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NOUN: noun

Definition

Nouns are a part of speech typically denoting a person, place, thing, animal, or idea.

The NOUN tag is intended for common nouns only. See PROPN for proper nouns and PRON for pronouns.

As a special case, classifiers (量詞 / liàngcí) are also tagged NOUN per UD guidelines. Their classifier status may be preserved in the feature column (FEATS) as NounType=Clf.

Examples

• Nouns
  • can form noun phrase by pre-modifying with a numeral and a classifier, like 一杯水 / yībēishǔi “a cup of water”.
  • 杯子／ bēizi “cup”, 草 / cǎo “grass”, 氧氣 / yǎngqì “oxygen”, 地方 / dìfang “place”, 能力 / nénglì “ability”, 歷史 / lìshǐ “history”
• Classifiers
  • can be pre-modified by both NUM and DET directly.
  • 個 / gè (generic classifier), 條 / tiáo (classifier for long, slim objects), 本 / běn (classifier for book-like objects), 雙 / shuāng “pair”, 杯 / bēi “cup (of something)”, 磅 / bàng “pound”, 年 / nián “year”
• Temporal nouns
  • typically act as adjunct of verb phrases but can pre-modify another noun by adding a 的 / de suffix.
  • 今天 / jīntiān ‘today’, 去年 / qùnián “last year”, 晚上 / wǎnshàng “night”
• Position words
  • typically act as object of directional verb, 在 / zài “at” but do not satisfy the requirements of PROPN and PRON.
  • 旁邊 / pángbiān “side”, 一旁 / yīpáng “aside”
• Localizers
  • typically indicate spatial information and is used as a sentence constituent, like obj and obl.
  • 西 / xī “west”

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