Degree: degree of comparison
Degree of comparison is inflectional feature of some adjectives and adverbs.
Pos: positive, first degree
This is the base form that merely states a quality of something, without comparing it to qualities of others. Note that although this degree is traditionally called “positive”, negative properties can be compared, too.
Examples
- молода людина “young person”
Cmp: comparative, second degree
The quality of one object is compared to the same quality of another object.
Examples
- Цей чоловік молодший, ніж тамтой. “This man is younger than that one.”
Sup: superlative, third degree
The quality of one object is compared to the same quality of all other objects within a set.
Examples
- Це наймолодша людина в нашій команді. “This is the youngest person in our team”
Abs: absolute superlative
The quality of the given object is so strong that there is hardly any other object exceeding it. The quality is not actually compared to any particular set of objects but rather to the abilities of its carriers. In Ukrainian this degree is most often used with adverbs.
Examples
- якнайвище, щонайкраще “very high”, “the best possible / as good as one can”
Treebank Statistics (UD_Ukrainian)
This feature is universal.
It occurs with 4 different values: Abs, Cmp, Pos, Sup.
492 tokens (4%) have a non-empty value of Degree.
381 types (7%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Degree.
237 lemmas (6%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Degree.
The feature is used with 2 part-of-speech tags: uk-pos/ADJ (343; 3% instances), uk-pos/ADV (149; 1% instances).
ADJ
343 uk-pos/ADJ tokens (31% of all ADJ tokens) have a non-empty value of Degree.
The most frequent other feature values with which ADJ and Degree co-occurred: Aspect=EMPTY (337; 98%), VerbForm=EMPTY (337; 98%), Voice=EMPTY (337; 98%), Animacy=EMPTY (298; 87%), Number=EMPTY (243; 71%).
ADJ tokens may have the following values of Degree:
Cmp(14; 4% of non-emptyDegree): нижчі, Старший, більша, більшими, важливіші, вищих, вищу, вужчий, досконалішими, милішогоPos(305; 89% of non-emptyDegree): великих, великої, зелена, малими, першого, перші, Західної, Новий, Північний, білимSup(24; 7% of non-emptyDegree): найближчими, найкращих, Найбільшу, Найкраще, найбезпораднішою, найбільшим, найважливіші, найвідоміших, найвідоміші, найголовнішоюEMPTY(772): різних, цілу, домашніх, різні, ціле, цілий, дитячої, експериментальних, маленький, нічному
Degree seems to be lexical feature of ADJ. 100% lemmas (165) occur only with one value of Degree.
ADV
149 uk-pos/ADV tokens (20% of all ADV tokens) have a non-empty value of Degree.
The most frequent other feature values with which ADV and Degree co-occurred: PronType=EMPTY (149; 100%).
ADV tokens may have the following values of Degree:
Abs(3; 2% of non-emptyDegree): щонайменше, якнайбільше, якнайшвидшеCmp(21; 14% of non-emptyDegree): більше, пізніше, краще, швидше, більш, вище, дешевше, нижче, повільнішеPos(119; 80% of non-emptyDegree): дуже, добре, часто, важко, багато, давно, довго, пізно, скоро, близькоSup(6; 4% of non-emptyDegree): найбільше, Найкраще, найменше, найсильнішеEMPTY(597): так, можна, тоді, ще, там, де, коли, вже, треба, завжди
Degree seems to be lexical feature of ADV. 100% lemmas (72) 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:
ADV –[flat]–> ADV (1; 100%),
ADJ –[parataxis]–> ADV (1; 100%).
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