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ADJ: adjective

Definition

Adjectives are words that typically modify nouns and specify their properties or attributes. They may also function as predicates, as in

Το αυτοκίνητο είναι πράσινο. “The car is green.”

The ADJ tag is intended for ordinary adjectives only. See DET for determiners and NUM for cardinal numerals.

Αdjectival ordinal numerals that behave like adjectives both morphologically and syntactically (πρώτος, δεύτερος, εξηκοστός) are tagged as adjectives.

Greek adjectives inflect for el-feat/Gender (μεγάλος – μεγάλη – μεγάλο) “big”, el-feat/Number (μεγάλος – μεγάλοι) and el-feat/Case (μεγάλοι – μεγάλων – μεγάλους).

Non-periphrastic comparative and superlative el-feat/Degree of Greek adjectives are formed using a small set of suffixes or irregular forms.

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Greek)

There are 1065 ADJ lemmas (18%), 2072 ADJ types (20%) and 4047 ADJ tokens (8%). Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of ADJ is: 2 in number of lemmas, 3 in number of types and 6 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent ADJ lemmas: ευρωπαϊκός, όλος, πολύς, μεγάλος, νέος, σημαντικός, ίδιος, εθνικός, πολιτικός, οικονομικός

The 10 most frequent ADJ types: ευρωπαϊκή, ευρωπαϊκό, νέα, όλα, σημαντικό, όλες, ευρωπαϊκής, μεγάλη, πολλές, σημαντική

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: όλος (ADJ 111, ADV 1), νέος (ADJ 98, NOUN 7, ADV 1), σημαντικός (ADJ 64, ADV 1), πολιτικός (ADJ 46, NOUN 11, ADV 1), οικονομικός (ADJ 39, ADV 2), τελευταίος (ADJ 32, ADV 1), δημόσιος (ADJ 30, NOUN 3), νότιος (ADJ 25, ADV 2), άγιος (ADJ 23, PROPN 1, NOUN 1), δυνατός (ADJ 22, ADV 7)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: όλα (ADJ 27, ADV 1), σημαντικό (ADJ 27, ADV 1), τελευταία (ADJ 14, ADV 1), πολιτικών (ADJ 12, NOUN 3), βόρεια (ADV 6, ADJ 3), Αγίου (ADJ 10, NOUN 1), νέου (ADJ 8, ADV 1), νέων (ADJ 10, NOUN 5), πολιτικές (ADJ 9, NOUN 2), πολιτική (NOUN 30, ADJ 9)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of ADJ is 1.945540 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.735982).

The 1st highest number of forms (17) was observed with the lemma “μεγάλος”: μέγιστη, μέγιστης, μείζονα, μείζονες, μεγάλα, μεγάλες, μεγάλη, μεγάλης, μεγάλο, μεγάλος, μεγάλου, μεγάλους, μεγάλων, μεγαλύτερες, μεγαλύτερη, μεγαλύτερης, μεγαλύτερο.

The 2nd highest number of forms (16) was observed with the lemma “πολύς”: περισσοτέρων, περισσότερα, περισσότερες, περισσότερη, περισσότερης, περισσότερο, περισσότεροι, περισσότερος, περισσότερους, πολλά, πολλές, πολλή, πολλοί, πολλούς, πολλών, πολύν.

The 3rd highest number of forms (13) was observed with the lemma “νέος”: Νεώτερης, νέα, νέας, νέες, νέο, νέοι, νέος, νέου, νέους, νέων, νεότατης, νεότερα, νεότερο.

ADJ occurs with 4 features: el-feat/Case (4047; 100% instances), el-feat/Gender (4047; 100% instances), el-feat/Number (4047; 100% instances), el-feat/Degree (181; 4% instances)

ADJ occurs with 12 feature-value pairs: Case=Acc, Case=Dat, Case=Gen, Case=Nom, Case=Voc, Degree=Cmp, Degree=Sup, Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, Gender=Neut, Number=Plur, Number=Sing

ADJ occurs with 51 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing (629 tokens). Examples: ευρωπαϊκή, νέα, κοινή, μεγάλη, σημαντική, ίδια, διεθνή, δική, εθνική, νομική

Relations

ADJ nodes are attached to their parents using 17 different relations: el-dep/amod (3404; 84% instances), el-dep/conj (153; 4% instances), el-dep/xcomp (107; 3% instances), el-dep/root (94; 2% instances), el-dep/nsubj (76; 2% instances), el-dep/ccomp (46; 1% instances), el-dep/obj (33; 1% instances), el-dep/obl (29; 1% instances), el-dep/acl:relcl (24; 1% instances), el-dep/advcl (22; 1% instances), el-dep/orphan (18; 0% instances), el-dep/acl (15; 0% instances), el-dep/csubj (11; 0% instances), el-dep/appos (10; 0% instances), el-dep/nmod (3; 0% instances), el-dep/advmod (1; 0% instances), el-dep/parataxis (1; 0% instances)

Parents of ADJ nodes belong to 10 different parts of speech: NOUN (3244; 80% instances), VERB (331; 8% instances), ADJ (165; 4% instances), PROPN (151; 4% instances), ROOT (94; 2% instances), X (27; 1% instances), PRON (19; 0% instances), NUM (9; 0% instances), ADV (6; 0% instances), SYM (1; 0% instances)

3214 (79%) ADJ nodes are leaves.

403 (10%) ADJ nodes have one child.

135 (3%) ADJ nodes have two children.

295 (7%) ADJ nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a ADJ node is 10.

Children of ADJ nodes are attached using 24 different relations: el-dep/punct (257; 13% instances), el-dep/nmod (243; 12% instances), el-dep/advmod (240; 12% instances), el-dep/cop (215; 11% instances), el-dep/det (183; 9% instances), el-dep/conj (168; 9% instances), el-dep/cc (154; 8% instances), el-dep/nsubj (148; 7% instances), el-dep/mark (61; 3% instances), el-dep/case (60; 3% instances), el-dep/amod (49; 2% instances), el-dep/aux (37; 2% instances), el-dep/csubj (37; 2% instances), el-dep/advcl (33; 2% instances), el-dep/nummod (28; 1% instances), el-dep/acl (23; 1% instances), el-dep/orphan (14; 1% instances), el-dep/appos (8; 0% instances), el-dep/acl:relcl (6; 0% instances), el-dep/vocative (4; 0% instances), el-dep/obj (2; 0% instances), el-dep/obl (2; 0% instances), el-dep/parataxis (2; 0% instances), el-dep/iobj (1; 0% instances)

Children of ADJ nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: NOUN (329; 17% instances), PUNCT (257; 13% instances), ADV (222; 11% instances), AUX (215; 11% instances), DET (179; 9% instances), ADJ (165; 8% instances), CCONJ (152; 8% instances), VERB (118; 6% instances), PRON (74; 4% instances), PART (69; 3% instances), SCONJ (62; 3% instances), ADP (59; 3% instances), NUM (29; 1% instances), PROPN (25; 1% instances), X (20; 1% instances)


ADJ in other languages: [am] [ar] [bg] [bxr] [ca] [ckb] [cop] [cs] [cu] [da] [de] [el] [en] [es] [et] [eu] [fa] [fi] [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] [sv] [swl] [ta] [tr] [ug] [uk] [u] [urj] [ur] [vi] [yue] [zh]