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DET: determiner

Definition

Determiners are words that modify nouns or noun phrases and express the reference of the noun phrase in context. Like adjectives, Italian determiners typically agree with the noun they modify for gender and number, e.g. questo libro “this book” (masculin singular), i libri “the books” (masculin plural), la carta “the paper” (feminine singular).

In Italian, usually a nominal allows for one DET modifier only, with the following exceptions:

Corresponding language-specific part-of-speech tags

RD: Definite article

RI: Indefinite article

DE: Exclamative determiner

DI: Indefinite determiner

DQ: Interrogative determiner

DR: Relative determiner

DD: Demonstrative determiner

T: Predeterminer

AP: Possessive adjective

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)

There are 78 DET lemmas (0%), 151 DET types (1%) and 47548 DET tokens (16%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of DET is: 10 in number of lemmas, 9 in number of types and 2 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent DET lemmas: il, uno, suo, questo, quale, tutto, ogni, loro, che, alcuno

The 10 most frequent DET types: il, la, i, l’, le, un, gli, una, lo, quale

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: il (DET 37123, PRON 9, PROPN 6, NOUN 1), uno (DET 4549, PRON 215, NUM 42, ADJ 2, PROPN 1), suo (DET 1028, PRON 13), questo (DET 739, PRON 228), quale (DET 514, PRON 312, ADP 20, ADV 5, SCONJ 2), tutto (DET 415, PRON 222, ADJ 12, ADV 10, NOUN 5), loro (DET 266, PRON 80), che (PRON 2306, SCONJ 1263, DET 251, ADP 33, CONJ 28), alcuno (DET 219, PRON 39), molto (DET 179, ADV 160, PRON 53, ADJ 2)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: il (DET 10977, PROPN 3), la (DET 8654, PRON 126, X 2, PROPN 2), i (DET 4356, ADJ 10, X 1, NOUN 1), l’ (DET 4249, PRON 93), le (DET 3743, PRON 104, PROPN 1), un (DET 2359, NUM 16, PRON 1), gli (DET 1531, PRON 114), una (DET 1532, PRON 60, NUM 16, ADJ 2, NOUN 1, PROPN 1), lo (DET 609, PRON 322), quale (DET 251, PRON 132, ADP 10, SCONJ 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of DET is 1.935897 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.488836).

The 1st highest number of forms (10) was observed with the lemma “il”: gli, i, i1, il, l’, la, le, lo, lu, l’.

The 2nd highest number of forms (7) was observed with the lemma “quello”: quegli, quei, quel, quell’, quella, quelle, quello.

The 3rd highest number of forms (6) was observed with the lemma “molto”: molta, molte, molti, moltissime, moltissimi, molto.

DET occurs with 7 features: it-feat/PronType (47476; 100% instances), it-feat/Number (46903; 99% instances), it-feat/Definite (41744; 88% instances), it-feat/Gender (40762; 86% instances), it-feat/Poss (1819; 4% instances), it-feat/Degree (13; 0% instances), it-feat/Person (3; 0% instances)

DET occurs with 18 feature-value pairs: Definite=Def, Definite=Ind, Degree=Abs, Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, Person=3, Poss=Yes, PronType=Art, PronType=Clit, PronType=Dem, PronType=Exc, PronType=Ind, PronType=Int, PronType=Predet, PronType=Prs, PronType=Rel

DET occurs with 62 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art (12529 tokens). Examples: il, lo, l’, l’, le, i1, lu

Relations

DET nodes are attached to their parents using 7 different relations: it-dep/det (45276; 95% instances), it-dep/det:poss (1861; 4% instances), it-dep/det:predet (390; 1% instances), it-dep/conj (11; 0% instances), it-dep/mwe (6; 0% instances), it-dep/case (3; 0% instances), it-dep/nmod (1; 0% instances)

Parents of DET nodes belong to 12 different parts of speech: NOUN (42003; 88% instances), PROPN (3224; 7% instances), NUM (1065; 2% instances), PRON (683; 1% instances), ADJ (200; 0% instances), VERB (162; 0% instances), SYM (83; 0% instances), ADV (73; 0% instances), ADP (33; 0% instances), X (13; 0% instances), PUNCT (6; 0% instances), DET (3; 0% instances)

47519 (100%) DET nodes are leaves.

16 (0%) DET nodes have one child.

10 (0%) DET nodes have two children.

3 (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 10 different relations: it-dep/cc (9; 20% instances), it-dep/conj (9; 20% instances), it-dep/nmod (9; 20% instances), it-dep/advmod (6; 13% instances), it-dep/punct (5; 11% instances), it-dep/advcl (3; 7% instances), it-dep/acl:relcl (1; 2% instances), it-dep/appos (1; 2% instances), it-dep/case (1; 2% instances), it-dep/nummod (1; 2% instances)

Children of DET nodes belong to 10 different parts of speech: NOUN (11; 24% instances), CONJ (9; 20% instances), ADV (6; 13% instances), PUNCT (5; 11% instances), VERB (5; 11% instances), DET (3; 7% instances), PROPN (3; 7% instances), ADJ (1; 2% instances), ADP (1; 2% instances), NUM (1; 2% instances)


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