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)