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NOUN: noun

Definition

Nouns are a part of speech typically denoting a person, place, thing, animal or idea. Common nouns are tagged as NOUN.

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

There are 9631 NOUN lemmas (27%), 12444 NOUN types (27%) and 73205 NOUN tokens (19%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of NOUN is: 2 in number of lemmas, 2 in number of types and 1 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent NOUN lemmas: année, an, ville, partie, commune, nom, pays, région, groupe, monde

The 10 most frequent NOUN types: ans, ville, pays, partie, monde, nom, région, commune, fois, temps

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: monde (NOUN 256, PROPN 1), jour (NOUN 224, PROPN 1), droit (NOUN 199, ADJ 30, PROPN 1), fin (NOUN 196, ADJ 8, ADV 1), point (NOUN 175, ADV 3), personne (NOUN 155, PRON 11), enfant (NOUN 146, ADJ 1), début (NOUN 143, ADV 2, ADP 1), fait (NOUN 138, ADJ 2), sud (NOUN 122, ADJ 2, PROPN 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: ans (NOUN 336, CCONJ 1), partie (NOUN 264, VERB 1), monde (NOUN 242, PROPN 1), commune (NOUN 231, ADJ 7), groupe (NOUN 210, VERB 4), fin (NOUN 187, ADJ 2), place (NOUN 181, VERB 8), titre (NOUN 147, VERB 1), fait (VERB 430, NOUN 124, AUX 1), début (NOUN 121, ADV 2, ADP 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of NOUN is 1.292078 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.305637).

The 1st highest number of forms (14) was observed with the lemma “m”: 120km, bunodontum, limbum, m, nm, onm, pistum, pm, pom-pom, prism, rhythm, team, tétraméthylammonium, verbum.

The 2nd highest number of forms (6) was observed with the lemma “œuvre”: chef-d’œuvre, main-d’œuvre, manœuvre, oeuvre, œuvre, œuvres.

The 3rd highest number of forms (5) was observed with the lemma “Monsieur”: Mme, Mr., madame, mademoiselle, monsieur.

NOUN occurs with 5 features: fr-feat/Number (72794; 99% instances), fr-feat/Gender (72710; 99% instances), fr-feat/Case (4; 0% instances), fr-feat/Tense (3; 0% instances), fr-feat/PronType (2; 0% instances)

NOUN occurs with 11 feature-value pairs: Case=Abl, Case=Acc, Case=Nom, Case=Voc, Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, Gender=Neut, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, PronType=Art, Tense=Past

NOUN occurs with 17 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Gender=Masc|Number=Sing (29585 tokens). Examples: monde, nom, groupe, temps, siècle, état, lieu, pays, homme, film

Relations

NOUN nodes are attached to their parents using 31 different relations: fr-dep/nmod (21298; 29% instances), fr-dep/obl (18730; 26% instances), fr-dep/obj (10057; 14% instances), fr-dep/nsubj (7849; 11% instances), fr-dep/conj (6021; 8% instances), fr-dep/root (2832; 4% instances), fr-dep/appos (2479; 3% instances), fr-dep/nsubj:pass (1676; 2% instances), fr-dep/fixed (520; 1% instances), fr-dep/compound (512; 1% instances), fr-dep/xcomp (490; 1% instances), fr-dep/case (173; 0% instances), fr-dep/acl:relcl (102; 0% instances), fr-dep/ccomp (87; 0% instances), fr-dep/flat:name (75; 0% instances), fr-dep/advcl (69; 0% instances), fr-dep/dep (69; 0% instances), fr-dep/parataxis (55; 0% instances), fr-dep/amod (38; 0% instances), fr-dep/advmod (23; 0% instances), fr-dep/dislocated (12; 0% instances), fr-dep/acl (11; 0% instances), fr-dep/nummod (9; 0% instances), fr-dep/goeswith (7; 0% instances), fr-dep/mark (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/vocative (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/csubj (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/det (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/flat:foreign (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/nmod:poss (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/orphan (1; 0% instances)

Parents of NOUN nodes belong to 18 different parts of speech: VERB (35820; 49% instances), NOUN (28692; 39% instances), ROOT (2832; 4% instances), ADJ (2162; 3% instances), PROPN (1907; 3% instances), PRON (743; 1% instances), ADP (471; 1% instances), SYM (191; 0% instances), NUM (182; 0% instances), ADV (91; 0% instances), X (64; 0% instances), INTJ (21; 0% instances), DET (17; 0% instances), CCONJ (4; 0% instances), SCONJ (3; 0% instances), AUX (2; 0% instances), PUNCT (2; 0% instances), PART (1; 0% instances)

1925 (3%) NOUN nodes are leaves.

14318 (20%) NOUN nodes have one child.

22843 (31%) NOUN nodes have two children.

34119 (47%) NOUN nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a NOUN node is 32.

Children of NOUN nodes are attached using 38 different relations: fr-dep/det (49319; 26% instances), fr-dep/case (40116; 21% instances), fr-dep/nmod (29552; 16% instances), fr-dep/amod (18486; 10% instances), fr-dep/punct (12439; 7% instances), fr-dep/conj (6006; 3% instances), fr-dep/appos (4859; 3% instances), fr-dep/nummod (4469; 2% instances), fr-dep/cc (4287; 2% instances), fr-dep/acl (4212; 2% instances), fr-dep/nmod:poss (4210; 2% instances), fr-dep/cop (2827; 1% instances), fr-dep/nsubj (2744; 1% instances), fr-dep/acl:relcl (2489; 1% instances), fr-dep/advmod (1442; 1% instances), fr-dep/compound (517; 0% instances), fr-dep/obl (402; 0% instances), fr-dep/advcl (220; 0% instances), fr-dep/fixed (216; 0% instances), fr-dep/flat:name (207; 0% instances), fr-dep/mark (190; 0% instances), fr-dep/ccomp (137; 0% instances), fr-dep/parataxis (115; 0% instances), fr-dep/aux (93; 0% instances), fr-dep/dep (38; 0% instances), fr-dep/iobj (37; 0% instances), fr-dep/expl (32; 0% instances), fr-dep/obj (25; 0% instances), fr-dep/csubj (16; 0% instances), fr-dep/xcomp (12; 0% instances), fr-dep/discourse (11; 0% instances), fr-dep/goeswith (6; 0% instances), fr-dep/aux:pass (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/dislocated (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/nsubj:pass (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/vocative (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/flat:foreign (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/orphan (1; 0% instances)

Children of NOUN nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: DET (53367; 28% instances), ADP (39898; 21% instances), NOUN (28692; 15% instances), ADJ (18658; 10% instances), PUNCT (12435; 7% instances), PROPN (11331; 6% instances), VERB (7289; 4% instances), NUM (6729; 4% instances), CCONJ (3909; 2% instances), AUX (2927; 2% instances), ADV (2123; 1% instances), PRON (1581; 1% instances), SCONJ (311; 0% instances), X (282; 0% instances), SYM (178; 0% instances), PART (20; 0% instances), INTJ (17; 0% instances)


Treebank Statistics (UD_French-ParTUT)

There are 1073 NOUN lemmas (42%), 1221 NOUN types (36%) and 3764 NOUN tokens (21%). Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of NOUN is: 1 in number of lemmas, 1 in number of types and 1 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent NOUN lemmas: commission, droit, parlement, monsieur, programme, président, mesure, oeuvre, sécurité, membre

The 10 most frequent NOUN types: commission, parlement, droit, sécurité, oeuvre, programme, directive, membres, états, conseil

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: objectif (NOUN 14, ADJ 2), acceptant (NOUN 12, ADJ 1), politique (NOUN 9, ADJ 4), public (ADJ 19, NOUN 7), sujet (NOUN 7, ADJ 1), ensemble (NOUN 6, ADV 1), personnel (NOUN 6, ADJ 1), abord (NOUN 5, ADV 1), famille (NOUN 4, ADJ 1), particulier (NOUN 4, ADJ 4)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: produits (NOUN 19, VERB 2), mise (NOUN 11, VERB 2), objectifs (NOUN 8, ADJ 2), politique (NOUN 8, ADJ 4), fait (VERB 22, NOUN 7), public (ADJ 9, NOUN 7), sujet (NOUN 7, ADJ 1), ensemble (NOUN 6, ADV 1), échanges (NOUN 6, VERB 1), abord (NOUN 5, ADV 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of NOUN is 1.137931 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.316828).

The 1st highest number of forms (4) was observed with the lemma “monsieur”: M., messieurs, mm., monsieur.

The 2nd highest number of forms (3) was observed with the lemma “madame”: madame, mesdames, mme.

The 3rd highest number of forms (3) was observed with the lemma “page”: p., page, pages.

NOUN occurs with 2 features: fr-feat/Gender (3730; 99% instances), fr-feat/Number (3664; 97% instances)

NOUN occurs with 4 feature-value pairs: Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, Number=Plur, Number=Sing

NOUN occurs with 8 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Gender=Fem|Number=Sing (1431 tokens). Examples: commission, sécurité, oeuvre, directive, protection, madame, question, matière, personne, utilisation

Relations

NOUN nodes are attached to their parents using 24 different relations: fr-dep/nmod (1310; 35% instances), fr-dep/obl (797; 21% instances), fr-dep/obj (528; 14% instances), fr-dep/conj (370; 10% instances), fr-dep/nsubj (362; 10% instances), fr-dep/nsubj:pass (85; 2% instances), fr-dep/root (79; 2% instances), fr-dep/vocative (47; 1% instances), fr-dep/obl:agent (46; 1% instances), fr-dep/compound (42; 1% instances), fr-dep/appos (20; 1% instances), fr-dep/acl:relcl (16; 0% instances), fr-dep/ccomp (14; 0% instances), fr-dep/fixed (13; 0% instances), fr-dep/advcl (9; 0% instances), fr-dep/xcomp (9; 0% instances), fr-dep/dislocated (5; 0% instances), fr-dep/amod (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/flat (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/orphan (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/acl (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/case (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/goeswith (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/iobj (1; 0% instances)

Parents of NOUN nodes belong to 13 different parts of speech: VERB (1752; 47% instances), NOUN (1708; 45% instances), ADJ (117; 3% instances), ROOT (79; 2% instances), PRON (36; 1% instances), PROPN (33; 1% instances), ADV (11; 0% instances), ADP (10; 0% instances), DET (6; 0% instances), NUM (6; 0% instances), SYM (3; 0% instances), AUX (2; 0% instances), SCONJ (1; 0% instances)

101 (3%) NOUN nodes are leaves.

687 (18%) NOUN nodes have one child.

1198 (32%) NOUN nodes have two children.

1778 (47%) NOUN nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a NOUN node is 12.

Children of NOUN nodes are attached using 30 different relations: fr-dep/det (2641; 28% instances), fr-dep/case (2278; 24% instances), fr-dep/nmod (1429; 15% instances), fr-dep/amod (877; 9% instances), fr-dep/punct (507; 5% instances), fr-dep/conj (363; 4% instances), fr-dep/cc (292; 3% instances), fr-dep/acl (277; 3% instances), fr-dep/nmod:poss (178; 2% instances), fr-dep/nummod (169; 2% instances), fr-dep/acl:relcl (136; 1% instances), fr-dep/advmod (106; 1% instances), fr-dep/cop (84; 1% instances), fr-dep/nsubj (81; 1% instances), fr-dep/flat (43; 0% instances), fr-dep/compound (41; 0% instances), fr-dep/appos (28; 0% instances), fr-dep/mark (24; 0% instances), fr-dep/obl (6; 0% instances), fr-dep/vocative (6; 0% instances), fr-dep/discourse (5; 0% instances), fr-dep/csubj (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/expl (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/orphan (3; 0% instances), fr-dep/advcl (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/aux (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/fixed (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/nsubj:pass (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/obj (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/parataxis (1; 0% instances)

Children of NOUN nodes belong to 16 different parts of speech: DET (2827; 29% instances), ADP (2262; 24% instances), NOUN (1708; 18% instances), ADJ (912; 10% instances), PUNCT (507; 5% instances), VERB (411; 4% instances), CCONJ (278; 3% instances), PROPN (175; 2% instances), NUM (174; 2% instances), ADV (127; 1% instances), AUX (86; 1% instances), PRON (85; 1% instances), SCONJ (24; 0% instances), PART (11; 0% instances), X (3; 0% instances), SYM (1; 0% instances)


Treebank Statistics (UD_French-Sequoia)

There are 2736 NOUN lemmas (41%), 3307 NOUN types (36%) and 12895 NOUN tokens (21%). Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of NOUN is: 1 in number of lemmas, 1 in number of types and 1 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent NOUN lemmas: patient, affaire, %, monsieur, an, président, effet, bivalirudine, traitement, jour

The 10 most frequent NOUN types: patients, affaire, %, bivalirudine, ans, perfusion, traitement, mg, président, cas

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: commission (NOUN 55, PROPN 43), droit (NOUN 45, ADJ 2), membre (NOUN 39, ADJ 7), personne (NOUN 32, PRON 1), franc (NOUN 28, ADJ 1), frégate (NOUN 26, PROPN 1), directeur (NOUN 25, ADJ 1), euro (NOUN 25, PROPN 1), conseil (PROPN 27, NOUN 23), intermédiaire (NOUN 21, ADJ 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: risque (NOUN 35, VERB 4), commission (NOUN 31, PROPN 1), enquête (NOUN 30, VERB 2), mise (NOUN 23, VERB 4), marché (NOUN 27, VERB 1), membres (NOUN 26, ADJ 7), place (NOUN 22, VERB 2), fait (VERB 36, NOUN 21), compte (NOUN 20, VERB 3), conseil (NOUN 17, PROPN 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of NOUN is 1.208699 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.389679).

The 1st highest number of forms (6) was observed with the lemma “monsieur”: M., Madame, Mesdames, Mme, Monsieur, messieurs.

The 2nd highest number of forms (4) was observed with the lemma “page”: p., page, pages, pp..

The 3rd highest number of forms (4) was observed with the lemma “patient”: patient, patiente, patientes, patients.

NOUN occurs with 3 features: fr-feat/Number (12248; 95% instances), fr-feat/Gender (12128; 94% instances), fr-feat/NumType (101; 1% instances)

NOUN occurs with 5 feature-value pairs: Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, NumType=Card, Number=Plur, Number=Sing

NOUN occurs with 12 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Gender=Fem|Number=Sing (4404 tokens). Examples: affaire, bivalirudine, perfusion, solution, administration, dose, étude, maladie, guerre, commission

Relations

NOUN nodes are attached to their parents using 22 different relations: fr-dep/nmod (4188; 32% instances), fr-dep/obl (2919; 23% instances), fr-dep/obj (1596; 12% instances), fr-dep/nsubj (1132; 9% instances), fr-dep/conj (1110; 9% instances), fr-dep/root (680; 5% instances), fr-dep/fixed (388; 3% instances), fr-dep/nsubj:pass (332; 3% instances), fr-dep/appos (304; 2% instances), fr-dep/vocative (49; 0% instances), fr-dep/acl:relcl (41; 0% instances), fr-dep/case (30; 0% instances), fr-dep/dep (28; 0% instances), fr-dep/orphan (28; 0% instances), fr-dep/ccomp (24; 0% instances), fr-dep/acl (20; 0% instances), fr-dep/advcl (13; 0% instances), fr-dep/xcomp (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/dislocated (3; 0% instances), fr-dep/parataxis (3; 0% instances), fr-dep/iobj (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/csubj:pass (1; 0% instances)

Parents of NOUN nodes belong to 11 different parts of speech: VERB (5541; 43% instances), NOUN (5394; 42% instances), ROOT (680; 5% instances), ADJ (412; 3% instances), ADP (374; 3% instances), PROPN (352; 3% instances), PRON (92; 1% instances), ADV (25; 0% instances), DET (20; 0% instances), NUM (4; 0% instances), CCONJ (1; 0% instances)

779 (6%) NOUN nodes are leaves.

2740 (21%) NOUN nodes have one child.

3910 (30%) NOUN nodes have two children.

5466 (42%) NOUN nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a NOUN node is 32.

Children of NOUN nodes are attached using 32 different relations: fr-dep/det (7646; 25% instances), fr-dep/case (6867; 22% instances), fr-dep/nmod (5113; 16% instances), fr-dep/amod (3054; 10% instances), fr-dep/punct (2170; 7% instances), fr-dep/nummod (1183; 4% instances), fr-dep/conj (1028; 3% instances), fr-dep/acl (915; 3% instances), fr-dep/cc (738; 2% instances), fr-dep/nmod:poss (438; 1% instances), fr-dep/acl:relcl (386; 1% instances), fr-dep/advmod (308; 1% instances), fr-dep/appos (276; 1% instances), fr-dep/cop (266; 1% instances), fr-dep/nsubj (221; 1% instances), fr-dep/flat:name (187; 1% instances), fr-dep/dep (89; 0% instances), fr-dep/mark (82; 0% instances), fr-dep/obl (56; 0% instances), fr-dep/fixed (35; 0% instances), fr-dep/aux (24; 0% instances), fr-dep/orphan (21; 0% instances), fr-dep/aux:pass (13; 0% instances), fr-dep/nsubj:pass (12; 0% instances), fr-dep/parataxis (11; 0% instances), fr-dep/advcl (8; 0% instances), fr-dep/iobj (8; 0% instances), fr-dep/ccomp (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/xcomp (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/dislocated (3; 0% instances), fr-dep/expl (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/vocative (2; 0% instances)

Children of NOUN nodes belong to 14 different parts of speech: DET (8031; 26% instances), ADP (6979; 22% instances), NOUN (5394; 17% instances), ADJ (3100; 10% instances), PUNCT (2176; 7% instances), PROPN (1344; 4% instances), VERB (1277; 4% instances), NUM (1221; 4% instances), CCONJ (713; 2% instances), ADV (315; 1% instances), AUX (303; 1% instances), PRON (234; 1% instances), SCONJ (67; 0% instances), X (16; 0% instances)


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