ADJ

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`ADJ`: adjective

Description

Adjectives typically modify nouns. In Basque, the adjective follows the noun, although some of them precede it.

Examples

Following the noun: etxe handia “big house”
Preceding the noun: goiko etxea “the upper house”

Treebank Statistics (UD_Basque)

There are 1018 ADJ lemmas (10%), 2149 ADJ types (10%) and 4772 ADJ tokens (5%). Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of ADJ is: 3 in number of lemmas, 4 in number of types and 7 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent ADJ lemmas: handi, on, nagusi, berri, bakar, politiko, oso, batu, garrantzitsu, berezi

The 10 most frequent ADJ types: handia, ona, bakarra, nagusia, zaila, hurrengo, berria, onena, berri, nagusi

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: handi (ADJ 254, NOUN 2), on (ADJ 167, NOUN 3), nagusi (ADJ 135, NOUN 7), berri (ADJ 101, NOUN 26), bakar (ADJ 71, NOUN 1), politiko (ADJ 70, NOUN 4), oso (ADV 192, ADJ 65), batu (ADJ 60, VERB 13, NOUN 1), txiki (ADJ 51, NOUN 2), gogor (ADJ 49, ADV 24, NOUN 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: hurrengo (ADJ 24, ADV 5), berria (ADJ 30, NOUN 5), berri (ADJ 28, NOUN 15), nagusi (ADJ 27, NOUN 4), nazioarteko (ADJ 13, NOUN 3), olinpiar (ADJ 3, NOUN 2), politiko (ADJ 20, NOUN 3), zuzen (ADJ 20, ADV 3), bizi (ADJ 17, NOUN 13), berriak (ADJ 15, NOUN 3)

hurrengo
- ADJ 24: Garaileak Fernadoren aurka jokatu beharko du hurrengo kanporaketa .
- ADV 5: Sendoagoa izan zen hurrengo hirukotearen ahalegina :
berria
- ADJ 30: Mexikon gobernatzeko “ era berria “ martxan jarriko duela agindu du .
- NOUN 5: BBCko web orrian ere jasotzen da berria .
berri
- ADJ 28: Pinochetek 85 urte bete berri ditu .
- NOUN 15: Guzti horren berri badute nafarrek .
nagusi
- ADJ 27: Aurten futbolean urdina da nagusi :
- NOUN 4: 1986an Kasparov nagusi izan zen berriro ( 12,5-11,5 ) .
nazioarteko
- ADJ 13: Tratamendu zabala eman diote nazioarteko hedabideetan .
- NOUN 3: AIk exijituko du aldaketak nazioarteko arautegiaren barruan egiteko .
olinpiar
- ADJ 3: Atlantan eta Sydneyn , laugarren eta seigarren izatea , olinpiar diploma irabaziz , postu duinak dira .
- NOUN 2: Almudena Cid gazteiztarrak bere bigarren olinpiar finala jokatuko du gaur .
politiko
- ADJ 20: 518 ordezkari joango dira , euskal preso politiko bakoitzeko bana .
- NOUN 3: IPAR IRLANDAKO politiko nazionalista eta unionistek gaitzetsi zuten atentatua .
zuzen
- ADJ 20: Hain zuzen ere , etenaldi horretaz mintzatu zen Patrice Lagisquet entrenatzaile lapurtarra :
- ADV 3: Hain zuzen , orain dela hamar urte egin zuen Argentinarako lehen bidaia Salazarrek .
bizi
- ADJ 17: MIARRITZEN bizi da , Maltan jaio zen eta eskoziarra da .
- NOUN 13: - Eskerrak ez nintzen garai hartan bizi izan !
berriak
- ADJ 15: Landare zaharrean puja berriak sortuz berrituko da .
- NOUN 3: Iturri horrek ukatu egin zituen egunkari batek kaleratutako berriak .

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of ADJ is 2.111002 (the average of all parts of speech is 2.106285).

The 1st highest number of forms (37) was observed with the lemma “handi”: handi, handia, handiagatik, handiagoa, handiagoak, handiagoarekin, handiagoaren, handiagoko, handiagora, handiak, handian, handiarekin, handiegia, handiek, handiekin, handien, handiena, handienak, handienek, handieneko, handienetariko, handiengatik, handietako, handietan, handiko, handikoak, handikoen, handikotzat, handirentzat, handirik, handitan, handitarako, handiz, haundi, haundiagoa, haundiagoak, haundirik.

The 2nd highest number of forms (23) was observed with the lemma “on”: Onerako, on, ona, onak, onarekin, onari, onaz, onean, oneko, onena, onenak, onenaren, onenean, onenei, onenek, onenekin, onenen, onenetakoa, onenetan, onera, onetik, onez, onik.

The 3rd highest number of forms (20) was observed with the lemma “txiki”: Txiki”k, Txikitako, txiki, txikia, txikiagoa, txikiagoan, txikiagoz, txikiak, txikian, txikiarekin, txikiaren, txikiei, txikiek, txikiekin, txikiena, txikienari, txikietako, txikietan, txikiko, txikitan.

ADJ occurs with 5 features: eu-feat/Case (3771; 79% instances), eu-feat/Definite (3674; 77% instances), eu-feat/Number (3082; 65% instances), eu-feat/Degree (354; 7% instances), eu-feat/Animacy (7; 0% instances)

ADJ occurs with 23 feature-value pairs: Animacy=Inan, Case=Abl, Case=Abs, Case=All, Case=Ben, Case=Cau, Case=Com, Case=Dat, Case=Erg, Case=Ess, Case=Gen, Case=Ine, Case=Ins, Case=Lat, Case=Loc, Case=Par, Definite=Def, Definite=Ind, Degree=Abs, Degree=Cmp, Degree=Sup, Number=Plur, Number=Sing

ADJ occurs with 86 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Sing (1279 tokens). Examples: handia, ona, bakarra, nagusia, zaila, berria, garrantzitsua, osoa, berezia, gogorra

Relations

ADJ nodes are attached to their parents using 22 different relations: eu-dep/amod (2841; 60% instances), eu-dep/nmod (353; 7% instances), eu-dep/root (305; 6% instances), eu-dep/obl (296; 6% instances), eu-dep/conj (224; 5% instances), eu-dep/nsubj (198; 4% instances), eu-dep/xcomp (84; 2% instances), eu-dep/ccomp (79; 2% instances), eu-dep/obj (77; 2% instances), eu-dep/compound (64; 1% instances), eu-dep/det (64; 1% instances), eu-dep/advcl (54; 1% instances), eu-dep/flat (32; 1% instances), eu-dep/acl (30; 1% instances), eu-dep/dep (18; 0% instances), eu-dep/appos (15; 0% instances), eu-dep/fixed (12; 0% instances), eu-dep/iobj (10; 0% instances), eu-dep/csubj (8; 0% instances), eu-dep/discourse (5; 0% instances), eu-dep/advmod (2; 0% instances), eu-dep/mark (1; 0% instances)

Parents of ADJ nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: NOUN (3275; 69% instances), VERB (823; 17% instances), ROOT (305; 6% instances), ADJ (124; 3% instances), PROPN (76; 2% instances), AUX (65; 1% instances), ADV (29; 1% instances), ADP (22; 0% instances), CCONJ (17; 0% instances), DET (12; 0% instances), NUM (8; 0% instances), PUNCT (7; 0% instances), PRON (4; 0% instances), X (4; 0% instances), SYM (1; 0% instances)

3500 (73%) ADJ nodes are leaves.

678 (14%) ADJ nodes have one child.

174 (4%) ADJ nodes have two children.

420 (9%) ADJ nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a ADJ node is 8.

Children of ADJ nodes are attached using 20 different relations: eu-dep/punct (555; 22% instances), eu-dep/cop (548; 22% instances), eu-dep/nsubj (326; 13% instances), eu-dep/nmod (264; 10% instances), eu-dep/advmod (193; 8% instances), eu-dep/cc (178; 7% instances), eu-dep/conj (114; 5% instances), eu-dep/case (103; 4% instances), eu-dep/csubj (76; 3% instances), eu-dep/amod (31; 1% instances), eu-dep/det (30; 1% instances), eu-dep/acl (25; 1% instances), eu-dep/advcl (17; 1% instances), eu-dep/nummod (15; 1% instances), eu-dep/obj (14; 1% instances), eu-dep/dep (13; 1% instances), eu-dep/aux (9; 0% instances), eu-dep/xcomp (9; 0% instances), eu-dep/flat (8; 0% instances), eu-dep/ccomp (4; 0% instances)

Children of ADJ nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: PUNCT (555; 22% instances), AUX (549; 22% instances), NOUN (380; 15% instances), ADV (198; 8% instances), CCONJ (183; 7% instances), PROPN (180; 7% instances), VERB (138; 5% instances), ADJ (124; 5% instances), ADP (103; 4% instances), DET (70; 3% instances), NUM (29; 1% instances), PRON (13; 1% instances), PART (7; 0% instances), X (2; 0% instances), INTJ (1; 0% instances)