Transcript Deriving Nouns from Numerals Deriving Adjectives and Nouns from Numerals Kristina Vučković, Sara Librenjak, Zdravko Dovedan University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social.

Deriving Nouns from Numerals
Deriving Adjectives and Nouns
from Numerals
Kristina Vučković, Sara Librenjak, Zdravko Dovedan
University of Zagreb, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
{kvuckovi, slibrenj,zdovedan}@ffzg.hr
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Overview of the work
Deriving Nouns from Numerals
1. about numerals in Croatian : pg. 3
2. counting masculine nouns : pg. 4 - 6
3. different meanings -ICA : pg. 7 - 8
4. approximate number : pg. 9
5. dividers : pg. 10 – 11
6. different meanings –OJKA|-ORKA : pg. 12 – 13
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7. results : pg. 14
About numerals
Deriving Nouns from Numerals
 numerals as numbers
 1, 3, 5, 15, 25, 100, 1450, …
 numerals as words
 jedan, tri, pet, petnaest, dvadeset i pet, sto, …
 one, three, five, fifteen, twenty five, hundred, …
 numerals as prefix to adjectives
 jednodnevni, tromjesečni, petogodišnji, …
 of one day, of three months, of five years, …
 numerals as nouns
 numerals + suffix (-ICA | -ORKA | - AK | -INA)
 dvadesetica, dvadesetorka, dvadesetak, dvadesetina
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counting masculine nouns
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 intead of using a number
 dva dječaka -> two boys
 numeral nouns can be used
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2: dva -> dvojica dječaka
3: tri -> trojica dječaka
4: četiri -> četvorica dječaka
5: pet -> petorica dječaka
6: šest -> šestorica dječaka
7: sedam -> sedmorica dječaka
8: osam -> osmorica dječaka
9: devet -> devetorica dječaka
10: deset -> desetorica dječaka
followed by
<N+G+m+p>
Noun
Genitive
masculine
plural
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ICA
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ICA ->
2-10
(2..9)*10
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(2..9)*100
grade in school|size of clothes |
money bill
Deriving Nouns from Numerals
 dvica – (2) grade in school|size of clothes
 trica – (3) grade in school|size of clothes
 petica – (5) grade in school|size of clothes
 jedanaestica – (11) size of clothes
 pedesetica – (50) size of clothes | money bill of 50
 stotica – (100) size of clothes | money bill of 100
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ICA 2
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approximate number
Deriving Nouns from Numerals
 numerals:
 9 through 20
 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 90
 100, 200, 300, 400, 500, 600, 700, 800, 900
 meaning ‘approximately’
 devetak dječaka – around 9 boys
followed by
<NP+G+p+m|f|n>
 stotinjak dječaka – around 100 boys
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dividers
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 when part of something (not time):
 trećina dječaka – one third of boys
 petina dječaka – one fifth of boys
 dvije trećine dječaka – two thirds of boys
 when part of time:
 trećinka vremena – one third of time
 petinka vremena – one fifth of time
 all are in feminine gender <N+f>
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INA -> 1/3, 3/5, 7/27…
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Grade | group of # people
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 dvojka – 2 | twins | group of 2 people
 petorka – 5 | quintuplets| group of 5 people
 dvanaestorka – 12 | duodecaplets | group of 12
people
 tridesetorka – 30 | twins | group of 30 people
 all are Nouns in feminine gender <N+f>
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Deriving Nouns from Numerals
OJKA|ORKA ->
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Measures
Deriving Nouns from Numerals
 288 examples
 all were marked
 all were correct
 Precision : 100
 Recall : 100
 f-measure : 100
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