Part-Of-Speech Tags

The module determines the lemma(s) and inflection(s) returned by supplying either a Universal Dependencies or Penn Treebank tag. Not all of the tags in these sets are used by LemmInflect. The following is a list of the various types and tags used...

Tag Sets

upos = 'ADJ'
* JJ      Adjective
* JJR     Adjective, comparative
* JJS     Adjective, superlative

upos = 'ADV'
* RB      Adverb
* RBR     Adverb, comparative
* RBS     Adverb, superlative

upos = 'NOUN'
* NN      Noun, singular or mass
* NNS     Noun, plural
*
upos = 'PROPN'
* NNP     Proper noun, singular or mass
* NNPS    Proper noun, plural

upos = 'VERB', 'AUX'
* VB      Verb, base form
* VBD     Verb, past tense
* VBG     Verb, gerund or present participle
* VBN     Verb, past participle
* VBP     Verb, non-3rd person singular present
* VBZ     Verb, 3rd person singular present
* MD      Modal

A Note on AUX and MODAL types

Verbs can be further subdivided into auxiliary verbs, some of which can be modal auxiliary verbs
The Penn Treebank tags have 'MD' but no 'AUX' category
UPOS tags have 'AUX' but no 'MODAL'
The SPECIALIST Lexicon's "category" system has both
To make things more confusing, taggers will sometimes label these as verbs. Luckily the list of these words is small. * AUX verbs: have(has, had), be(is, was, been), do(does, did) * MODAL verbs: can, could, may, might, will, would, shall, should, must, ought, dare