Accepted Features for VERB, NOUN, PRONOUN, DET, ORDINAL, CARDINAL and PUNCTUATION

                                                                     

          
VERB:
     ENDING: {ROOT, INFINITIVE, PAST-PARTICIPLE, PRESENT-PARTICIPLE}
     NUMBER: {SINGULAR, PLURAL}
     PERSON: {FIRST, SECOND, THIRD}
     TENSE : {PRESENT, PAST}


NOUN:
     NUMBER: {SINGULAR, PLURAL}
     FEATURE:{POSSESSIVE}
     A-AN:   {AN, CONSONANT}


PRONOUN:
     PRONOUN-TYPE: {PERSONAL, DEMONSTRATIVE, QUESTION, QUANTIFIED}
     CASE:         {SUBJECTIVE, POSSESSIVE, OBJECTIVE, REFLEXIVE}
     GENDER:       {MASCULINE, FEMININE, NEUTER}
     PERSON:       {FIRST, SECOND, THIRD}
     NUMBER:       {SINGULAR, PLURAL}
     DISTANCE:     {NEAR, FAR}


DET :
     NUMBER: {SINGULAR, PLURAL}


PUNCTUATION:
     BEFORE: {`;', `,', `:', `(', `)', ...}
     AFTER : {`;', `,', `:', `(', `)', ...}


ORDINAL, CARDINAL:
     VALUE:  a number (integer or float, positive or negative)
     DIGIT:  {YES, NO}
          
          

   

The feature A-AN is used to indicate exceptions to the rule: normally, a noun starting with a consonant is preceded by the indefinite article ``a'' and if the noun starts with a vowel, it is preceded by ``an.'' Some nouns start with a consonant but must still be preceded by ``an'' (for example, ``honor'' or acronyms ``an RST''). In that case, the feature (a-an an) must be added to the corresponding noun.