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Nominals (PoS)

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Nominals
  • contains the noun-head and any pre-modifiers and post-modifiers of the noun-head

Nominal Types

Nominal Type

Sub-Type

Examples

Grammar Rule

Pre-Modifier Type

Quantifiers, Cardinals, Ordinals
  • three cars

Nominal → Quantifier Nominal | Cardinal Nominal | Ordinal Nominal

Adjectives
  • large cars

Nominal → Adj Nominal

Post-Modifier Type

Prepositional Phrases
  • cars from Seattle

Nominal → Nominal PrepositionalPhrase

Non-finite Clauses
  • cars arriving before noon

Nominal → Nominal GerundVerbPhrase

Relative Clauses
  • cars that run on gasoline

Nominal → Nominal RelativeClause

ordering constraints:

  • three large cars
  • large three cars