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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
corpora/tagset-claws5.txt · Last modified: 2024/01/16 13:58 by astefanowitsch