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ADJ: adjective

Definition

Adjectives are words that typically modify nouns and specify their properties or attributes. They may also function as predicates, as in

Το αυτοκίνητο είναι πράσινο. “The car is green.”

The ADJ tag is intended for ordinary adjectives only. See DET for determiners and NUM for cardinal numerals.

Αdjectival ordinal numerals that behave like adjectives both morphologically and syntactically (πρώτος, δεύτερος, εξηκοστός) are tagged as adjectives.

Greek adjectives inflect for el-feat/Gender (μεγάλος – μεγάλη – μεγάλο) “big”, el-feat/Number (μεγάλος – μεγάλοι) and el-feat/Case (μεγάλοι – μεγάλων – μεγάλους).

Non-periphrastic comparative and superlative el-feat/Degree of Greek adjectives are formed using a small set of suffixes or irregular forms.

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Greek)

There are 1154 ADJ lemmas (18%), 2277 ADJ types (20%) and 4693 ADJ tokens (8%). Out of 10 observed tags, the rank of ADJ is: 2 in number of lemmas, 3 in number of types and 6 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent ADJ lemmas: ευρωπαϊκός, πολύς, όλος, μεγάλος, νέος, σημαντικός, πολιτικός, εθνικός, ίδιος, οικονομικός

The 10 most frequent ADJ types: ευρωπαϊκή, ευρωπαϊκό, νέα, σημαντικό, όλα, όλες, ευρωπαϊκής, μεγάλη, ευρωπαϊκού, πολλές

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: όλος (ADJ 123, ADV 1), νέος (ADJ 112, NOUN 6, ADV 1), σημαντικός (ADJ 78, ADV 1), πολιτικός (ADJ 56, NOUN 10, ADV 3), οικονομικός (ADJ 48, ADV 2), τελευταίος (ADJ 40, ADV 1), δημόσιος (ADJ 36, NOUN 3), ηνωμένος (ADJ 36, NOUN 1), βόρειος (ADJ 34, ADV 2), νότιος (ADJ 28, ADV 2)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: σημαντικό (ADJ 34, ADV 1), όλα (ADJ 26, ADV 1), βόρεια (ADV 7, ADJ 3), τελευταία (ADJ 17, ADV 1), Αγίου (ADJ 12, NOUN 1), νέων (ADJ 12, NOUN 4), πολιτικών (ADJ 12, NOUN 3), πολιτικές (ADJ 11, NOUN 2), πολιτική (NOUN 32, ADJ 11), νέου (ADJ 8, ADV 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of ADJ is 1.973137 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.774112).

The 1st highest number of forms (19) was observed with the lemma “μεγάλος”: μέγιστη, μέγιστης, μείζονα, μείζονες, μεγάλα, μεγάλες, μεγάλη, μεγάλης, μεγάλο, μεγάλος, μεγάλου, μεγάλους, μεγάλων, μεγαλύτερα, μεγαλύτερες, μεγαλύτερη, μεγαλύτερης, μεγαλύτερο, μεγαλύτερου.

The 2nd highest number of forms (17) was observed with the lemma “πολύς”: περισσοτέρων, περισσότερα, περισσότερες, περισσότερη, περισσότερης, περισσότερο, περισσότεροι, περισσότερος, περισσότερους, πολλά, πολλές, πολλή, πολλοί, πολλούς, πολλών, πολύ, πολύν.

The 3rd highest number of forms (13) was observed with the lemma “νέος”: Νεώτερης, νέα, νέας, νέες, νέο, νέοι, νέος, νέου, νέους, νέων, νεότατης, νεότερα, νεότερο.

ADJ occurs with 4 features: el-feat/Case (4693; 100% instances), el-feat/Gender (4693; 100% instances), el-feat/Number (4693; 100% instances), el-feat/Degree (221; 5% instances)

ADJ occurs with 12 feature-value pairs: Case=Acc, Case=Dat, Case=Gen, Case=Nom, Case=Voc, Degree=Cmp, Degree=Sup, Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, Gender=Neut, Number=Plur, Number=Sing

ADJ occurs with 51 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing (734 tokens). Examples: ευρωπαϊκή, νέα, μεγάλη, κοινή, ίδια, σημαντική, δική, εθνική, βόρεια, διεθνή

Relations

ADJ nodes are attached to their parents using 16 different relations: el-dep/amod (3936; 84% instances), el-dep/conj (199; 4% instances), el-dep/root (167; 4% instances), el-dep/nsubj (92; 2% instances), el-dep/ccomp (70; 1% instances), el-dep/dobj (46; 1% instances), el-dep/acl:relcl (38; 1% instances), el-dep/advcl (37; 1% instances), el-dep/advmod (29; 1% instances), el-dep/remnant (23; 0% instances), el-dep/csubj (19; 0% instances), el-dep/acl (9; 0% instances), el-dep/appos (9; 0% instances), el-dep/xcomp (9; 0% instances), el-dep/iobj (7; 0% instances), el-dep/dep (3; 0% instances)

Parents of ADJ nodes belong to 9 different parts of speech: NOUN (3967; 85% instances), VERB (312; 7% instances), ADJ (196; 4% instances), ROOT (167; 4% instances), PRON (22; 0% instances), ADV (11; 0% instances), NUM (11; 0% instances), CONJ (4; 0% instances), ADP (3; 0% instances)

3747 (80%) ADJ nodes are leaves.

290 (6%) ADJ nodes have one child.

207 (4%) ADJ nodes have two children.

449 (10%) ADJ nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a ADJ node is 10.

Children of ADJ nodes are attached using 25 different relations: el-dep/cop (377; 14% instances), el-dep/punct (369; 14% instances), el-dep/nmod (324; 12% instances), el-dep/advmod (273; 10% instances), el-dep/nsubj (247; 9% instances), el-dep/det (212; 8% instances), el-dep/conj (169; 6% instances), el-dep/cc (151; 6% instances), el-dep/mark (93; 3% instances), el-dep/aux (77; 3% instances), el-dep/case (72; 3% instances), el-dep/csubj (51; 2% instances), el-dep/amod (49; 2% instances), el-dep/advcl (48; 2% instances), el-dep/dobj (37; 1% instances), el-dep/neg (36; 1% instances), el-dep/acl (27; 1% instances), el-dep/remnant (20; 1% instances), el-dep/nummod (13; 0% instances), el-dep/appos (12; 0% instances), el-dep/acl:relcl (9; 0% instances), el-dep/ccomp (6; 0% instances), el-dep/dep (4; 0% instances), el-dep/xcomp (3; 0% instances), el-dep/iobj (1; 0% instances)

Children of ADJ nodes belong to 10 different parts of speech: NOUN (550; 21% instances), VERB (513; 19% instances), PUNCT (369; 14% instances), PRON (310; 12% instances), ADV (278; 10% instances), CONJ (242; 9% instances), ADJ (196; 7% instances), PART (115; 4% instances), ADP (73; 3% instances), NUM (34; 1% instances)


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