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Signs |
Description |
1 |
VBD |
1. past tense |
2 |
VBN |
2. perfect aspect verbs |
3 |
VBP/Z |
3. present tense |
4 |
RB_place |
4. place adverbials (above, beside, outdoors) |
5 |
RB_time |
5. time adverbials (early, instantly, soon) |
6 |
PP1 |
6. first person pronouns |
7 |
PP2 |
7. second person pronouns |
8 |
PP3 |
8. third person pronouns (excluding it) |
9 |
IT |
9. pronoun it |
10 |
PrnDem |
10. demonstrative pronouns (that, this, these, those as pronouns) |
11 |
PrnIndef |
11. indefinite pronouns (e.g., anybody, nothing, someone) |
12 |
DO |
12. do as pro-verb |
13 |
wh-q |
13. wh-questions |
14 |
nominalizat |
14. nominalizations (ending in -tion, -ment, -ness, -ity) |
15 |
gerunds |
15. gerunds |
16 |
nouns |
16. nouns |
17 |
agls_passives |
17. agentless passives |
18 |
by_passives |
18. by-passives |
19 |
BE |
19. be as main verb |
20 |
EX |
20. existential there |
21 |
thatVComp |
21. that verb
complements (I said that he went.) |
22 |
thatJJComp |
22. that adjective complements (I’m glad that
you like it.) |
23 |
wh-cls |
23. wh-clauses (I believed what
he told me.) |
24 |
inf |
24. infinitives |
25 |
PresPplCls |
25. present participial clauses (Stuffing
his mouth with cookies, Joe ran out the door.) |
26 |
PastPplCls |
26. past participial clauses (Built in a
single week, the house would stand for fifty years.) |
27 |
PP_Whdel |
27. past participial WHIZ deletions (the
solution produced by this process) |
28 |
PresP_WHdel |
28. present participial WHIZ deletions (the
event causing this decline is...) |
29 |
that-R_subj |
29. that-relatives:
subject position (the dog that bit me) |
30 |
that-R_obj |
30. that-relatives:
object position (the dog that I saw) |
31 |
wh-R_subj |
31. wh-relatives:
subject position (the man who likes popcorn) |
32 |
wh-R_object |
32. wh-relatives:
object position (the man who Sally likes) |
33 |
wh-R_pied-p |
33. wh-relatives:
pied-pipings (the manner in
which he was told) |
34 |
sent_R |
34. sentence relatives (Bob likes fried
mangoes, which is the most
disgusting thing I’ve ever heard of) |
35 |
CSR_causative |
35. causative adverbial subordinator (because) |
36 |
CSR_concessive |
36. concessive adverbial subordinator (although, though) |
37 |
CSR_condition |
37. conditional adverbial subordinator (if, unless) |
38 |
CSR_other |
38. other adverbial subordinator (since, while, whereas) |
39 |
prep |
39. prepositions |
40 |
JJ_attrib |
40. attributive adjectives (the big horse) |
41 |
JJ_pred |
41. predicative adjectives (the horse is big) |
42 |
RB |
42. adverbs |
43 |
TTR |
43. type/token ratio |
44 |
w_length |
44. word length |
45 |
conjuncts |
45. conjuncts (consequently, furthermore, however) |
46 |
dwn-toners |
46. downtoners (barely, nearly, slightly) |
47 |
hedges |
47. hedges (at about, something like, almost) |
48 |
amplifiers |
48. amplifiers (absolutely, extremely, perfectly) |
49 |
emphatics |
49. emphatics (a lot, for sure, really) |
50 |
RP_discourse |
50. discourse particles (sentence initial well, now, anyway) |
51 |
dem |
51. demonstratives |
52 |
Md_possibility |
52. possibility modals (can, may, might, could) |
53 |
Md_necessity |
53. necessity modals (ought, should, must) |
54 |
Md_predictive |
54. predictive modals (will, would, shall) |
55 |
V_public |
55. public verbs (assert, declare, mention, say) |
56 |
V_private |
56. private verbs (assume, believe, doubt, know) |
57 |
V_suasive |
57. suasive verbs (command, insist, propose) |
58 |
seem/appear |
58. seem/appear |
59 |
contractions |
59. contractions |
60 |
that_del |
60. that deletion (I think [that] he went) |
61 |
strand_prep |
61. stranded prepositions (the candidate
that I was thinking of ) |
62 |
splitInf |
62. split infinitives (he wants to convincingly prove that ...) |
63 |
splitAux |
63. split auxiliaries (they are objectively shown to ...) |
64 |
CCPhr |
64. phrasal coordination (NOUN and NOUN; ADJ and ADJ;
VERB and VERB; ADV and ADV) |
65 |
CCIndepCls |
65. independent clause coordination (clause initial and) |
66 |
NEGsyn |
66. synthetic negation (no answer is good
enough for Jones) |
67 |
NEGana |
67. analytic negation (that’s not likely) |