July 2017
Beginner to intermediate
715 pages
17h 3m
English
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Understanding POS tags
The POS elements returned abbreviations. A list of Penn TreeBankPOS tags can be found at https://www.ling.upenn.edu/courses/Fall_2003/ling001/penn_treebank_pos.html. The following is a shortened version of this list:
| Tag | Description | Tag | Description |
| DT | Determiner | RB | Adverb |
| JJ | Adjective | RBR | Adverb, comparative |
| JJR | Adjective, comparative | RBS | Adverb, superlative |
| JJS | Adjective, superlative | RP | Particle |
| NN | Noun, singular or mass | SYM | Symbol |
| NNS | Noun, plural | TOP | Top of the parse tree |
| NNP | Proper noun, singular | VB | Verb, base form |
| NNPS | Proper noun, plural | VBD | Verb, past tense |
| POS | Possessive ending | VBG | Verb, gerund or present participle |
| PRP | Personal pronoun | VBN | Verb, past participle |
| PRP$ | Possessive pronoun ... |