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Nestle 1904 GNT - Feature: degree

Feature group	Feature type	Data type	Available for node types	Used by viewtypes
Morphological	Node	String	word subphrase phrase	syntax-view wg-view

Feature description

The degree feature specifies the grammatical degree of a comparative or superlative adjective. This feature helps to identify and classify adjectives based on their degree of comparison.

This feature is also populated for phrase or subphrase, but only if they consist of just one word node.

Feature values

For word nodes (used in syntax-view and wg-view):

Value	Description	Frequency
comparitative	Comparitative adjective	313
superlative	Superlative adjective	200
<empty>	Empty for any other adjectives or other wordtypes	137266

For phrase nodes (used in syntax-view):

Value	Description	Frequency
comparitative	Comparitative adjective	119
superlative	Superlative adjective	32
<empty>	Empty for any other adjectives or other wordtypes	68856

For subphrase nodes (used in syntax-view):

Value	Description	Frequency
comparitative	Comparitative adjective	313
superlative	Superlative adjective	200
<empty>	Empty for any other adjectives or other wordtypes	115816

Notes

The following features provide ready access to eight morphological properties:

• person: gramatical person
• tense: gramatical tense of the verb
• voice: Gramatical voice of the verb
• mood: gramatical mood of a verb
• case: gramatical case
• number: gramatical number
• gender: gramatical gender
• degree: indicates comparative or superlative adjective

The feature morph provides the morphological tag, which condenses various details such as part of speech and the above listed morphological characteristics.

Source description

This feature is derived from the (optional) XML attribute degree of the tag w (word).

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