Poss: possessive
In English, Poss is a Boolean feature of pronouns. It tells whether the word is possessive.
Yes: it is possesive
The following English pronouns have this feature:
- my, mine, your, yours, his, her (if it has the PTB tag
PRP$), hers, its, our, ours, their, theirs, whose
Note that there is no No value. If the word is not possessive, the Poss feature will just not be mentioned in the FEAT column.
Treebank Statistics (UD_English)
This feature is universal.
It occurs with 1 different values: Yes.
3654 tokens (1%) have a non-empty value of Poss.
20 types (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Poss.
9 lemmas (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Poss.
The feature is used with 1 part-of-speech tags: en-pos/PRON (3654; 1% instances).
PRON
3654 en-pos/PRON tokens (16% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of Poss.
The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Poss co-occurred: Case=EMPTY (3654; 100%), PronType=Prs (3640; 100%), Gender=EMPTY (2853; 78%), Number=Sing (1913; 52%).
PRON tokens may have the following values of Poss:
Yes(3654; 100% of non-emptyPoss): my, your, their, his, our, its, her, whose, TheirsEMPTY(18623): i, you, it, they, we, that, he, me, this, what
Relations with Agreement in Poss
The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Poss:
PRON –[conj]–> PRON (1; 100%).
Poss in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]