Degree: degree of comparison
Degree is a feature of adjectives that describe the quality of a noun.
Pos : positive, first degree
States the quality of an object without comparing that quality to those of any other object.
Examples
- ag airneál go minic “visiting (at night) often”
Cmp : comparative, second degree
Sup : superlative, third degree
In Irish, the comparative and the superlative form is the same. In both cases, the adjective is given a suffix, usually resembling the feminine genitive ending. Both the comparative and the superlative require a degree particle. For the comparative degree, this is níos which corresponds to the English “more”. The particle is (loosely translated as “the most”) is used to indicate the superlative degree.
Examples
- níos fada “longer”
-
níos mó “bigger”
- is fearr “the best”
- is mó “the biggest”
Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)
This feature is universal.
It occurs with 3 different values: Cmp, Pos, Sup.
Some words have combined values of the feature; 1 combinations have been observed: Cmp|Sup.
349 tokens (3%) have a non-empty value of Degree.
186 types (5%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Degree.
153 lemmas (6%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Degree.
The feature is used with 2 part-of-speech tags: ga-pos/ADJ (348; 3% instances), ga-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances).
ADJ
348 ga-pos/ADJ tokens (50% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Degree.
The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and Degree co-occurred: VerbForm=EMPTY (348; 100%), Gender=EMPTY (348; 100%), Number=EMPTY (348; 100%), Case=EMPTY (348; 100%).
ADJ tokens may have the following values of Degree:
Cmp,Sup(36; 10% of non-emptyDegree): mó, fearr, mhó, fhearr, measa, airde, bhreátha, deirge, dhéine, giorraPos(312; 90% of non-emptyDegree): amháin, maith, léir, áirithe, fada, mór, beag, mó, dearg, minicEMPTY(345): déanta, mór, beaga, mhór, bunaithe, chéanna, beag, fada, éigin, mhaith
| Paradigm mór | Cmp,Sup | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| _ | mó, mhó, móide | mór |
| Form=Len | mhó | mhór |
Degree seems to be lexical feature of ADJ. 95% lemmas (146) occur only with one value of Degree.
NOUN
1 ga-pos/NOUN tokens (0% of all NOUN tokens) have a non-empty value of Degree.
The most frequent other feature values with which NOUN and Degree co-occurred: Form=EMPTY (1; 100%), VerbForm=EMPTY (1; 100%), Definite=EMPTY (1; 100%), Gender=EMPTY (1; 100%), Case=EMPTY (1; 100%), Number=EMPTY (1; 100%).
NOUN tokens may have the following values of Degree:
Pos(1; 100% of non-emptyDegree): ceartEMPTY(3729): bheith, chur, rud, duine, dhéanamh, daoine, leith, chuid, fáil, lá
Relations with Agreement in Degree
The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Degree:
ADJ –[conj]–> ADJ (10; 100%),
ADJ –[advcl]–> ADJ (4; 100%),
ADJ –[amod]–> ADJ (2; 100%),
ADJ –[ccomp]–> ADJ (1; 100%),
ADJ –[nsubj]–> ADJ (1; 100%).
Degree 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]