Poss: possessive
In English, Poss is a Boolean feature of pronouns. It tells whether the word is possessive.
Yes: it is possesive
The following English pronouns have this feature:
- my, mine, your, yours, his, her (if it has the PTB tag
PRP$), hers, its, our, ours, their, theirs, whose
Note that there is no No value. If the word is not possessive, the Poss feature will just not be mentioned in the FEAT column.
Treebank Statistics (UD_English)
This feature is universal.
It occurs with 1 different values: Yes.
3337 tokens (1%) have a non-empty value of Poss.
21 types (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Poss.
9 lemmas (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Poss.
The feature is used with 1 part-of-speech tags: en-pos/PRON (3337; 1% instances).
PRON
3337 en-pos/PRON tokens (16% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of Poss.
The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Poss co-occurred: Case=EMPTY (3337; 100%), PronType=Prs (3323; 100%), Gender=EMPTY (2606; 78%), Number=Sing (1735; 52%).
PRON tokens may have the following values of Poss:
Yes(3337; 100% of non-emptyPoss): my, your, their, his, our, its, her, whose, Theirs, youEMPTY(17458): i, you, it, they, we, that, he, me, this, what
Relations with Agreement in Poss
The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Poss:
PRON –[nmod:poss]–> PRON (2; 100%).
Treebank Statistics (UD_English-ParTUT)
This feature is universal.
It occurs with 1 different values: Yes.
520 tokens (1%) have a non-empty value of Poss.
16 types (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Poss.
8 lemmas (0%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Poss.
The feature is used with 2 part-of-speech tags: en-pos/DET (514; 1% instances), en-pos/PRON (6; 0% instances).
DET
514 en-pos/DET tokens (13% of all DET tokens) have a non-empty value of Poss.
The most frequent other feature values with which DET and Poss co-occurred: PronType=Prs (514; 100%), Definite=EMPTY (514; 100%), Number=EMPTY (403; 78%).
DET tokens may have the following values of Poss:
Yes(514; 100% of non-emptyPoss): his, their, its, our, your, my, her, maEMPTY(3501): the, a, this, an, any, these, all, no, some, such
PRON
6 en-pos/PRON tokens (0% of all PRON tokens) have a non-empty value of Poss.
The most frequent other feature values with which PRON and Poss co-occurred: Person=EMPTY (6; 100%), PronType=Prs (6; 100%), Gender=EMPTY (6; 100%), Number=EMPTY (5; 83%).
PRON tokens may have the following values of Poss:
Yes(6; 100% of non-emptyPoss): his, our, oursEMPTY(1492): it, that, which, he, I, we, they, you, this, who
Poss 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]