LT POS can be used with the
Penn Treebank tagset. It is the tag set used in the LT POS demo.
Here are the most important tags.
For the complete set, see:
M. Marcus, Beatrice Santorini and M.A. Marcinkiewicz:
Building a large annotated corpus of English: The Penn Treebank.
In Computational Linguistics, volume 19, number 2, pp313-330.
| POS Tag | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|
| CC | coordinating conjunction | and |
| CD | cardinal number | 1, third |
| DT | determiner | the |
| EX | existential there | there is |
| FW | foreign word | d'hoevre |
| IN | preposition/subordinating conjunction | in, of, like |
| JJ | adjective | green |
| JJR | adjective, comparative | greener |
| JJS | adjective, superlative | greenest |
| LS | list marker | 1) |
| MD | modal | could, will |
| NN | noun, singular or mass | table |
| NNS | noun plural | tables |
| NNP | proper noun, singular | John |
| NNPS | proper noun, plural | Vikings |
| PDT | predeterminer | both the boys |
| POS | possessive ending | friend's |
| PRP | personal pronoun | I, he, it |
| PRP$ | possessive pronoun | my, his |
| RB | adverb | however, usually, naturally, here, good |
| RBR | adverb, comparative | better |
| RBS | adverb, superlative | best |
| RP | particle | give up |
| TO | to | to go, to him |
| UH | interjection | uhhuhhuhh |
| VB | verb, base form | take |
| VBD | verb, past tense | took |
| VBG | verb, gerund/present participle | taking |
| VBN | verb, past participle | taken |
| VBP | verb, sing. present, non-3d | take |
| VBZ | verb, 3rd person sing. present | takes |
| WDT | wh-determiner | which |
| WP | wh-pronoun | who, what |
| WP$ | possessive wh-pronoun | whose |
| WRB | wh-abverb | where, when |