====== Tagsets: CLAWS 5 ======

The CLAWS 5 tagset is known mainly for its use in the 1994 British National Corpus (BNC).

^ Tag ^ Description ^
| AJ0 | Adjective, general or positive (e.g. //good//, //old//, //beautiful//) |
| AJC | Comparative adjective (e.g. //better//, //older//) |
| AJS | Superlative adjective (e.g. //best//, //oldest//) |
| AT0 | Article (e.g. //the//, //a//, //an//, //no//) |
| AV0 | General adverb: an adverb not subclassified as AVP or AVQ (e.g. //often//, //well//, longer (adv.) |
| AVP | Adverb particle (e.g. //up//, //off//, //out//) |
| AVQ | Wh-adverb (e.g. //when//, //where//, //how//, //why//, //wherever//) |
| CJC | Coordinating conjunction (e.g. //and//, //or//, //but//) |
| CJS | Subordinating conjunction (e.g. //although//, //when//) |
| CJT | The subordinating conjunction //that// |
| CRD | Cardinal number (e.g. //one//, //3//, fifty-five, 3609) |
| DPS | Possessive determiner (e.g. //your//, //their//, //his//) |
| DT0 | General determiner: a determiner not subclassified as  DTQ (e.g. //this//, //that//, //all//, //some//, //these//, //any//, //such//, //many//) |
| DTQ | Wh-determiner (e.g. //which//, //what//, //whose//, //whichever//) |
| EX0 | Existential //there// |
| ITJ | Interjection or other isolate (e.g. //oh//, //yes//, //mhm//, //wow//) |
| NN0 | Common noun, neutral for number (e.g. //aircraft//, //data//, //committee//) |
| NN1 | Singular common noun (e.g. //pencil//, //goose//, //time//, //revelation//) |
| NN2 | Plural common noun (e.g. //pencils//, //geese//, //times//, //revelations//) |
| NP0 | Proper noun (e.g. //London//, //Michael//, //Mars//, //IBM//) |
| ORD | Ordinal numeral (e.g. //first//, //sixth//, //77th//, //last//) |
| PNI | Indefinite pronoun (e.g. //none//, //everything//, //one//, //nobody//) |
| PNP | Personal pronoun (e.g. //I//, //you//, //them//, //ours//) |
| PNQ | Wh-pronoun (e.g. //who//, //whoever//, //whom//) |
| PNX | Reflexive pronoun (e.g. //myself//, //yourself//, //itself//, //ourselves//) |
| POS | The possessive or genitive marker //'s// or //'// |
| PRF | The preposition //of// |
| PRP | Preposition, except for //of// (e.g. //about//, //at//, //in//, //on//, //with//) |
| PUL | Punctuation: left bracket |
| PUN | Punctuation: general separating mark - i.e. . , ! , : ; - or ? |
| PUQ | Punctuation: quotation mark |
| PUR | Punctuation: right bracket |
| TO0 | Infinitive marker //to// |
| UNC | Unclassified items, e.g. foreign words, special typographical symbols, formulae, and hesitation markers like //er// and //erm// |
| VBB | The present tense forms of the verb //be//, except for is, 's |
| VBD | The past tense forms of the verb //be//, i.e.  //was// and //were// |
| VBG | The -ing form of the verb //be//, i.e.  //being// |
| VBI | The infinitive form of the verb //be//, i.e. //be// |
| VBN | The past participle form of the verb //be//, i.e.  //been// |
| VBZ | The -s form of the verb //be//, i.e.  //is//, //'s// |
| VDB | The finite base form of the verb //be//, i.e.  //do// |
| VDD | The past tense form of the verb //do//, i.e.  //did// |
| VDG | The -ing form of the verb //do//, i.e.  //doing// |
| VDI | The infinitive form of the verb //do//, i.e.  //do// |
| VDN | The past participle form of the verb //do//, i.e.  //done// |
| VDZ | The -s form of the verb //do//, i.e.  //does//, //'s// |
| VHB | The finite base form of the verb //have//, i.e.  //have//, //'ve// |
| VHD | The past tense form of the verb //have//, i.e.  //had//, //'d// |
| VHG | The -ing form of the verb //have//, i.e.  //having// |
| VHI | The infinitive form of the verb //have//, i.e.  //have// |
| VHN | The past participle form of the verb //have//, i.e.  //had// |
| VHZ | The -s form of the verb //have//, i.e.  //has//, //'s// |
| VM0 | Modal auxiliary verb (e.g. //will//, //would//, //can//, //could//, 'll, 'd) |
| VVB | The finite base form of lexical verbs (e.g. //forget//, //send//, //live//, //return//) |
| VVD | The past tense form of lexical verbs (e.g. //forgot//, //sent//, //lived//, //returned//) |
| VVG | The -ing form of lexical verbs (e.g. //forgetting//, //sending//, //living//, //returning//) |
| VVI | The infinitive form of lexical verbs (e.g. //forget//, //send//, //live//, //return//) |
| VVN | The past participle form of lexical verbs (e.g. //forgotten//, //sent//, //lived//, //returned//) |
| VVZ | The -s form of lexical verbs (e.g. //forgets//, //sends//, //lives//, //returns//) |
| XX0 | The negative particle, i.e. //not// or //n't// |
| ZZ0 | Alphabetical symbols (e.g. //A//, //a//, //B//, //b//, //c//, //d//) |