Adjective #

Universal #

Definition from de UD website

Adjectives are words that typically modify nouns and specify their properties or attributes:

The oldest French bridge

They may also function as predicates, as in:

The car is green.

Some words that could be seen as adjectives (and are tagged as such in other annotation schemes) have a different tag in UD: See DET for determiners and NUM for (cardinal) numbers.

ADJ is also used for “proper adjectives” such as European (“proper” as in proper nouns, i.e., words that are derived from names but are adjectives rather than nouns).

Numbers vs. Adjectives: In general, cardinal numbers receive the part of speech NUM, while ordinal numbers (more precisely adjectival ordinal numerals) receive the tag ADJ.

There are words that may traditionally be called numerals in some languages (e.g., Czech) but which are treated as adjectives in our universal tagging scheme. In particular, the adjectival ordinal numerals (note: Czech also has adverbial ones) behave both morphologically and syntactically as adjectives and are tagged ADJ.

Nouns vs. Adjectives: A noun modifying another noun to form a compound noun is given the tag NOUN not ADJ On the other hand, adjectives that exceptionally head a nominal phrase (as in the sick, the healthy) are still tagged ADJ.

Participles: Participles are word forms that may share properties and usage of any of adjectives, nouns, and verbs. Depending on the language and context, they may be classified as any of ADJ, NOUN or VERB.

Adjectival modifiers of adjectives: In general, an ADJ is modified by an ADV (very strong). However, sometimes a word modifying an ADJ is still regarded as an ADJ. These cases include: (i) ordinal numeral modifiers of a superlative adjective (the third oldest bridge) and (ii) when a pair of adjectives form a compound adjectival modifier (an African American mayor).

Examples

• big
• old
• green
• African
• incomprehensible
• first, second, third

French #

TODO

Overview #

Specific Pattern #

Haitian Creole #

TODO

Overview #

Specific Pattern #