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Part-of-Speech Tagging Guidelines for the Penn Treebank ... - IMS

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mine,asinThat'smine,isaPP,notaPP$. 4PROBLEMATICCASES 27<br />

moreshouldbetaggedasacomparativeadjective(JJR)whenitisusedwithoutaheadnounandit minimum,asinminimumwage,isanoun(NN),notanadjective(JJ).<br />

EXAMPLES: (RBR)whenitsuseisparalleltoo<strong>the</strong>radverbs. correspondsto<strong>the</strong>object<strong>of</strong>averborpreposition.Itshouldbetaggedasacomparativeadverb Youshouldeatmore/JJR(interms<strong>of</strong>quantity). (cf.Youshouldeatmore/JJRfruit.) Youshouldeatmore/RBR(interms<strong>of</strong>frequency). (cf.Youshouldeat<strong>of</strong>ten/RB.)<br />

Moreshouldbetaggedasacomparativeadjective(JJR)evenwhenitoccurswithoutaheadnoun. Youshouldrelaxmore/RBR.<br />

Again,however,ifitlls<strong>the</strong>samepositionasanadverb,itshouldbetaggedasacomparativeadverb (cf.Youshouldworkharder/RBR.)<br />

(RBR). EXAMPLES: It'smore/JJR<strong>of</strong>avegetablegarden. growstovefeetormore/JJR cf.*It'salmost/RB<strong>of</strong>avegetablegarden. more/JJR<strong>of</strong>myfriends<br />

But:<br />

most,shouldbetaggedasasuperlativeadjective(JJS)evenwhenitoccurswithoutaheadnoun,asin It'smore/RBRavegetablegarden.<br />

most<strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong>time.Thereasonisthatitsdistributionisparalleltothat<strong>of</strong>o<strong>the</strong>rsuperlativeadjectives; It'salmost/RBavegetablegarden.<br />

cf.<strong>the</strong>following: EXAMPLES:mostapples; <strong>the</strong>ripestapples;<strong>the</strong>ripest<strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong>apples <strong>the</strong>ripest<strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong>bunch most<strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong>bunch most<strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong>apples<br />

muchcanbeanadjective(JJ)oranadverb(RB). In<strong>the</strong>collocationmostevery-,mostisasimpleadverb(RB).<br />

EXAMPLES: That'smuch/RBbetteralready. Ilikethatquitewell;infact,Ilikeitverymuch/RB.<br />

Shesaidnothing,oratleastnotverymuch/JJ. Hedoesn'thavemuch/JJenergyleft.

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