (2; 1% instances), NUM (1; 1% instances)


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