NumType: numeral type
NumType
Some languages (especially Slavic) have a complex system of numerals. For example, in the school grammar of Czech, the main part of speech is “numeral”, it includes almost everything where counting is involved and there are various subtypes. It also includes interrogative, relative, indefinite and demonstrative words referring to numbers (words like kolik / how many, tolik / so many, několik / some, a few), so at the same time we may have a non-empty value of PronType. (In English, these words are called quantifiers and they are considered a subgroup of determiners.)
In this respect Bulgarian behaves like Czech language.
From the syntactic point of view, some numtypes behave like adjectives
and some behave like adverbs. We tag them u-pos/ADJ and
u-pos/ADV respectively. Thus the NumType feature applies to
several different parts of speech:
- u-pos/NUM: cardinal numerals
- u-pos/DET: quantifiers
- u-pos/ADJ: definite adjectival, e.g. ordinal numerals
- u-pos/ADV: adverbial (e.g. ordinal and multiplicative) numerals, both definite and pronominal
Card: cardinal number or corresponding interrogative / relative / indefinite / demonstrative word
Note that in some Indo-European languages there is a fuzzy borderline between numerals and nouns for thousand, million and billion.
Examples
- [bg] едно, две, три / edno, dve, tri “one, two, three”; колко / kolko “how many”; няколко / nyakolko “some”; толкова / tolkova “so many”; много / mnogo “many”; малко / malko “few”
Ord: ordinal number or corresponding interrogative / relative / indefinite / demonstrative word
This is a subtype of adjective.
Examples
- [bg] adjectival: първи / parvi “first”; втори / vtori “second”, трети / treti “third”, etc.
Mult: multiplicative numeral or corresponding interrogative / relative / indefinite / demonstrative word
This is subtype of adverb.
Examples
- [bg] веднъж / vednazh “once”; дваж / dvazh “twice”
Frac: fraction
This is a subtype of cardinal numbers, occasionally distinguished in corpora. It may denote a fraction or just the denominator of the fraction. In Bulgarian the numerator is cardinal numeral and denominator is ordinal numeral.
Examples
- [bg] две трети / dve treti “two thirds”
Treebank Statistics (UD_Bulgarian)
This feature is universal.
It occurs with 2 different values: Card, Ord.
3449 tokens (2%) have a non-empty value of NumType.
715 types (3%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of NumType.
548 lemmas (4%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of NumType.
The feature is used with 3 part-of-speech tags: bg-pos/NUM (2038; 1% instances), bg-pos/ADJ (895; 1% instances), bg-pos/ADV (516; 0% instances).
NUM
2038 bg-pos/NUM tokens (97% of all NUM tokens) have a non-empty value of NumType.
The most frequent other feature values with which NUM and NumType co-occurred: Definite=Ind (1908; 94%), Number=Plur (1810; 89%), Gender=EMPTY (1544; 76%).
NUM tokens may have the following values of NumType:
Card(2038; 100% of non-emptyNumType): две, един, два, 2, една, 1, 3, 10, едно, 20EMPTY(66): три, две, половин, двамата, двете, два, един, тримата, 1, 3
NumType seems to be lexical feature of NUM. 100% lemmas (407) occur only with one value of NumType.
ADJ
895 bg-pos/ADJ tokens (7% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of NumType.
The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and NumType co-occurred: Voice=EMPTY (895; 100%), Aspect=EMPTY (895; 100%), VerbForm=EMPTY (895; 100%), Number=Sing (836; 93%), Degree=EMPTY (712; 80%), Definite=Ind (663; 74%).
ADJ tokens may have the following values of NumType:
Ord(895; 100% of non-emptyNumType): 2001, 2000, първата, първите, 1, втори, първи, 1998, II, втораEMPTY(12694): други, народното, българската, нова, другите, нови, европейската, последните, друг, цялата
NumType seems to be lexical feature of ADJ. 100% lemmas (163) occur only with one value of NumType.
ADV
516 bg-pos/ADV tokens (8% of all ADV tokens) have a non-empty value of NumType.
The most frequent other feature values with which ADV and NumType co-occurred: Degree=EMPTY (400; 78%), PronType=EMPTY (396; 77%).
ADV tokens may have the following values of NumType:
Card(516; 100% of non-emptyNumType): много, повече, толкова, повечето, малко, колко, колкото, по-малко, най-много, доколкотоEMPTY(6042): още, вчера, само, вече, когато, защото, обаче, сега, как, така
Relations with Agreement in NumType
The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in NumType:
NUM –[mwe]–> NUM (52; 100%),
NUM –[conj]–> NUM (35; 100%),
NUM –[nmod]–> NUM (34; 100%),
ADJ –[conj]–> ADJ (13; 87%).
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