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UD Tamil MWTT

Language: Tamil (code: ta)
Family: Dravidian

This treebank has been part of Universal Dependencies since the UD v2.7 release.

The following people have contributed to making this treebank part of UD: Sarveswaran Kengatharaiyer, Parameswari Krishnamurthy, Keerthana Balasubramani.

Repository: UD_Tamil-MWTT
Search this treebank on-line: PML-TQ
Download all treebanks: UD 2.15

License: CC BY-SA 4.0

Genre: news

Questions, comments? General annotation questions (either Tamil-specific or cross-linguistic) can be raised in the main UD issue tracker. You can report bugs in this treebank in the treebank-specific issue tracker on Github. If you want to collaborate, please contact [sarves (æt) cse • mrt • ac • lk]. Development of the treebank happens outside the UD repository. If there are bugs, either the original data source or the conversion procedure must be fixed. Do not submit pull requests against the UD repository.

Annotation Source
Lemmas annotated manually in non-UD style, automatically converted to UD
UPOS annotated manually in non-UD style, automatically converted to UD
XPOS annotated manually
Features annotated manually in non-UD style, automatically converted to UD
Relations annotated manually in non-UD style, automatically converted to UD

Description

MWTT - Modern Written Tamil Treebank has sentences taken primarily from a text called “A Grammar of Modern Tamil by Thomas Lehmann (1993). This initial release has 536 sentences of various lengths, and all of these are added as the test set.

Acknowledgments

We would also like to thank our institutions, University of Hyderabad, India (Krishnamurthy, Parameswari; Balasubramani, Keerthana) and National Language Processing Centre, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka (Sarveswaran, K) for allowing us to work on the treebank

We thank Thomas Lehmann, Germany for permitting us to use the sentences from his text on A Modern Grammar of Tamil and Dan Zeman for his continous support and guidance to create this treebank.

References

Lehmann, T. (1993). A grammar of modern Tamil. Pondicherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture.

Statistics of UD Tamil MWTT

POS Tags

ADJADPADVAUXCCONJDETNOUNNUMPARTPRONPROPNPUNCTVERB

Features

AdpTypeAnimacyCaseGenderMoodNumberNumTypePersonPolarityPolitePronTypePunctTypeTenseVerbFormVoice

Relations

aclacl:relcladvcladvcl:condadvmodadvmod:emphamodauxaux:negaux:passcasecccompoundcompound:lvccompound:redupconjdetfixediobjmarknmodnmod:possnsubjnsubj:ncnsubj:passnummodobjoblobl:agentobl:argobl:cmprobl:instobl:lmodobl:pmodobl:tmodpunctrootvocativexcomp

Tokenization and Word Segmentation

Morphology

Tags

Nominal Features

Degree and Polarity

Verbal Features

Pronouns, Determiners, Quantifiers

Other Features

Syntax

Auxiliary Verbs and Copula

Core Arguments, Oblique Arguments and Adjuncts

Here we consider only relations between verbs (parent) and nouns or pronouns (child).

Relations Overview