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Animacy: animacy

Values: Anim Inan

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). On the other hand, in Czech the (almost) only grammatical implications occur within the masculine gender, which is why the PDT tagset does not have animacy as separate feature and instead defines four genders: masculine animate, masculine inanimate, feminine and neuter.

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.

PDT examples of masculine inanimate nouns:


Treebank Statistics (UD_Czech)

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

278115 tokens (21%) have a non-empty value of Animacy. 58515 types (49%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Animacy. 26931 lemmas (49%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Animacy. The feature is used with 8 part-of-speech tags: cs-pos/NOUN (145228; 11% instances), cs-pos/ADJ (67771; 5% instances), cs-pos/PROPN (43715; 3% instances), cs-pos/VERB (11242; 1% instances), cs-pos/DET (5524; 0% instances), cs-pos/PRON (3239; 0% instances), cs-pos/AUX (1118; 0% instances), cs-pos/NUM (278; 0% instances).

NOUN

145228 cs-pos/NOUN tokens (44% of all NOUN tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which NOUN and Animacy co-occurred: Gender=Masc (145228; 100%), Polarity=Pos (145217; 100%), Number=Sing (94678; 65%).

NOUN tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

Paradigm členAnimInan
Case=Acc|Number=Singčlena
Case=Acc|Number=Plurčleny
Case=Dat|Number=Singčlenu, členovi
Case=Dat|Number=Plurčlenůmčlenům
Case=Gen|Number=Singčlena
Case=Gen|Number=Plurčlenůčlenů
Case=Ins|Number=SingčlenemČLENEM
Case=Ins|Number=Plurčlenyčleny
Case=Loc|Number=Singčlenovi, členu
Case=Loc|Number=Plurčlenech
Case=Nom|Number=Singčlenčlen
Case=Nom|Number=Plurčlenové

Animacy seems to be lexical feature of NOUN. 99% lemmas (6607) occur only with one value of Animacy.

ADJ

67771 cs-pos/ADJ tokens (40% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and Animacy co-occurred: Gender=Masc (66225; 98%), Polarity=Pos (63574; 94%), Degree=Pos (58151; 86%), Number=Sing (40956; 60%).

ADJ tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

Paradigm českýAnimInan
Case=Acc|Number=Singčeskéhočeský
Case=Acc|Number=Plurčeskéčeské
Case=Dat|Number=Singčeskémučeskému
Case=Dat|Number=Plurčeským, českýchčeským
Case=Gen|Number=Singčeskéhočeského
Case=Gen|Number=Plurčeskýchčeských
Case=Ins|Number=Singčeskýmčeským
Case=Ins|Number=Plurčeskýmičeskými
Case=Loc|Number=Singčeskémčeském
Case=Loc|Number=Plurčeskýchčeských
Case=Nom|Number=Singčeskýčeský
Case=Nom|Number=Plurčeštíčeské

PROPN

43715 cs-pos/PROPN tokens (58% of all PROPN tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which PROPN and Animacy co-occurred: Gender=Masc (43715; 100%), Polarity=Pos (43715; 100%), Abbr=EMPTY (40687; 93%), Number=Sing (37156; 85%), Case=Nom (24699; 57%).

PROPN tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

Paradigm YorkAnimInan
Case=Acc|NameType=GeoYork
Case=Gen|NameType=GeoYorku
Case=Loc|NameType=GeoYorku
Case=Nom|NameType=GeoYork, YORK
Case=Nom|NameType=SurYORK

Animacy seems to be lexical feature of PROPN. 99% lemmas (9651) occur only with one value of Animacy.

VERB

11242 cs-pos/VERB tokens (9% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Animacy co-occurred: Number=Plur (11242; 100%), Mood=EMPTY (11242; 100%), Person=EMPTY (11242; 100%), Voice=Act (11242; 100%), Tense=Past (11242; 100%), VerbForm=Part (11242; 100%), Polarity=Pos (10244; 91%), Gender=Masc (7462; 66%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

Paradigm mítAnimInan
Gender=Masc|Polarity=Negneměli
Gender=Masc|Polarity=Posměli
Gender=Fem,Masc|Polarity=Negneměly
Gender=Fem,Masc|Polarity=Posměly

DET

5524 cs-pos/DET tokens (11% of all DET tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which DET and Animacy co-occurred: Gender=Masc (5524; 100%), Person=EMPTY (5193; 94%), Number[psor]=EMPTY (5193; 94%), Poss=EMPTY (4675; 85%), Number=Plur (3549; 64%), Case=Nom (3284; 59%).

DET tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

Paradigm tenAnimInan
Case=Acc|Number=Singtohoten
Case=Acc|Number=Plurtyty
Case=Nom|Number=Plurtity

PRON

3239 cs-pos/PRON tokens (8% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Animacy co-occurred: Variant=EMPTY (3239; 100%), Reflex=EMPTY (3239; 100%), PrepCase=EMPTY (3184; 98%), Person=EMPTY (3168; 98%), Number=EMPTY (3073; 95%), PronType=Int,Rel (2333; 72%), Case=Nom (1864; 58%), Gender=EMPTY (1629; 50%).

PRON tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

Paradigm onAnimInan
oniony

Animacy seems to be lexical feature of PRON. 91% lemmas (20) occur only with one value of Animacy.

AUX

1118 cs-pos/AUX tokens (3% of all AUX tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which AUX and Animacy co-occurred: Tense=Past (1118; 100%), VerbForm=Part (1118; 100%), Mood=EMPTY (1118; 100%), Person=EMPTY (1118; 100%), Number=Plur (1118; 100%), Voice=Act (1118; 100%), Polarity=Pos (1005; 90%), Gender=Fem,Masc (760; 68%).

AUX tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

Paradigm býtAnimInan
Gender=Masc|Polarity=Negnebyli
Gender=Masc|Polarity=Posbyli
Gender=Fem,Masc|Polarity=Negnebyly
Gender=Fem,Masc|Polarity=Posbyly

NUM

278 cs-pos/NUM tokens (1% of all NUM tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which NUM and Animacy co-occurred: Gender=Masc (278; 100%), NumForm=Word (278; 100%), NumValue=1,2,3 (278; 100%), Number=Sing (278; 100%), Case=Acc (278; 100%), NumType=Card (278; 100%).

NUM tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

Paradigm jedenAnimInan
jednohojeden

Relations with Agreement in Animacy

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Animacy: NOUN –[amod]–> ADJ (55694; 97%), PROPN –[flat]–> PROPN (10645; 99%), PROPN –[nmod]–> NOUN (6502; 87%), PROPN –[conj]–> PROPN (2637; 67%), ADJ –[conj]–> ADJ (1988; 86%), PROPN –[amod]–> ADJ (1672; 72%), ADJ –[nsubj]–> NOUN (1549; 69%), PROPN –[appos]–> NOUN (636; 78%), NOUN –[nsubj]–> PROPN (258; 57%), NOUN –[case]–> NOUN (212; 53%).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Czech-CAC)

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

95863 tokens (20%) have a non-empty value of Animacy. 26426 types (43%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Animacy. 12475 lemmas (44%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Animacy. The feature is used with 8 part-of-speech tags: cs-pos/NOUN (55158; 11% instances), cs-pos/ADJ (28657; 6% instances), cs-pos/PROPN (5351; 1% instances), cs-pos/VERB (3195; 1% instances), cs-pos/DET (2015; 0% instances), cs-pos/PRON (841; 0% instances), cs-pos/AUX (548; 0% instances), cs-pos/NUM (98; 0% instances).

NOUN

55158 cs-pos/NOUN tokens (41% of all NOUN tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which NOUN and Animacy co-occurred: Gender=Masc (55158; 100%), Polarity=Pos (55153; 100%), Number=Sing (34983; 63%).

NOUN tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

Paradigm druhAnimInan
Case=Acc|Number=Singdruhadruh
Case=Acc|Number=Plurdruhy
Case=Dat|Number=Singdruhu
Case=Dat|Number=Plurdruhům
Case=Gen|Number=Singdruhu
Case=Gen|Number=Plurdruhů
Case=Ins|Number=Singdruhem
Case=Ins|Number=Plurdruhy
Case=Loc|Number=Singdruhu
Case=Loc|Number=Plurdruzích
Case=Nom|Number=Singdruh
Case=Nom|Number=Plurdruzidruhy

Animacy seems to be lexical feature of NOUN. 99% lemmas (3929) occur only with one value of Animacy.

ADJ

28657 cs-pos/ADJ tokens (39% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and Animacy co-occurred: Polarity=Pos (27573; 96%), Gender=Masc (27541; 96%), Degree=Pos (24617; 86%), Number=Sing (15727; 55%).

ADJ tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

Paradigm velkýAnimInan
Case=Acc|Degree=Pos|Number=Sing|Polarity=Negnevelký
Case=Acc|Degree=Pos|Number=Sing|Polarity=Posvelkéhovelký
Case=Acc|Degree=Pos|Number=Plur|Polarity=Posvelkévelké
Case=Acc|Degree=Cmp|Number=Sing|Polarity=Posvětší
Case=Acc|Degree=Cmp|Number=Plur|Polarity=Posvětšívětší
Case=Acc|Degree=Sup|Number=Sing|Polarity=Posnejvětší
Case=Acc|Degree=Sup|Number=Plur|Polarity=Posnejvětší
Case=Dat|Degree=Pos|Number=Sing|Polarity=Posvelkému
Case=Dat|Degree=Pos|Number=Plur|Polarity=Posvelkýmvelkým
Case=Dat|Degree=Cmp|Number=Sing|Polarity=Posvětšímu
Case=Dat|Degree=Cmp|Number=Plur|Polarity=Posvětším
Case=Gen|Degree=Pos|Number=Sing|Polarity=Posvelkéhovelkého
Case=Gen|Degree=Pos|Number=Plur|Polarity=Posvelkýchvelkých
Case=Gen|Degree=Cmp|Number=Sing|Polarity=Posvětšího
Case=Gen|Degree=Cmp|Number=Plur|Polarity=Posvětšíchvětších
Case=Gen|Degree=Sup|Number=Sing|Polarity=Posnejvětšíhonejvětšího
Case=Gen|Degree=Sup|Number=Plur|Polarity=Posnejvětšíchnejvětších
Case=Ins|Degree=Pos|Number=Sing|Polarity=Negnevelkým
Case=Ins|Degree=Pos|Number=Sing|Polarity=Posvelkýmvelkým
Case=Ins|Degree=Pos|Number=Plur|Polarity=Posvelkýmivelkými
Case=Ins|Degree=Cmp|Number=Sing|Polarity=Posvětším
Case=Ins|Degree=Cmp|Number=Plur|Polarity=Posvětšími
Case=Ins|Degree=Sup|Number=Sing|Polarity=Posnejvětšímnejvětším
Case=Ins|Degree=Sup|Number=Plur|Polarity=PosNejvětšíminejvětšími
Case=Loc|Degree=Pos|Number=Sing|Polarity=Posvelkém
Case=Loc|Degree=Pos|Number=Plur|Polarity=Posvelkých
Case=Loc|Degree=Cmp|Number=Sing|Polarity=Posvětším
Case=Loc|Degree=Cmp|Number=Plur|Polarity=Posvětších
Case=Loc|Degree=Sup|Number=Sing|Polarity=Posnejvětším
Case=Nom|Degree=Pos|Number=Sing|Polarity=Negnevelký
Case=Nom|Degree=Pos|Number=Sing|Polarity=Posvelkývelký
Case=Nom|Degree=Pos|Number=Plur|Polarity=Posvelcívelké
Case=Nom|Degree=Cmp|Number=Sing|Polarity=Posvětší
Case=Nom|Degree=Cmp|Number=Plur|Polarity=Posvětší
Case=Nom|Degree=Sup|Number=Sing|Polarity=Posnejvětšínejvětší
Case=Nom|Degree=Sup|Number=Plur|Polarity=Posnejvětší

PROPN

5351 cs-pos/PROPN tokens (55% of all PROPN tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which PROPN and Animacy co-occurred: Gender=Masc (5351; 100%), Polarity=Pos (5351; 100%), Abbr=EMPTY (4747; 89%), Number=Sing (4386; 82%).

PROPN tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

Paradigm MartinAnimInan
Case=Acc|NameType=Giv|Number=SingMartina
Case=Dat|NameType=Giv|Number=SingMartinu
Case=Gen|NameType=Giv|Number=SingMartina
Case=Gen|NameType=Giv|Number=PlurMartinů
Case=Loc|NameType=Geo|Number=SingMartině
Case=Nom|NameType=Giv|Number=SingMartin
Case=Nom|NameType=Sur|Number=SingMartin

Animacy seems to be lexical feature of PROPN. 99% lemmas (2241) occur only with one value of Animacy.

VERB

3195 cs-pos/VERB tokens (8% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Animacy co-occurred: VerbForm=Part (3195; 100%), Tense=Past (3195; 100%), Voice=Act (3195; 100%), Number=Plur (3195; 100%), Mood=EMPTY (3195; 100%), Person=EMPTY (3195; 100%), Polarity=Pos (2981; 93%), Gender=Masc (2038; 64%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

Paradigm mítAnimInan
Gender=Masc|Polarity=Negneměli
Gender=Masc|Polarity=Posměli
Gender=Fem,Masc|Polarity=Negneměly
Gender=Fem,Masc|Polarity=Posměly

DET

2015 cs-pos/DET tokens (11% of all DET tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which DET and Animacy co-occurred: Gender=Masc (2015; 100%), Person=EMPTY (1883; 93%), Number[psor]=EMPTY (1883; 93%), Poss=EMPTY (1758; 87%), Number=Plur (1424; 71%), Case=Nom (1288; 64%).

DET tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

Paradigm tenAnimInan
Case=Acc|Number=Singtohoten
Case=Acc|Number=Plurtyty
Case=Nom|Number=Plurtity

PRON

841 cs-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 (841; 100%), Variant=EMPTY (841; 100%), PrepCase=EMPTY (834; 99%), Person=EMPTY (823; 98%), Number=EMPTY (632; 75%), Case=Nom (517; 61%), PronType=Int,Rel (494; 59%), Gender=Masc (453; 54%).

PRON tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

Paradigm všechnoAnimInan
všichnivšechny

Animacy seems to be lexical feature of PRON. 94% lemmas (17) occur only with one value of Animacy.

AUX

548 cs-pos/AUX tokens (4% of all AUX tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which AUX and Animacy co-occurred: Tense=Past (548; 100%), VerbForm=Part (548; 100%), Person=EMPTY (548; 100%), Mood=EMPTY (548; 100%), Number=Plur (548; 100%), Voice=Act (548; 100%), Polarity=Pos (511; 93%), Gender=Fem,Masc (456; 83%).

AUX tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

Paradigm býtAnimInan
Gender=Masc|Polarity=Negnebyli
Gender=Masc|Polarity=Posbyli
Gender=Fem,Masc|Polarity=Negnebyly
Gender=Fem,Masc|Polarity=Posbyly

NUM

98 cs-pos/NUM tokens (1% 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 (98; 100%), Number=Sing (98; 100%), NumType=Card (98; 100%), Gender=Masc (98; 100%), NumForm=Word (98; 100%), NumValue=1,2,3 (98; 100%).

NUM tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

Paradigm jedenAnimInan
jednohojeden

Relations with Agreement in Animacy

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Animacy: NOUN –[amod]–> ADJ (23513; 97%), ADJ –[conj]–> ADJ (1333; 89%), ADJ –[nsubj]–> NOUN (702; 61%), PROPN –[flat]–> PROPN (701; 99%), PROPN –[nmod]–> NOUN (623; 85%), PROPN –[conj]–> PROPN (530; 61%), PROPN –[amod]–> ADJ (216; 72%), PROPN –[appos]–> NOUN (102; 81%), ADJ –[appos]–> ADJ (52; 91%), ADJ –[nsubj]–> DET (51; 52%).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Czech-CLTT)

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

5230 tokens (20%) have a non-empty value of Animacy. 1310 types (35%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Animacy. 637 lemmas (28%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Animacy. The feature is used with 7 part-of-speech tags: cs-pos/NOUN (3218; 12% instances), cs-pos/ADJ (1813; 7% instances), cs-pos/VERB (109; 0% instances), cs-pos/PRON (43; 0% instances), cs-pos/AUX (19; 0% instances), cs-pos/DET (16; 0% instances), cs-pos/NUM (12; 0% instances).

NOUN

3218 cs-pos/NOUN tokens (39% of all NOUN tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which NOUN and Animacy co-occurred: Gender=Masc (3218; 100%), Polarity=Pos (3218; 100%), Number=Sing (2025; 63%).

NOUN tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

Paradigm členAnimInan
Case=Acc|Number=Plurčleny
Case=Dat|Number=Plurčlenům
Case=Gen|Number=Singčlena
Case=Gen|Number=Plurčlenůčlenů
Case=Ins|Number=Plurčleny

Animacy seems to be lexical feature of NOUN. 100% lemmas (260) occur only with one value of Animacy.

ADJ

1813 cs-pos/ADJ tokens (39% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and Animacy co-occurred: Gender=Masc (1772; 98%), Polarity=Pos (1742; 96%), Degree=Pos (1640; 90%), Number=Sing (1008; 56%).

ADJ tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

Paradigm dlouhodobýAnimInan
Case=Acc|Number=Singdlouhodobý
Case=Acc|Number=Plurdlouhodobé
Case=Dat|Number=Singdlouhodobému
Case=Dat|Number=PlurDlouhodobým
Case=Gen|Number=Singdlouhodobého
Case=Gen|Number=Plurdlouhodobých
Case=Ins|Number=Singdlouhodobým
Case=Nom|Number=Singdlouhodobý
Case=Nom|Number=Plurdlouhodobé

Animacy seems to be lexical feature of ADJ. 92% lemmas (290) occur only with one value of Animacy.

VERB

109 cs-pos/VERB tokens (8% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Animacy co-occurred: VerbForm=Part (109; 100%), Number=Plur (109; 100%), Person=EMPTY (109; 100%), Mood=EMPTY (109; 100%), Gender=Fem,Masc (107; 98%), Polarity=Pos (106; 97%), Voice=Pass (81; 74%), Tense=EMPTY (81; 74%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

Animacy seems to be lexical feature of VERB. 100% lemmas (53) occur only with one value of Animacy.

PRON

43 cs-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: Variant=EMPTY (43; 100%), Gender=Masc (43; 100%), Reflex=EMPTY (43; 100%), PronType=Int,Rel (40; 93%), Number=Plur (37; 86%), Case=Nom (36; 84%).

PRON tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

AUX

19 cs-pos/AUX tokens (4% of all AUX tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which AUX and Animacy co-occurred: Number=Plur (19; 100%), Mood=EMPTY (19; 100%), Person=EMPTY (19; 100%), Voice=Act (18; 95%), VerbForm=Part (18; 95%), Tense=Past (18; 95%), Polarity=Pos (14; 74%).

AUX tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

DET

16 cs-pos/DET tokens (4% of all DET tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which DET and Animacy co-occurred: Gender=Masc (16; 100%), Gender[psor]=EMPTY (15; 94%), Person=EMPTY (15; 94%), Number[psor]=EMPTY (15; 94%), PronType=Dem (13; 81%), Poss=EMPTY (13; 81%), Number=Plur (10; 63%), Case=Acc (10; 63%).

DET tokens may have the following values of Animacy:

NUM

12 cs-pos/NUM tokens (4% of all NUM tokens) have a non-empty value of Animacy.

The most frequent other feature values with which NUM and Animacy co-occurred: NumType=Card (12; 100%), Number=Sing (12; 100%), Case=Acc (12; 100%), NumValue=1,2,3 (12; 100%), Gender=Masc (12; 100%), NumForm=Word (12; 100%).

NUM 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 (1598; 93%), ADJ –[conj]–> ADJ (55; 67%), ADJ –[dep]–> NOUN (5; 100%), ADJ –[appos]–> ADJ (2; 100%), NOUN –[xcomp]–> ADJ (2; 67%), AUX –[conj]–> NOUN (1; 100%), ADJ –[conj]–> NOUN (1; 100%).


Animacy in other languages: [am] [ar] [bg] [bxr] [ca] [ckb] [cop] [cs] [cu] [da] [de] [el] [en] [es] [et] [eu] [fa] [fo] [fr] [ga] [gl] [got] [grc] [he] [hi] [hr] [hu] [id] [it] [ja] [kk] [kmr] [ko] [la] [lv] [mr] [nl] [no] [pl] [pt] [ro] [ru] [sa] [sk] [sla] [sl] [so] [sr] [swl] [ta] [tr] [u] [ug] [uk] [ur] [vi] [yue] [zh]