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Animacy: animacy

Similarly to Gender, animacy is a lexical feature of nouns and inflectional feature of other parts of speech that mark agreement with nouns. It is independent of gender, therefore it is encoded separately in some tagsets (e.g. all the Multext-East tagsets).

Anim: animate

Human beings, animals, fictional characters, names of professions etc. are all animate. Even nouns that are normally inanimate can be inflected as animate if they are personified. For instance, consider a children’s story about cars where cars live and talk as people; then the cars may become and be inflected as animates.

PDT examples of masculine animate nouns:

Inan: inanimate

Nouns that are not animate are inanimate.

RNC (Russian Narional Corpus) examples of masculine inanimate nouns:


Treebank Statistics (UD_Russian)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 2 different values: Anim, Inan.

51516 tokens (52%) have a non-empty value of Animacy. 26436 types (88%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Animacy. 1 lemmas (0) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Animacy. The feature is used with 11 part-of-speech tags: ru-pos/NOUN (26647; 27% instances), ru-pos/ADJ (12479; 13% instances), ru-pos/PROPN (7601; 8% instances), ru-pos/VERB (2104; 2% instances), ru-pos/DET (1666; 2% instances), ru-pos/NUM (909; 1% instances), ru-pos/PRON (96; 0% instances), ru-pos/X (10; 0% instances), ru-pos/ADV (2; 0% instances), ru-pos/SCONJ (1; 0% instances), ru-pos/SYM (1; 0% instances).

NOUN

26647 ru-pos/NOUN tokens (100% of all NOUN tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which NOUN and Animacy co-occurred: Number=Sing (19912; 75%).

NOUN tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

ADJ

12479 ru-pos/ADJ tokens (100% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and Animacy co-occurred: Number=Sing (9642; 77%).

ADJ tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

PROPN

7601 ru-pos/PROPN tokens (100% of all PROPN tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which PROPN and Animacy co-occurred: Number=Sing (7362; 97%), Gender=Masc (5255; 69%).

PROPN tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

VERB

2104 ru-pos/VERB tokens (22% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Animacy co-occurred: Mood=EMPTY (2102; 100%), Person=EMPTY (2100; 100%), Tense=Past (1685; 80%), Aspect=Perf (1582; 75%), Voice=Pass (1496; 71%), Number=Sing (1453; 69%), Case=Nom (1388; 66%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

DET

1666 ru-pos/DET tokens (100% of all DET tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which DET and Animacy co-occurred: Number=Sing (1242; 75%).

DET tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

NUM

909 ru-pos/NUM tokens (48% of all NUM tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which NUM and Animacy co-occurred: Number=EMPTY (592; 65%).

NUM tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

PRON

96 ru-pos/PRON tokens (5% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Animacy co-occurred: Reflex=EMPTY (96; 100%), Person=EMPTY (94; 98%), Number=Sing (87; 91%), Gender=Neut (73; 76%), Case=Nom (54; 56%).

PRON tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

X

10 ru-pos/X tokens (1% of all X tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

X tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

ADV

2 ru-pos/ADV tokens (0% of all ADV tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

ADV tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

SYM

1 ru-pos/SYM tokens (1% of all SYM tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

SYM tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

SCONJ

1 ru-pos/SCONJ tokens (0% of all SCONJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

SCONJ tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

Relations with Agreement in Animacy

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Animacy: NOUN –[amod]–> ADJ (9899; 100%), NOUN –[nmod]–> NOUN (6452; 80%), NOUN –[conj]–> NOUN (1763; 95%), NOUN –[appos]–> PROPN (1236; 94%), NOUN –[nmod]–> PROPN (1127; 65%), PROPN –[name]–> PROPN (988; 99%), NOUN –[acl]–> VERB (920; 92%), NOUN –[appos]–> NOUN (767; 87%), PROPN –[amod]–> ADJ (736; 100%), NOUN –[det]–> DET (662; 99%).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Russian-SynTagRus)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 2 different values: Anim, Inan.

312440 tokens (30%) have a non-empty value of Animacy. 58390 types (53%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Animacy. 25073 lemmas (63%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Animacy. The feature is used with 4 part-of-speech tags: ru-pos/NOUN (299510; 29% instances), ru-pos/ADJ (10452; 1% instances), ru-pos/VERB (1291; 0% instances), ru-pos/NUM (1187; 0% instances).

NOUN

299510 ru-pos/NOUN tokens (100% of all NOUN tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which NOUN and Animacy co-occurred: Number=Sing (220772; 74%).

NOUN tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

Paradigm ЧЕЛОВЕКAnimInan
Case=Acc|Number=Singчеловека
Case=Acc|Number=Plurлюдей
Case=Dat|Number=Singчеловеку
Case=Dat|Number=Plurлюдям
Case=Gen|Number=Singчеловека, чел.
Case=Gen|Number=Plurлюдей, человек, чел., чел, человековчел
Case=Ins|Number=Singчеловеком
Case=Ins|Number=Plurлюдьми
Case=Loc|Number=Singчеловеке
Case=Loc|Number=Plurлюдях
Case=Nom|Number=Singчеловек
Case=Nom|Number=Plurлюди

Animacy seems to be lexical feature of NOUN. 99% lemmas (21645) occur only with one value of Animacy.

ADJ

10452 ru-pos/ADJ tokens (9% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and Animacy co-occurred: Case=Acc (10451; 100%), Degree=Pos (10393; 99%), Number=Plur (5923; 57%), Gender=EMPTY (5923; 57%).

ADJ tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

Paradigm КОТОРЫЙAnimInan
Gender=Masc|Number=Singкоторогокоторый
Gender=Neut|Number=Singкоторые
Number=Plurкоторыхкоторые

Animacy seems to be lexical feature of ADJ. 91% lemmas (2316) occur only with one value of Animacy.

VERB

1291 ru-pos/VERB tokens (1% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Animacy co-occurred: Mood=EMPTY (1291; 100%), VerbForm=Part (1291; 100%), Case=Acc (1291; 100%), Person=EMPTY (1291; 100%), Number=Plur (778; 60%), Gender=EMPTY (778; 60%), Tense=Past (718; 56%), Voice=Act (668; 52%), Aspect=Perf (652; 51%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

Paradigm ПОЛУЧАТЬAnimInan
Aspect=Imp|Number=Plur|Tense=Pres|Voice=Passполучаемые
Aspect=Perf|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|Voice=Actполучившего
Aspect=Perf|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|Voice=Passполученный
Aspect=Perf|Number=Plur|Tense=Past|Voice=Actполучившихполучившие
Aspect=Perf|Number=Plur|Tense=Past|Voice=Passполученные

Animacy seems to be lexical feature of VERB. 91% lemmas (623) occur only with one value of Animacy.

NUM

1187 ru-pos/NUM tokens (9% of all NUM tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which NUM and Animacy co-occurred: Case=Acc (1187; 100%).

NUM tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

Paradigm ДВАAnimInan
Gender=Mascдвухдва
Gender=Femдвухдве

Relations with Agreement in Animacy

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Animacy: NOUN –[nmod]–> NOUN (43488; 81%), NOUN –[dobj]–> NOUN (23498; 79%), NOUN –[conj]–> NOUN (20303; 95%), NOUN –[appos]–> NOUN (6780; 94%), NOUN –[name]–> NOUN (5021; 100%), NOUN –[nsubj]–> NOUN (4382; 90%), NOUN –[parataxis]–> NOUN (2735; 84%), NOUN –[nummod:gov]–> NOUN (627; 79%), NOUN –[advmod]–> NOUN (557; 85%), NOUN –[cop]–> NOUN (485; 92%).


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