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Number: number

Number is an inflectional feature of nouns, pronouns,adjectives, determiners and verbs).

Sing: singular number

A singular noun denotes one person, animal or thing.

Examples

• [en] casa “house”, io compro “I buy”

Plur: plural number

A plural noun denotes several persons, animals or things.

Examples

• [en] case “houses”, noi compriamo “we buy”

Dual: dual number

Not used.

Examples

Ptan: plurale tantum

Not used.

Coll: collective / mass / singulare tantum

Not used.

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Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 2 different values: Plur, Sing.

141941 tokens (52%) have a non-empty value of Number. 18589 types (70%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Number. 10425 lemmas (58%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Number. The feature is used with 8 part-of-speech tags: it-pos/NOUN (49414; 18% instances), it-pos/DET (43098; 16% instances), it-pos/VERB (20616; 8% instances), it-pos/ADJ (17008; 6% instances), it-pos/AUX (6971; 3% instances), it-pos/PRON (4829; 2% instances), it-pos/ADP (4; 0% instances), it-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances).

NOUN

49414 it-pos/NOUN tokens (92% of all NOUN tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

The most frequent other feature values with which NOUN and Number co-occurred: Gender=Masc (27216; 55%).

NOUN tokens may have the following values of Number:

• Plur (14497; 29% of non-empty Number): anni, opere, persone, giorni, diritti, membri, paesi, norme, fondi, condizioni
• Sing (34917; 71% of non-empty Number): presidente, parte, fondo, diritto, legge, proprietario, anno, caso, art., stato
• EMPTY (4237): città, società, proprietà, attività, servitù, autorità, radar, film, responsabilità, libertà

Paradigm anno	Sing	Plur
	anno	anni

DET

43098 it-pos/DET tokens (99% of all DET tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

The most frequent other feature values with which DET and Number co-occurred: PronType=Art (38353; 89%), Definite=Def (34084; 79%).

DET tokens may have the following values of Number:

• Plur (10862; 25% of non-empty Number): i, le, gli, tutti, suoi, quanti, sue, alcuni, questi, queste
• Sing (32236; 75% of non-empty Number): il, la, l’, un, una, lo, quale, sua, suo, un’
• EMPTY (611): loro, che, cui, più, altrui, the, A, Every, Il, My

Paradigm il	Sing	Plur
Gender=Masc	il, lo, l', l’, lu	i, gli, il
Gender=Fem	la, l', le, il	le
	l', l’	l'

VERB

20616 it-pos/VERB tokens (78% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Number co-occurred: Gender=EMPTY (12535; 61%), VerbForm=Fin (12171; 59%), Mood=Ind (11117; 54%), Person=3 (11023; 53%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Number:

• Plur (5410; 26% of non-empty Number): sono, hanno, erano, siano, fanno, siamo, stabilite, fatti, stabiliti, applicano
• Sing (15206; 74% of non-empty Number): è, ha, era, trova, fatto, visto, stato, fa, sia, fu
• EMPTY (5886): essere, far, fare, vedere, dire, avere, dare, chiedere, pagare, andare

Paradigm essere	Sing	Plur
Gender=Masc|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	stato	stati
Gender=Fem|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	stata	state
Mood=Cnd|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	sarei	saremmo
Mood=Cnd|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	sarebbe	sarebbero
Mood=Imp|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	sii
Mood=Ind|Person=1|Tense=Fut|VerbForm=Fin	sarò	saremo
Mood=Ind|Person=1|Tense=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	ero	eravamo
Mood=Ind|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	sono	siamo
Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Fut|VerbForm=Fin	sarai
Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Imp|VerbForm=Fin		eravate
Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	sei	siete
Mood=Ind|Person=3|Tense=Fut|VerbForm=Fin	sarà	saranno
Mood=Ind|Person=3|Tense=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	era	erano
Mood=Ind|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	fu	furono
Mood=Ind|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	è, e', É, E’, E`	sono, È
Mood=Sub|Person=1|Tense=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	fossi	fossimo
Mood=Sub|Person=3|Tense=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	fosse	fossero
Mood=Sub|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	sia	siano

ADJ

17008 it-pos/ADJ tokens (98% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

ADJ tokens may have the following values of Number:

• Plur (5468; 32% of non-empty Number): seguenti, altri, grandi, speciali, altre, locali, nazionali, internazionali, precedenti, principali
• Sing (11540; 68% of non-empty Number): grande, presente, comune, primo, possibile, sociale, prima, nazionale, internazionale, importante
• EMPTY (338): ex, pari, anti, gran, fa, vice, blu, maggior, post, antisommossa

Paradigm altro	Sing	Plur
Gender=Masc	altro	altri
Gender=Fem	altra	altre

AUX

6971 it-pos/AUX tokens (93% of all AUX tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

The most frequent other feature values with which AUX and Number co-occurred: VerbForm=Fin (6412; 92%), Person=3 (5962; 86%), Mood=Ind (5644; 81%), Tense=Pres (5478; 79%).

AUX tokens may have the following values of Number:

• Plur (1994; 29% of non-empty Number): sono, hanno, possono, stati, erano, abbiamo, devono, siano, vengono, state
• Sing (4977; 71% of non-empty Number): è, ha, può, stato, deve, era, viene, stata, aveva, sia
• EMPTY (487): essere, aver, poter, esser, dover, avere, voler, essendo, venire, avendo

Paradigm essere	Sing	Plur
Gender=Masc|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	stato	stati
Gender=Fem|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	stata	state
Mood=Cnd|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin		saremmo
Mood=Cnd|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	sarebbe	sarebbero
Mood=Ind|Person=1|Tense=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	ero	eravamo
Mood=Ind|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	Fui
Mood=Ind|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	sono	siamo
Mood=Ind|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	sei	siete
Mood=Ind|Person=3|Tense=Fut|VerbForm=Fin	sarà	saranno
Mood=Ind|Person=3|Tense=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	era	erano
Mood=Ind|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	fu	furono
Mood=Ind|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	è, E'	sono, son
Mood=Sub|Person=1|Tense=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	fossi
Mood=Sub|Person=3|Tense=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	fosse	fossero
Mood=Sub|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	sia	siano

PRON

4829 it-pos/PRON tokens (44% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Number co-occurred: Person=EMPTY (2825; 59%).

PRON tokens may have the following values of Number:

• Plur (1270; 26% of non-empty Number): ci, li, noi, tutti, altri, quelli, loro, quelle, quali, vi
• Sing (3559; 74% of non-empty Number): lo, qual, quanto, mi, quale, quello, la, uno, questo, cosa
• EMPTY (6034): si, che, chi, cui, ne, ci, c’, se, vi, le

Paradigm lo	Sing	Plur
Gender=Masc	lo, gli	li
Gender=Fem	la	le
	l', gli	gli

ADP

4 it-pos/ADP tokens (0% of all ADP tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

ADP tokens may have the following values of Number:

• Plur (1; 25% of non-empty Number): des
• Sing (3; 75% of non-empty Number): del, della, du
• EMPTY (41467): di, a, in, da, per, con, su, come, ad, d’

PROPN

1 it-pos/PROPN tokens (0% of all PROPN tokens) have a non-empty value of Number.

PROPN tokens may have the following values of Number:

• Plur (1; 100% of non-empty Number): hye
• EMPTY (13344): Shakespeare, Balzac, Italia, stati, Europa, San, Uniti, Albania, Marco, Roma

Relations with Agreement in Number

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Number: NOUN –[det]–> DET (33628; 92%), NOUN –[amod]–> ADJ (12477; 90%), NOUN –[nmod]–> NOUN (7827; 52%), VERB –[nsubj]–> NOUN (3990; 78%), VERB –[aux]–> AUX (2954; 59%), NOUN –[conj]–> NOUN (2827; 71%), NOUN –[acl]–> VERB (2168; 72%), VERB –[auxpass]–> AUX (1866; 86%), NOUN –[acl:relcl]–> VERB (1550; 74%), VERB –[nsubjpass]–> NOUN (1330; 89%).

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