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Mood: mood

In English, Mood is a feature of finite verbs. It is used to express modality and further subclassify finite verb forms.

Ind: indicative

The indicative can be considered the default mood. A verb in indicative merely states that something happens, has happened or will happen, without adding any attitude of the speaker.

Examples

Imp: imperative

The speaker uses imperative to order or ask the addressee to do the action of the verb.

Examples

Sub: subjunctive

The subjunctive mood is used under certain circumstances in subordinate clauses, typically for actions that are subjective or otherwise uncertain such as expressing an opinion or describing one’s state of mind. It is also used to make statements contrary to fact.

(Note that there is currently no reliable way of identifying subjunctive verbs in an automatic way and therefore we currently also mark present subjunctive verbs as infinitives and past subjunctive verbs as past indicative verbs.)


Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 2 different values: Imp, Ind.

18690 tokens (8%) have a non-empty value of Mood. 1910 types (11%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Mood. 1044 lemmas (7%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Mood. The feature is used with 2 part-of-speech tags: en-pos/VERB (10305; 4% instances), en-pos/AUX (8385; 4% instances).

VERB

10305 en-pos/VERB tokens (40% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Mood.

The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Mood co-occurred: VerbForm=Fin (10305; 100%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Mood:

Paradigm haveIndImp
Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Preshas, haves
Tense=Pasthad
Tense=Preshave
have

AUX

8385 en-pos/AUX tokens (61% of all AUX tokens) have a non-empty value of Mood.

The most frequent other feature values with which AUX and Mood co-occurred: VerbForm=Fin (8385; 100%), Tense=Pres (6211; 74%), Number=Sing (4707; 56%), Person=3 (4371; 52%).

AUX tokens may have the following values of Mood:

Paradigm beIndImp
Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pastwas
Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Presam
Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pastwas
Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Presis, 's, s, ’s, ai
Number=Sing|Tense=Pastwas
Tense=Pastwere
Tense=Presare, 'm, 're, m, r, re, ai, ’m, is
be

Relations with Agreement in Mood

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Mood: VERB –[conj]–> VERB (929; 60%), AUX –[cop]–> AUX (2; 100%), VERB –[list]–> VERB (2; 67%), AUX –[parataxis]–> VERB (2; 100%), AUX –[aux]–> AUX (1; 100%), VERB –[compound:prt]–> VERB (1; 100%).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-ParTUT)

This feature is universal. It occurs with 3 different values: Imp, Ind, Sub.

2820 tokens (7%) have a non-empty value of Mood. 708 types (11%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Mood. 480 lemmas (9%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Mood. The feature is used with 2 part-of-speech tags: en-pos/AUX (1493; 4% instances), en-pos/VERB (1327; 3% instances).

AUX

1493 en-pos/AUX tokens (83% of all AUX tokens) have a non-empty value of Mood.

The most frequent other feature values with which AUX and Mood co-occurred: VerbForm=Fin (1493; 100%), Person=3 (1130; 76%), Tense=Pres (1016; 68%).

AUX tokens may have the following values of Mood:

Paradigm beIndSub
Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Presam, 'm
Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pastwere
Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Presare
Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pastwas
Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Presis, 's
Number=Plur|Tense=Pastwere
Number=Plur|Tense=Presare, 're
Person=3|Tense=Presbe

VERB

1327 en-pos/VERB tokens (37% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Mood.

The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Mood co-occurred: VerbForm=Fin (1326; 100%), Person=3 (902; 68%), Tense=Pres (794; 60%).

VERB tokens may have the following values of Mood:

Paradigm beIndSub
Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pastwas
Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Presis, 's
Number=Plur|Tense=Pastwere
Number=Plur|Tense=Presare
Person=3|Tense=Presbe

Mood seems to be lexical feature of VERB. 96% lemmas (458) occur only with one value of Mood.

Relations with Agreement in Mood

The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Mood: VERB –[conj]–> VERB (86; 51%), AUX –[conj]–> AUX (2; 100%), VERB –[goeswith]–> VERB (1; 100%).


Mood 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] [u] [ug] [uk] [ur] [urj] [vi] [yue] [zh]