ToJEVAL To-clause after evaluative adjective
Definition
To-clause preceded by an evaluative adjective.
Detection Rules
Adjective from list + to + verb base form.
cql[lemma={words} & pos="JJ.*"] [pos="TO"] [pos="VB"]
Word list (22 items)
bad
best
better
convenient
essential
good
important
inappropriate
interesting
necessary
nice
reasonable
silly
smart
stupid
surprising
unreasonable
useful
useless
wise
worse
wrong
Normalization
Per words
Examples
good to
important to
Sources
- biber_2006 — Biber, Douglas (2006) : University Language — A Corpus-based Study of Spoken and Written Registers
- mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version