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DET: determiner

Definition

Determiners are words that modify nouns or noun phrases and express the reference of the noun phrase in context. Like adjectives, Italian determiners typically agree with the noun they modify for gender and number, e.g. questo libro “this book” (masculin singular), i libri “the books” (masculin plural), la carta “the paper” (feminine singular).

In Italian, usually a nominal allows for one DET modifier only, with the following exceptions:

Corresponding language-specific part-of-speech tags

RD: Definite article

RI: Indefinite article

DE: Exclamative determiner

DI: Indefinite determiner

DQ: Interrogative determiner

DR: Relative determiner

DD: Demonstrative determiner

T: Predeterminer

AP: Possessive adjective

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)

There are 75 DET lemmas (0%), 145 DET types (0%) and 43709 DET tokens (16%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of DET is: 10 in number of lemmas, 9 in number of types and 2 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent DET lemmas: il, uno, suo, questo, quale, tutto, ogni, che, loro, alcuno

The 10 most frequent DET types: il, la, l’, i, le, un, una, gli, lo, quale

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: il (DET 34058, PRON 3, NOUN 1), uno (DET 4256, PRON 204, NUM 37, ADJ 2), suo (DET 989, PRON 13), questo (DET 646, PRON 226), quale (DET 512, PRON 311, ADP 20, ADV 5, SCONJ 2), tutto (DET 349, PRON 215, ADJ 12, ADV 10, NOUN 5), che (PRON 2130, SCONJ 1250, DET 248, ADP 33, CONJ 27), loro (DET 242, PRON 75), alcuno (DET 181, PRON 38), quanto (PRON 190, DET 178, ADV 78, ADP 8, SCONJ 3, CONJ 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: la (DET 8106, PRON 122, X 2, PROPN 1), l’ (DET 4183, PRON 93), i (DET 3875, ADJ 10, NOUN 1, X 1), le (DET 3375, PRON 94), un (DET 2191, NUM 16, PRON 1), una (DET 1446, PRON 59, NUM 15, ADJ 2, NOUN 1), gli (DET 1373, PRON 113), lo (DET 567, PRON 304), quale (DET 251, PRON 131, ADP 10, SCONJ 1), sua (DET 385, PRON 4)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of DET is 1.933333 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.491496).

The 1st highest number of forms (9) was observed with the lemma “il”: gli, i, il, l’, la, le, lo, lu, l’.

The 2nd highest number of forms (7) was observed with the lemma “quello”: quegli, quei, quel, quell’, quella, quelle, quello.

The 3rd highest number of forms (6) was observed with the lemma “questo”: Quest’, quest’, questa, queste, questi, questo.

DET occurs with 6 features: it-feat/PronType (43709; 100% instances), it-feat/Number (43098; 99% instances), it-feat/Definite (38377; 88% instances), it-feat/Gender (37259; 85% instances), it-feat/Poss (1735; 4% instances), it-feat/Degree (6; 0% instances)

DET occurs with 16 feature-value pairs: Definite=Def, Definite=Ind, Degree=Abs, Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, Poss=Yes, PronType=Art, PronType=Dem, PronType=Exc, PronType=Ind, PronType=Int, PronType=Predet, PronType=Prs, PronType=Rel

DET occurs with 51 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art (11441 tokens). Examples: il, lo, l’, le, lu, l’

Relations

DET nodes are attached to their parents using 5 different relations: it-dep/det (41588; 95% instances), it-dep/det:poss (1777; 4% instances), it-dep/det:predet (327; 1% instances), it-dep/conj (11; 0% instances), it-dep/mwe (6; 0% instances)

Parents of DET nodes belong to 12 different parts of speech: NOUN (38613; 88% instances), PROPN (3038; 7% instances), NUM (841; 2% instances), PRON (675; 2% instances), ADJ (190; 0% instances), VERB (158; 0% instances), SYM (83; 0% instances), ADV (58; 0% instances), ADP (33; 0% instances), X (11; 0% instances), PUNCT (6; 0% instances), DET (3; 0% instances)

43684 (100%) DET nodes are leaves.

12 (0%) DET nodes have one child.

10 (0%) DET nodes have two children.

3 (0%) DET nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a DET node is 3.

Children of DET nodes are attached using 9 different relations: it-dep/cc (9; 22% instances), it-dep/conj (9; 22% instances), it-dep/nmod (9; 22% instances), it-dep/punct (5; 12% instances), it-dep/advcl (3; 7% instances), it-dep/advmod (3; 7% instances), it-dep/acl:relcl (1; 2% instances), it-dep/appos (1; 2% instances), it-dep/nummod (1; 2% instances)

Children of DET nodes belong to 9 different parts of speech: NOUN (11; 27% instances), CONJ (9; 22% instances), PUNCT (5; 12% instances), VERB (5; 12% instances), ADV (3; 7% instances), DET (3; 7% instances), PROPN (3; 7% instances), ADJ (1; 2% instances), NUM (1; 2% instances)


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