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DET: determiner

Description

Determiners are words that modify nouns or noun phrases and express the reference of the noun phrase in context. In Irish there are pre-determiners (preceding the noun) and post-determiners (following the noun).

Articles are pre-determiners. In Irish, there is no indefinite article, only a definite one. The definite article has two forms – singlular an and plural na.

Post-determiners occur with an article, and follow the noun. Some of these are demonstratives (seo “this; siúd “that”; sin “that”; úd “that”).

Examples

Pre-determiners
Post-determiners

Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)

There are 21 DET lemmas (1%), 30 DET types (1%) and 2134 DET tokens (9%). Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of DET is: 12 in number of lemmas, 11 in number of types and 5 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent DET lemmas: an, na, a, seo, sin, aon, eile, gach, mo, do

The 10 most frequent DET types: an, na, a, seo, sin, aon, eile, gach, mo, do

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: an (DET 1016, PART 8), a (PART 864, DET 182, X 4, ADP 1), seo (DET 114, PRON 26, X 10, VERB 4), sin (PRON 109, DET 106, X 16, VERB 2), aon (DET 73, NUM 8, NOUN 2), do (ADP 255, PART 77, DET 19, X 1), uile (DET 11, ADJ 1), cibé (DET 7, PRON 1), ár (DET 7, NOUN 1), (PRON 23, SCONJ 10, DET 2, VERB 1, NOUN 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: an (DET 964, PART 3, VERB 2), a (PART 855, DET 187, X 1, ADP 1), seo (DET 114, PRON 23), sin (DET 106, PRON 88), aon (DET 67, NUM 5, NOUN 2), do (ADP 70, PART 18, DET 17), a’ (DET 6, ADP 2, PART 1), uilig (DET 4, ADJ 1), cén (PRON 9, DET 1), haon (DET 2, NUM 2)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of DET is 1.428571 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.449988).

The 1st highest number of forms (4) was observed with the lemma “an”: ‘n, a, a’, an.

The 2nd highest number of forms (3) was observed with the lemma “aon”: aon, haon, t-aon.

The 3rd highest number of forms (3) was observed with the lemma “uile”: n-uile, uile, uilig.

DET occurs with 8 features: ga-feat/PronType (1836; 86% instances), ga-feat/Number (1694; 79% instances), ga-feat/Definite (1494; 70% instances), ga-feat/Gender (369; 17% instances), ga-feat/Person (244; 11% instances), ga-feat/Poss (244; 11% instances), ga-feat/Case (234; 11% instances), ga-feat/Form (6; 0% instances)

DET occurs with 16 feature-value pairs: Case=Gen, Definite=Def, Form=Ecl, Form=HPref, Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, Person=1, Person=2, Person=3, Poss=Yes, PronType=Art, PronType=Dem, PronType=Ind, PronType=Int

DET occurs with 19 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Definite=Def|Number=Sing|PronType=Art (1015 tokens). Examples: an, a’, a, ‘n

Relations

DET nodes are attached to their parents using 6 different relations: ga-dep/det (1899; 89% instances), ga-dep/nmod:poss (229; 11% instances), ga-dep/ccomp (2; 0% instances), ga-dep/conj (2; 0% instances), ga-dep/compound (1; 0% instances), ga-dep/nsubj (1; 0% instances)

Parents of DET nodes belong to 9 different parts of speech: NOUN (1965; 92% instances), PROPN (124; 6% instances), X (12; 1% instances), PRON (8; 0% instances), NUM (7; 0% instances), ADJ (6; 0% instances), DET (6; 0% instances), VERB (5; 0% instances), ADV (1; 0% instances)

2114 (99%) DET nodes are leaves.

17 (1%) DET nodes have one child.

2 (0%) DET nodes have two children.

1 (0%) DET nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a DET node is 3.

Children of DET nodes are attached using 9 different relations: ga-dep/punct (8; 33% instances), ga-dep/det (6; 25% instances), ga-dep/compound (2; 8% instances), ga-dep/nmod:prep (2; 8% instances), ga-dep/nsubj (2; 8% instances), ga-dep/case (1; 4% instances), ga-dep/cop (1; 4% instances), ga-dep/xcomp (1; 4% instances), ga-dep/xcomp:pred (1; 4% instances)

Children of DET nodes belong to 6 different parts of speech: PUNCT (8; 33% instances), DET (6; 25% instances), ADP (4; 17% instances), NOUN (4; 17% instances), PRON (1; 4% instances), VERB (1; 4% instances)


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