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ADJ: adjective

Definition

Adjectives are words that typically modify nouns and specify their properties or attributes. Adjectives in French agree in gender and number with the noun they modify (both in attributive and predicative position)

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

There are 3702 ADJ lemmas (10%), 5726 ADJ types (12%) and 22314 ADJ tokens (6%). Out of 17 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: premier, français, grand, autre, nouveau, même, seul, ancien, dernier, national

The 10 most frequent ADJ types: première, premier, français, même, autres, française, grande, grand, nouveau, autre

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: premier (ADJ 646, NUM 34, NOUN 33, PRON 1), français (ADJ 463, NOUN 70), grand (ADJ 412, NOUN 3), autre (ADJ 378, PRON 111, NOUN 50), nouveau (ADJ 358, NOUN 2), même (ADJ 275, ADV 214, PRON 1), seul (ADJ 217, NOUN 3, ADV 1), ancien (ADJ 211, NOUN 6), dernier (ADJ 210, NOUN 107, PRON 5), national (ADJ 206, NOUN 2)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: première (ADJ 238, NOUN 26, NUM 22), premier (ADJ 244, NUM 34, NOUN 20), français (ADJ 242, NOUN 42), même (ADJ 240, ADV 202), autres (ADJ 241, PRON 65, NOUN 26), française (ADJ 195, NOUN 1, PROPN 1), autre (ADJ 135, PRON 46, NOUN 24), politique (ADJ 119, NOUN 55), nouvelle (ADJ 107, NOUN 12), dernier (ADJ 107, NOUN 61, PRON 3)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of ADJ is 1.546731 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.305637).

The 1st highest number of forms (10) was observed with the lemma “premier”: 1, 1e, 1er, 1re, 1ère, Ier, premier, premiers, première, premières.

The 2nd highest number of forms (6) was observed with the lemma “professionnel”: pro, professionel, professionnel, professionnelle, professionnelles, professionnels.

The 3rd highest number of forms (5) was observed with the lemma “animé”: anime, animé, animée, animées, animés.

ADJ occurs with 4 features: fr-feat/Number (22146; 99% instances), fr-feat/Gender (22137; 99% instances), fr-feat/NumType (194; 1% instances), fr-feat/Degree (1; 0% instances)

ADJ occurs with 7 feature-value pairs: Degree=Cmp, Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, Gender=Neut, NumType=Ord, Number=Plur, Number=Sing

ADJ occurs with 11 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Gender=Masc|Number=Sing (8243 tokens). Examples: premier, français, grand, nouveau, même, dernier, seul, ancien, américain, petit

Relations

ADJ nodes are attached to their parents using 24 different relations: fr-dep/amod (19162; 86% instances), fr-dep/conj (1159; 5% instances), fr-dep/root (921; 4% instances), fr-dep/xcomp (360; 2% instances), fr-dep/ccomp (110; 0% instances), fr-dep/advcl (109; 0% instances), fr-dep/acl:relcl (105; 0% instances), fr-dep/fixed (92; 0% instances), fr-dep/acl (60; 0% instances), fr-dep/case (45; 0% instances), fr-dep/parataxis (39; 0% instances), fr-dep/appos (33; 0% instances), fr-dep/nmod (22; 0% instances), fr-dep/obl (17; 0% instances), fr-dep/advmod (14; 0% instances), fr-dep/compound (14; 0% instances), fr-dep/obj (14; 0% instances), fr-dep/mark (12; 0% instances), fr-dep/nsubj (12; 0% instances), fr-dep/flat:name (8; 0% instances), fr-dep/goeswith (3; 0% instances), fr-dep/det (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/nsubj:pass (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/nummod (1; 0% instances)

Parents of ADJ nodes belong to 16 different parts of speech: NOUN (18658; 84% instances), ADJ (995; 4% instances), ROOT (921; 4% instances), VERB (858; 4% instances), PROPN (641; 3% instances), PRON (92; 0% instances), ADP (74; 0% instances), NUM (29; 0% instances), ADV (21; 0% instances), X (8; 0% instances), SYM (7; 0% instances), INTJ (4; 0% instances), DET (2; 0% instances), PART (2; 0% instances), CCONJ (1; 0% instances), SCONJ (1; 0% instances)

17389 (78%) ADJ nodes are leaves.

2444 (11%) ADJ nodes have one child.

714 (3%) ADJ nodes have two children.

1767 (8%) ADJ nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a ADJ node is 13.

Children of ADJ nodes are attached using 35 different relations: fr-dep/advmod (2144; 17% instances), fr-dep/punct (2123; 17% instances), fr-dep/cop (1470; 12% instances), fr-dep/obl (1440; 12% instances), fr-dep/nsubj (1380; 11% instances), fr-dep/conj (1303; 11% instances), fr-dep/cc (926; 7% instances), fr-dep/det (324; 3% instances), fr-dep/case (214; 2% instances), fr-dep/acl (208; 2% instances), fr-dep/mark (194; 2% instances), fr-dep/advcl (139; 1% instances), fr-dep/aux (79; 1% instances), fr-dep/fixed (72; 1% instances), fr-dep/parataxis (64; 1% instances), fr-dep/amod (52; 0% instances), fr-dep/appos (43; 0% instances), fr-dep/ccomp (34; 0% instances), fr-dep/expl (23; 0% instances), fr-dep/iobj (21; 0% instances), fr-dep/dep (14; 0% instances), fr-dep/flat:name (11; 0% instances), fr-dep/nsubj:pass (11; 0% instances), fr-dep/xcomp (11; 0% instances), fr-dep/nummod (9; 0% instances), fr-dep/compound (8; 0% instances), fr-dep/csubj (8; 0% instances), fr-dep/obj (8; 0% instances), fr-dep/discourse (5; 0% instances), fr-dep/nmod:poss (5; 0% instances), fr-dep/acl:relcl (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/dislocated (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/aux:pass (3; 0% instances), fr-dep/goeswith (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/vocative (1; 0% instances)

Children of ADJ nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: NOUN (2162; 17% instances), PUNCT (2123; 17% instances), ADV (2114; 17% instances), AUX (1552; 13% instances), ADJ (995; 8% instances), CCONJ (893; 7% instances), VERB (676; 5% instances), PRON (614; 5% instances), DET (354; 3% instances), ADP (313; 3% instances), PROPN (258; 2% instances), SCONJ (206; 2% instances), NUM (56; 0% instances), SYM (24; 0% instances), X (8; 0% instances), INTJ (7; 0% instances), PART (2; 0% instances)


Treebank Statistics (UD_French-ParTUT)

There are 429 ADJ lemmas (17%), 567 ADJ types (17%) and 1149 ADJ tokens (6%). Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of ADJ is: 3 in number of lemmas, 3 in number of types and 6 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent ADJ lemmas: présent, européen, social, public, autre, grand, nouveau, premier, dangereux, important

The 10 most frequent ADJ types: européen, présent, présente, dangereuses, grande, structurels, autres, possible, telle, communautaire

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: public (ADJ 19, NOUN 7), autre (ADJ 18, DET 10, PRON 4), tel (ADJ 17, DET 2), même (ADJ 12, ADV 7), commun (ADJ 10, NOUN 1), seul (ADJ 9, ADV 3), haut (ADJ 8, ADV 1), responsable (ADJ 7, NOUN 2), intérieur (ADJ 4, NOUN 1), local (ADJ 4, NOUN 2)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: présente (ADJ 16, VERB 4), autres (ADJ 11, DET 7, PRON 2), public (ADJ 9, NOUN 7), autre (ADJ 7, DET 3, PRON 2), haut (ADJ 5, ADV 1), même (ADV 7, ADJ 5), seul (ADJ 5, ADV 3), intérieur (ADJ 4, NOUN 1), politique (NOUN 8, ADJ 4), numérique (ADJ 3, NOUN 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of ADJ is 1.321678 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.316828).

The 1st highest number of forms (5) was observed with the lemma “premier”: 1er, premier, premiers, première, premières.

The 2nd highest number of forms (4) was observed with the lemma “dernier”: dernier, derniers, dernière, dernières.

The 3rd highest number of forms (4) was observed with the lemma “différent”: différent, différente, différentes, différents.

ADJ occurs with 4 features: fr-feat/Number (1120; 97% instances), fr-feat/Gender (801; 70% instances), fr-feat/NumType (42; 4% instances), fr-feat/PronType (1; 0% instances)

ADJ occurs with 6 feature-value pairs: Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, NumType=Ord, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, PronType=Dem

ADJ occurs with 15 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Gender=Masc|Number=Sing (242 tokens). Examples: européen, présent, public, important, international, nouveau, social, commun, fondamental, haut

Relations

ADJ nodes are attached to their parents using 16 different relations: fr-dep/amod (891; 78% instances), fr-dep/conj (79; 7% instances), fr-dep/root (45; 4% instances), fr-dep/xcomp (33; 3% instances), fr-dep/nmod (20; 2% instances), fr-dep/ccomp (16; 1% instances), fr-dep/obl (14; 1% instances), fr-dep/advcl (13; 1% instances), fr-dep/acl:relcl (10; 1% instances), fr-dep/fixed (6; 1% instances), fr-dep/acl (5; 0% instances), fr-dep/mark (5; 0% instances), fr-dep/obj (5; 0% instances), fr-dep/nsubj (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/case (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/csubj (1; 0% instances)

Parents of ADJ nodes belong to 11 different parts of speech: NOUN (912; 79% instances), VERB (92; 8% instances), ADJ (84; 7% instances), ROOT (45; 4% instances), ADP (4; 0% instances), PROPN (4; 0% instances), PRON (3; 0% instances), AUX (2; 0% instances), ADV (1; 0% instances), NUM (1; 0% instances), X (1; 0% instances)

786 (68%) ADJ nodes are leaves.

207 (18%) ADJ nodes have one child.

44 (4%) ADJ nodes have two children.

112 (10%) ADJ nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a ADJ node is 12.

Children of ADJ nodes are attached using 27 different relations: fr-dep/advmod (106; 13% instances), fr-dep/punct (99; 12% instances), fr-dep/obl (94; 11% instances), fr-dep/cop (92; 11% instances), fr-dep/conj (83; 10% instances), fr-dep/nsubj (74; 9% instances), fr-dep/cc (67; 8% instances), fr-dep/case (38; 5% instances), fr-dep/mark (36; 4% instances), fr-dep/advcl (33; 4% instances), fr-dep/det (22; 3% instances), fr-dep/aux (15; 2% instances), fr-dep/csubj (14; 2% instances), fr-dep/expl (14; 2% instances), fr-dep/amod (8; 1% instances), fr-dep/fixed (7; 1% instances), fr-dep/nummod (7; 1% instances), fr-dep/acl:relcl (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/ccomp (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/dislocated (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/nmod:poss (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/vocative (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/aux:pass (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/discourse (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/iobj (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/nsubj:pass (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/obj (1; 0% instances)

Children of ADJ nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: NOUN (117; 14% instances), AUX (108; 13% instances), ADV (106; 13% instances), PUNCT (99; 12% instances), ADJ (84; 10% instances), PRON (65; 8% instances), CCONJ (64; 8% instances), VERB (57; 7% instances), ADP (48; 6% instances), SCONJ (33; 4% instances), DET (25; 3% instances), NUM (7; 1% instances), PROPN (6; 1% instances), PART (4; 0% instances), SYM (1; 0% instances)


Treebank Statistics (UD_French-Sequoia)

There are 993 ADJ lemmas (15%), 1445 ADJ types (16%) and 3775 ADJ tokens (6%). Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of ADJ is: 3 in number of lemmas, 3 in number of types and 6 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent ADJ lemmas: autre, tout, premier, français, ancien, indésirable, européen, politique, nouveau, général

The 10 most frequent ADJ types: autres, indésirables, ancien, tous, autre, premier, première, zolédronique, français, même

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: autre (ADJ 101, PRON 6), tout (ADJ 85, DET 32, ADV 28, PRON 17), français (ADJ 55, NOUN 6), ancien (ADJ 51, NOUN 1), européen (ADJ 49, NOUN 2), politique (ADJ 48, NOUN 15), nouveau (ADJ 45, NOUN 5), général (ADJ 39, NOUN 11), clinique (ADJ 38, NOUN 1), même (ADJ 34, ADV 24)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: autres (ADJ 61, PRON 2), tous (ADJ 34, PRON 9, DET 4), autre (ADJ 33, PRON 4), première (ADJ 27, NOUN 1), français (ADJ 28, NOUN 1), même (ADJ 28, ADV 22), politique (ADJ 28, NOUN 12), clinique (ADJ 23, NOUN 1), toutes (ADJ 17, DET 3), général (ADJ 20, NOUN 9)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of ADJ is 1.455186 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.389679).

The 1st highest number of forms (5) was observed with the lemma “nouveau”: nouveau, nouveaux, nouvel, nouvelle, nouvelles.

The 2nd highest number of forms (5) was observed with the lemma “quel”: QUELLES, Quel, Quelle, Quelles, quels.

The 3rd highest number of forms (5) was observed with the lemma “spécial”: SPECIALE, SPECIALE(S), spéciale, spéciales, spéciaux.

ADJ occurs with 3 features: fr-feat/Number (3391; 90% instances), fr-feat/Gender (2366; 63% instances), fr-feat/NumType (199; 5% instances)

ADJ occurs with 6 feature-value pairs: Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, NumType=Card, NumType=Ord, Number=Plur, Number=Sing

ADJ occurs with 16 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Gender=Fem|Number=Sing (762 tokens). Examples: européenne, rénale, française, nouvelle, nationale, seule, intraveineuse, osseuse, bonne, générale

Relations

ADJ nodes are attached to their parents using 17 different relations: fr-dep/amod (3212; 85% instances), fr-dep/root (173; 5% instances), fr-dep/conj (157; 4% instances), fr-dep/fixed (71; 2% instances), fr-dep/acl (31; 1% instances), fr-dep/ccomp (29; 1% instances), fr-dep/xcomp (26; 1% instances), fr-dep/advcl (22; 1% instances), fr-dep/acl:relcl (16; 0% instances), fr-dep/nsubj (10; 0% instances), fr-dep/nmod (7; 0% instances), fr-dep/advmod (6; 0% instances), fr-dep/parataxis (6; 0% instances), fr-dep/dep (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/nsubj:pass (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/obl (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/orphan (1; 0% instances)

Parents of ADJ nodes belong to 9 different parts of speech: NOUN (3100; 82% instances), ROOT (173; 5% instances), ADJ (157; 4% instances), PROPN (138; 4% instances), VERB (108; 3% instances), PRON (38; 1% instances), DET (32; 1% instances), ADP (21; 1% instances), ADV (8; 0% instances)

2965 (79%) ADJ nodes are leaves.

402 (11%) ADJ nodes have one child.

117 (3%) ADJ nodes have two children.

291 (8%) ADJ nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a ADJ node is 13.

Children of ADJ nodes are attached using 30 different relations: fr-dep/punct (410; 19% instances), fr-dep/advmod (306; 14% instances), fr-dep/obl (266; 12% instances), fr-dep/cop (261; 12% instances), fr-dep/nsubj (238; 11% instances), fr-dep/conj (197; 9% instances), fr-dep/cc (114; 5% instances), fr-dep/mark (78; 4% instances), fr-dep/det (45; 2% instances), fr-dep/xcomp (42; 2% instances), fr-dep/advcl (39; 2% instances), fr-dep/aux (36; 2% instances), fr-dep/dep (26; 1% instances), fr-dep/ccomp (19; 1% instances), fr-dep/iobj (16; 1% instances), fr-dep/case (14; 1% instances), fr-dep/parataxis (11; 1% instances), fr-dep/acl (9; 0% instances), fr-dep/amod (9; 0% instances), fr-dep/expl (9; 0% instances), fr-dep/nummod (5; 0% instances), fr-dep/fixed (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/aux:pass (3; 0% instances), fr-dep/orphan (3; 0% instances), fr-dep/vocative (3; 0% instances), fr-dep/acl:relcl (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/appos (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/dislocated (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/nsubj:pass (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/obj (1; 0% instances)

Children of ADJ nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: NOUN (412; 19% instances), PUNCT (410; 19% instances), AUX (300; 14% instances), ADV (285; 13% instances), ADJ (157; 7% instances), VERB (155; 7% instances), PRON (137; 6% instances), CCONJ (113; 5% instances), ADP (58; 3% instances), SCONJ (51; 2% instances), DET (48; 2% instances), PROPN (36; 2% instances), NUM (7; 0% instances), INTJ (1; 0% instances), X (1; 0% instances)


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