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…tives trigger the feature (UniversalDependencies/UD_English-EWT#526)
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nschneid authored Jun 18, 2024
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Expand Up @@ -29,16 +29,19 @@ morphology. The feature value `Polarity=Pos` is usually used to signal that a le
has negative forms but this particular form is not negative. Using the feature
in such cases is somewhat optional for words that can be negated but rarely are.

For instance, all Czech verbs and adjectives can be negated using the prefix
In Czech, for instance, all verbs and adjectives can be negated using the prefix
_ne-_. In theory, all nouns can be negated too, with the meaning “anything
except the entities denotable by the original noun”. However, negated nouns
are rare and it is not necessary to annotate every positive noun with
`Polarity=Pos`. Language-specific documentation should define under which
circumstances the positive polarity is annotated.

In English, verbs are negated using the [particle](u-pos/PART) _not_ and
adjectives are also negated using prefixes, although the process is less
productive than in Czech _(wise – unwise, probable – improbable)_.
In English, verbs are negated using the [particle](u-pos/PART) _not_.
English adjectives can be negated with _not_, or sometimes using prefixes
_(wise – unwise, probable – improbable)_,
although the use of prefixes is less productive than in Czech.
In general, only the most grammatical (as opposed to lexical) forms of
negation should receive `Polarity=Neg`.

Note that `Polarity=Neg` is not the same thing as
[PronType]()`=Neg`. For pronouns and other pronominal parts of speech
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