ExtPos: external part of speech
| Values: | ADJ | ADP | ADV | CCONJ | DET | PRON | PROPN | SCONJ | PART |
This feature differs significantly from all other features: it describes neither the lexical category, nor the inflectional paradigm slot of the token it appears on. Rather than to the individual token, it pertains to a multiword expression and indicates the part of speech that the expression would get if it were analyzed as a single word. ExtPos is annotated at the head node of the multiword expression. The possible values are taken from the defined UPOS tags and no other values are allowed (not even at the language-specific level). The main motivation for ExtPos is that the multiword expression may behave like a part of speech different from the UPOS of the head node; however, ExtPos is sometimes used even if it is identical to the UPOS of the head node. Also, it is not strictly necessary that the expression is multiword – if one of the words of the expression is omitted by mistake, or if a single word has been coerced into a part of speech different from its lexical one, ExtPos may be used to signal it.
ExtPos is strongly recommended for fixed functional multiword expressions (the head node has one or more children attached via the fixed relation). These should normally lead to ExtPos values ADP, ADV, AUX, CCONJ, DET, PRON, SCONJ (the fixed relation should not be used for compounds that work like content words). However, ExtPos is occasionally useful in other situations, too: for example, when a multiword expression acts as a proper noun (although its parts behave like other words) or as an interjection.
ADJ: adjective-like expression
Examples
- հազար ու մի/hazar ow mi (a multiword adjective paraphrasable as “numerous”, lit. “thousand and one”; the first node is NUM)
ADP: adposition-like expression
Multiword adpositions are often grammaticalized prepositional phrases.
Examples
- ի շահ/i šah “in favour of” (here the first node is the technical head and it is a preposition itself, so UPOS =
ExtPos) - սկսած հունվարից/sksaç hownvaricʼ “starting from January” (here the first node is a VERB)
ADV: adverb-like expression
Examples
- մի կերպ/mi kerp (a multiword adverb paraphrasable as “somehow”; the first node մի/mi is DET)
CCONJ: coordinating conjunction-like expression
Examples
- ոչ միայն/oč miayn “not only” (ոչ/oč = PART)
DET: determiner-like expression
Examples
- ոչ մի/oč mi “not any” (ոչ/oč = PART)
PRON: pronoun-like expression
Examples
- ամեն ինչ/amen inč (a multiword determiner paraphrasable as “everything”, ամեն/amen = DET)
PROPN: proper noun-like expression
Examples
- Վայոց ձոր/Vayocʼ jor (Վայոց/Vayocʼ = NOUN)
SCONJ: subordinator-like expression
Examples
- հենց որ/hencʼ or “as soon as” (հենց = ADV)
PART: particle-like expression
Examples
- ի վերջո/i verǰo (a multiword particle paraphrasable as “eventually”; the first node is ADP)
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