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
  • PART is currently not used
  • PRON with PronType=Dem is usually preferred over DET where possible
• 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:
  • 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

• Livvi 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 Livvi UD treebanks:

• Livvi-KKPP

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