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Nestle 1904 GNT - Feature: number

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 number feature indicates the grammatical number of any word node with the feature cls set to a verb, noun, determiner, adjective, or pronoun. This feature helps in identifying whether the word is in singular or plural form.

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
singular	Singular form (either first, second, or third person)	69846
plural	Plural form (either first, second, or third person)	29091
<empty>	Empty for wordtypes without number	38842

For phrase nodes (used in syntax-view):

Value	Description	Frequency
singular	Singular form (either first, second, or third person)	26293
plural	Plural form (either first, second, or third person)	12967
<empty>	Empty for wordtypes without number	29747

For subphrase nodes (used in syntax-view):

Value	Description	Frequency
singular	Singular form (either first, second, or third person)	69846
plural	Plural form (either first, second, or third person)	29091
<empty>	Empty for wordtypes without number	56501

Note

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 XML attribute number of the tag w (word).

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