Annotation Model for the Stuttgart-Tübingen Tagset (STTS, Schiller et al. 1999) of part of speech annotation.
2006 created
2006-2008 maintained by Angelika Adam
2010/01/04 system.owl integration
2010/12/07 removed cardinality restriction of hasTag
Christian Chiarcos, chiarcos@uni-potsdam.de
These are adjectives.
An adjective is a word that is a member of a part of speech whose prototypical members designate properties and, less prototypically, states.
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These are adpositions.
An adposition is a more or less grammaticalized relator word that takes a noun phrase as a complement and forms with it an adposition phrase. Its meaning is the grammatical or semantic relation between the dependent noun phrase and whatever the adposition phrase depends on. For example:
?to? in ?He went to the races? or ?with? in ?He promised to help with whatever was the matter?.
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These are adverbs e.g. "schon", "bald", "doch".
An adverb is a word that is a member of a part of speech whose prototypical members (by themselves) modify clauses.
In many descriptions, any word with lexical content (i.e., other than grammatical particles) that isn?t clearly a noun, a verb or an adjective is put into the class of adverb. Semantically, forms that have been called adverbs cover an extremely wide range of concepts, hence they cannot be identified in terms of time-stability or any other well-defined semantic parameter.
The unit modified by an adverb is typically a clause, but may be any other category (sentence, verb phrase, verb, nominal, adjective, adverb).
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These are definite e.g. in German "der", "die", "das" or indefinite articles e.g. in German "ein", "eine".
An article is a highly grammaticalized determiner that expresses one or a few of the basic determinations (definite/indefinite, generic/specific, given/new).
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These can be e.g. the attributive adjectives ("[das] grosse [Haus]"), attributive used present participles ("[das] lachende [Kind]"), attributive used past participles ("[der] gesuchte [Dieb]"), ordinal numerals ("[die] zweite [Besetzung]") or fractional numerals ("[ein] dreiviertel [Liter Milch]").
The German verbs "haben", "sein" und "werden" will be marked as auxiliary verbs, whether they are used as main verbs or as auxiliary verbs within a sentence.
An auxiliary is a strongly grammaticalized word - typically a verb -such that
- it is the structural head of a periphrastic construction in which a non-finite form of a full lexical verb is the primary dependent,
- that construction is part of the conjugation paradigm for full verbs of the language.
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These are cardinal numerals, e.g. "zwei Manner, im Jahre 1994".
A cardinal numeral is a numeral - most typically a noun 2 - which designates the cardinality of a set; i.e. it is used for counting and for expressing how many objects are referred to.
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Only for cardinal numerals there is a special word class defined within the numerals.
Ordinal numerals, multiplicatives and fraction numbers are counted according to her distribution to the adjectives or nouns.
This is the right part of a circumposition e.g. "von jetzt an".
The equalization with circumposition could be incomplete, because another definition of circumposition would describe that both parts belong together.
These are the comparison particles "als" and "wie". They have only a mid-sentence use that means they are not followed by an Nominal Phrase or an Adverbial Phrase.
These are conjunctions.
A conjunction is a word that syntactically links words or larger constituents and expresses a relationship between them.
Prototypically, a conjunction links two clauses. However, coordinative conjunctions may also link subclausal expressions.
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These are co-ordinating (adjacent arranged) conjunctions "und", "oder", "aber".
A coordinative conjunction is a conjunction that coordinates two expressions.
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These are demonstrative pronouns.
This is a pronoun with deictic function.
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The tag FM describes foreign material, e.g. "Er hat das mit _A big sh _ ubersetzt". Foreign words are written in capital letters if they were written in the original language with small letters and belong to the category of nouns (NN) , e.g. "die Contras".
These are indefinite pronouns.
This is a pronoun which belongs to a class whose members make indefinite reference. An indefinite pronoun may be specific or nonspecific. In the latter case, it may be generic.
An indefinite pronoun may be negative.
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These are interjections, e.g. "mhm", "ach", "tja".
An interjection is a particle 1 which may represent a sentence. Thus, it is not syntactically related to other sentence components.
An interjection is typically brief, used most often as an exclamation or as part of an exclamation and typically expresses an emotional reaction, often with respect to an accompanying sentence. It may include a combination of sounds not otherwise found it the language.
Examples in English are ?psst!?, ?ugh!?, ?well, well!?, ?yes?, ?no?.
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These are interrogative pronouns.
An interrogative pronoun is a pronoun which is an interrogative pro-form.
Examples in English are "who", "which".
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These are modal verbs which include "koennen, muessen, wollen, duerfen, moegen" also the conjunctive forms of "moegen, moechten" and "sollen".
no category for modal verbs, thus not distinguished from non-aux verbs
These are non-words mostly bigger groups of numbers or combinations of letters and numbers which could not be related to CARD (cardinal numeral) or ADJA (attributive adjective), e.g. "das Model DX3E".
These are nouns.
A noun is a word that is a member of a part of speech whose prototypical members designate physical objects.
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These are non-reflexive personal pronouns, e.g. in German "ich", "er", "ihm", "mich".
A personal pronoun is a pronoun (a pro-substantive) that expresses person.
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These are possessive pronouns.
This is a special type of pronoun used prototypically to indicate the possessor in an attributive possession relation. It typically has the inflectional categories of the adjective.
The possessive pronoun is normally a modifier to a head noun that represents the possessum. It can also be used to indicate the subject or object relation for the nominalization of a verb or a nonfinite verb form.
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These are postpositions e.g. "ihm zufolge", "der Sache wegen".
A postposition is an adposition that follows its complement.
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These are adverbial ("er faehrt schnell") or predicative ("er ist schnell") adjectives. These can also be from nominals ("[mir ist] angst"), fraction numbers ("halb [voll]"), ordinal numerals ("[zu] dritt"), adverbial used present participles ("[er kam] lachend [herein]") or adverbial used past participles ("gebraucht [kaufen]", "gekonnt [gespielt]").
These are temporal, causal, modal and local prepositions, e.g. "ohne", "mit", "waehrend" or the left part of a circumposition "um [der sache wegen]", "von [heute an]".
These are the pronominal adverbs, e.g. in German "daf?r", "dabei", "deswegen", "trotzdem".
A pronominal adverb is a pro-form that belongs to an adverbial syntactic category.
An Example in English is ?there? in ?If you?ll look on the table, you?ll find the book there.?
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These are the pronouns.
A pronoun is a pro-form that belongs to a nominal syntactic category, The prototypical pronoun has the same distribution as an NP.
Pronouns are free forms (as opposed to affixes) that fill the position of a noun phrase (or other nominal category) in a sentence.
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These are proper names, e.g. "Hans", "Hamburg", "HSV".
A proper name is a name of an individual (as opposed to a collective).
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These are reflexive personal pronouns, e.g. "sich", "einander", "dich", "mir".
A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun distinguished as having coreference with the subject, cf. ?himself? in ?He prides himself on his appearance?.
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These are relative pronouns.
A relative pronoun is a special pronoun which combines the functions of a plain relativizer and a clause internal pronoun that refers to the head of the relative clause.
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These are subordinating conjunctions.
A subordinative conjunction is a conjunction that subordinates one clause to another.
E.g. ?when? in ?Listen when I speak to you?.
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The tag TRUNC describes parts of words which end with an hyphen. The hyphen substitutes a part of a following word which is linked with and/ or ("und / oder"). It is also called first part of a compound, e.g. "An- und Abreise" .
These are verbs.
A verb is a word that is a member of a part of speech whose prototypical members designate events and processes.
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