Degree: degree of comparison
Definition
Degree of comparison is an inflectional feature of some adjectives and verb participles. A participle has to be tagged as ADJ in order to have the Degree feature.
Possible degrees:
Pos: positive, the base form of an adjective.
Examples: suur maja “big house”,
tuntud poliitik “well-known politician”.
Cmp: comparative. The quality of one things is compared to the same quality of another.
Examples: suurem maja “bigger house”,
tuntum poliitik “better-known politician”.
Sup: superlative. The quality of one object is compared to the same quality of all other objects within a set. Examples: suurim maja “the biggest house”, tuntuim poliitik “the best-known politician”
Treebank Statistics (UD_Estonian)
This feature is universal.
It occurs with 3 different values: Cmp, Pos, Sup.
2055 tokens (6%) have a non-empty value of Degree.
1533 types (14%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Degree.
1044 lemmas (15%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Degree.
The feature is used with 1 part-of-speech tags: et-pos/ADJ (2055; 6% instances).
ADJ
2055 et-pos/ADJ tokens (91% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Degree.
The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and Degree co-occurred: Tense=EMPTY (1756; 85%), Voice=EMPTY (1693; 82%), VerbForm=EMPTY (1693; 82%), Number=Sing (1521; 74%).
ADJ tokens may have the following values of Degree:
Cmp(116; 6% of non-emptyDegree): parem, parema, suuremaks, suurem, vaiksemaks, huvitavamaid, ilusam, kõrgem, kõrgema, lihtsamPos(1920; 93% of non-emptyDegree): hea, suur, püha, vana, noor, kogu, terve, tugev, väike, raskeSup(19; 1% of non-emptyDegree): parim, parima, Kiireim, Suurima, enim, kalleim, kauneimate, kiireima, kõrgeima, lähimatEMPTY(215): esimest, muud, vene, sama, kolmandat, selline, teise, 1992., esimene, esimeses
Degree seems to be lexical feature of ADJ. 100% lemmas (1044) occur only with one value of Degree.
Relations with Agreement in Degree
The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Degree:
ADJ –[conj]–> ADJ (101; 94%),
ADJ –[xcomp]–> ADJ (2; 100%),
ADJ –[csubj:cop]–> ADJ (1; 100%).
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