UD for Livvi (Olonets-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.
- for tokens with spaces, we split the morphological analyser’s analyses and use fixed where applicable, e.g. “sen ližäkse” (additionally) = fixed(ližäkse, sen)
Morphology
Tags
- Livvi uses all 17 universal POS categories
- Livvi has following auxiliaries:
- “olla” (to be, also to own etc.)
- “ei” (inflected negation verb)
- modals: “voija” (can), “suaha” (may), “pidiä” (must), “rotie” (will), (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:
- Mood has four values:
Cnd,Imp,IndorPot. - Tense has two values:
PastorPres. - Voice has two values:
ActandPass. - Person has four values,
0,1,2and3. - Number has values
SingorPlur.
Nominal Features
- Livvi does not have Gender feature
- Number feature has two possible values:
SingandPlur - 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
Yesand 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 Livvi UD treebanks: