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Features
- PP/REL modifiers
- Prepositional phrases and relative clauses that are used as
modifiers (i.e., grammatically optional).
- Example PP modifier:
- John eats pizza with a fork,
Mary eats pizza with broccoli.
- Example of non-modifying PP:
- John believes in Mary ("in" is part of verb frame)
- Example REL modifier:
- This is not a book that should be tossed
away lightly, it is to be hurled with great force.
- Average dependency length
- Average distance between words that are dependent on each other.
Examples:
- Simple dependency
- big apple. big modifies apple (distance 0).
- Longer dependency
Ending a sentence with a preposition is the sort of English
up with which I will not put. (attributed, probably incorrectly, to Churchill)
"Ending" is dependent on "is" (distance 6);
"sort" is dependent on "put" (distance 9).
Cf. Gibson (2000), The dependency locality theory: A distance-based theory of linguistic complexity.
- D-level
- A measure of sentence complexity
based on work in developmental psychology.
- simple sentence
- non-finite clause with subject coindexed from main clause
- coordinated structure
- finite clause as objects (and equivalents)
- non-finite clause as object with overt subject
- subordinate clause
- a subordinate clause modifying the subject
- sentence with multiple subordinate clauses
See http://www.personal.psu.edu/xxl13/downloads/d-level.html
- Direct speech
- Matches sentences with direct speech punctuation.
- Punctuation
- Punctuation tokens; ordered (somewhat arbitrarily) as follows:
- period: .
- comma: ,
- quotation mark: '
- double quote: "
- question mark: ?
- exclamation mark: !
- parenthesis: (
- colon: :
- semicolon: ;
- Rare words
- Words that are not in the 20,000 most common words of
a reference corpus (Sonar 500 million words). Names are not counted.
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