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ADJ ADP PUNCT
ADV AUX SYM
INTJ CONJ X
NOUN DET
PROPN NUM
VERB PART
PRON
SCONJ

ADJ:
adjective

Definition

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

El coche es verde. “The car is green.”

In Spanish, adjectives normally follow the noun, e.g. La casa amarilla “The yellow house”, although sometimes they may also precede the noun, e.g. La blanca nieve “The white snow”.

Adjectives in Spanish agree in number and gender with the noun they modify, e.g. la casa amarilla (femenine singular), las casas amarillas (femenine plural).

The class of adjectives in Spanish UD also includes ordinal numbers and participial adjectives, both behaving as adjectives morphologically and syntactically. Note that participles are word forms that may share properties and usage of adjectives and verbs. Depending on context, they may be classified as either VERB or ADJ.

To conform to the UD guidelines, possessive adjectives are handled as determiners DET.

Examples

  • grande “big”
  • viejo “old”
  • verde “green”
  • incomprensible “incomprehensible”
  • primero “first”, segundo “second”, tercero “third”
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ADP:
adposition

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ADV:
adverb

Definition

Adverbs are words that typically modify verbs for such categories as time, place, direction or manner. They may also modify adjectives (as in claramente falso “clearly fake”), other adverbs (as in muy brevemente “very briefly”) or even nouns / pronouns (as in solamente tú “only you”).

There is a closed subclass of pronominal adverbs that refer to circumstances in context, rather than naming them directly; similarly to pronouns, these can be categorized as interrogative, relative, demonstrative, etc. To conform to the UD guidelines, pronominal adverbs also get the ADV part-of-speech tag but they are differentiated by additional features (see pronominal type).

Examples

  • muy “very”
  • bien “well”
  • exactamente “exactly”
  • mañana “tomorrow”
  • arriba, abajo “up, down”
  • interrogative or exclamative adverbs: dónde, cuándo, cómo, por qué “where, when, how, why”
  • demonstrative adverbs: aquí, allí, ahora, después “here, there, now, then”
  • totality adverbs: siempre “always”
  • negative adverbs: nunca “never”
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AUX:
auxiliary verb

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CONJ:
coordinating conjunction

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DET:
determiner

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INTJ:
interjection

Definition

An interjection is a word that is used most often as an exclamation or part of an exclamation. It typically expresses an emotional reaction, is not syntactically related to other accompanying expressions, and may include a combination of sounds not otherwise found in the language.

Note that words primarily belonging to another part of speech retains their original category when used in exclamations. For example, in the phrase ¡Dios mío!, Dios is a NOUN and mío is a PRON even in exclamatory uses.

As a special case of interjections, we recognize feedback particles such as sí and no. Note that uses of sí and no syntactically related to other accompanying expressions in a sentence are recognized as ADV.

Examples

Marked as interjections:

  • psst
  • ay
  • bravo
  • hola
  • sí, e.g. Sí, porque… “Yes, because…”
  • no, e.g. No, no lo creo “No, I don’t believe it.”

Marked as adverbs:

  • sí, e.g. Votaremos sí “We will vote yes.”
  • no, e.g. No es verdad “It is not true.”
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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.

Spanish nouns have the lexical feature es-feat/Gender. Furthermore, the nouns inflect for es-feat/Number.

Examples

  • chica “girl”
  • gato “cat”
  • árbol “tree”
  • aire “air”
  • belleza “beauty”
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NUM:
numeral

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PART:
particle

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PRON:
pronoun

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PROPN:
proper noun

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