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UD for Karelian

Tokenization and Word Segmentation

The main tokenisation is standard white-space delimited approach with punctuations separated.
The punctuation is used as part of the token for ordinals written with digits: “123.” as well some abbreviations.
The initial tokenisation for the currently only treebank was made based on morphological analyser from giellatekno and tooling from apertium.

Morphology

Tags

Karelian uses all 17 universal POS categories
- PART is currently not used
- PRON with PronType=Dem is usually preferred over DET where possible
Karelian has following auxiliaries:
- “olla” (to be, also to own etc.)
- “ei” (inflected negation verb)
- modals: “voija” (can). “piteä” (must), … (list will be extended as the corpora gets larger)
For proadjectives etc., ADJ is used as the UPOS tag, similarly ADV for proadverbs and so forth.
Ordinal numerals are tagged ADJ

Features

Verbal Features

There are three main verbal forms distinguished by the value of VerbForm feature:
- Finite verb Fin
- Infinite verb Inf
- Participle verb Part
Mood has four values: Cnd, Imp, Ind or Pot.
Tense has two values: Past or Pres.
Voice has two values: Act and Pass.
Person has four values, 0, 1, 2 and 3.
Number has values Sing or Plur.

Nominal Features

Karelian does not have Gender feature
Number feature has two possible values: Sing and Plur
Case has 15 possible values: Abe, Abl, Acc, Ade, All, Com, Ela, Ess, Gen, Ill, Ine, Ins, Nom, Par, Tra

Degree and Polarity

Degree applies to adjectives (ADJ), adverbs (ADV) and participles (VERB or AUX), and has one of three possible values: Pos, Cmp, Sup.
Polarity has only value Neg, and applies to negative verb ‘ei’
Connegative has only value Yes and applies to verbs which have been negated by ‘ei’

Possessives

Layered features are used for possessive suffixes:
- Number[psor] for number and Person[psor] for person of possessor

Syntax

Nominal subject (nsubj) is typically a nominal in the nominative, genitive or partitive case, without preposition.
Objects (obj) can be nominals in nominative, genitive, partitive or accusative case
The copula verb olla (be) is used in equational, attributional, locative, possessive and benefactory nonverbal clauses.
- for possessive structure cop:own subtype is used
genetive modifier uses nmod:poss subtype
acl:relcl is used for relative clauses

Treebanks

There is one Karelian UD treebanks:

Karelian-KKPP