Features
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Case
: case
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Case
only appears for French in rare cases, where a phrase is borrowed from Latin or another case-marked language.
Definite
: definiteness or state
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Determiners have the Definite
feature, which takes either a definite or indefinite value.
Degree
: degree of comparison
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French does not have the Degree
feature. It appears rarely on foreign words, such as English.
Gender
: gender
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The possible values for Gender
in French is masculine or feminine. It occurs with nouns, adjectives, past participles, determiners and pronouns. Words from other languages can have a neutral gender.
Mood
: mood
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Mood
has the four following possible values for French, on finite verb forms:
- Ind: indicative
- Imp: imperative
- Cnd: conditional
- Sub: subjunctive
Negative
: whether the word can be or is negated
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Negative
is not used in the French data.
Number
: number
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Number
in French is either singular or plular. It occurs with nouns, adjectives, pronouns, determiners and verbs. It also occurs with some NUM
which are abberviations for hours such as 00h30.
Person
: person
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Person
is marked for verbs and pronouns in French, as first (1), second (2), or third (3) person.
PronType
: pronominal type
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French uses the following values for `PronType’: definite (Def), indefinite (Ind), negative (Neg), personal (Prs), relative (Rel) and interrogative (Int).
Not all relative and interrogative pronouns are marked so far.
Tense
: tense
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Tense
should only occur on verbs in French, with one of the four following values: Past, Pres, Fut or Imp.
VerbForm
: form of verb or deverbative
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In French VerbForm
is marked on verbs and can take one of the three following values:
- Fin: finite verb
- Inf: infinitive
- Part: participle (some adjectives that fall in the gray zone between adjectives and participles are marked Part too)