Number: number
In English, Number is a feature of nouns and other parts of speech that mark agreement with nouns, i.e. personal pronouns, verbs, and some determiners.
Sing: singular
A singular noun denotes one person, animal or thing. Every noun with the PTB tag NN or NNP is marked with this feature.
Examples:
- an apple, a train
Pronouns that refer to a single person, an animal or a thing are also marked with this feature.
- I, me, my, myself, he, his, him, himself, she, her, hers, herself, it, its, itself
We also mark all verbs with the PTB tag VBZ with this feature.
Examples:
- she does
- he walks
Further, we mark inflections of be that can only have a singular noun or pronoun in subject position with this feature.
- am, is, was
Demonstrative determiners of singular nouns and demonstrative pronouns that refer to singular nouns are also marked with this feature.
- this, that
Plur: plural
A plural noun denotes several persons, animals or things. Every noun with the PTB tag NNS or NNPS is marked with this feature.
Examples:
- several apples, two trains
Pronouns that refer to a single person, an animal or a thing are also marked with this feature.
- we, us, our, ours, ourselves, yourselves, they, them, their, theirs, themselves
Demonstrative determiners of plural nouns and demonstrative pronouns that refer to plural nouns are also marked with this feature.
- these, those
We currently don’t mark plurale tantum or collective/mass nouns.
Number in other languages: [arr] [bej] [bg] [bm] [cs] [cy] [el] [en] [es] [ess] [eu] [fi] [fr] [ga] [gn] [gub] [hbo] [hu] [hy] [it] [ka] [ky] [myv] [orv] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ru] [sl] [sv] [tpn] [tr] [tt] [u] [uk] [urb] [urj]