MFTE Features

Features from the Multi-Feature Tagger of English (Le Foll & Shakir, 2023/2025), mapped to CLEF codes.

Direct Matches (102)

CLEF code = MFTE code.

Code Name
ACT Activity verbs
AMP Amplifiers
ASPECT Aspectual verbs
AWL Average word length
BEMA BE as main verb
CAUSE Causative/facilitation verbs
CC Coordinating conjunctions
CD Cardinal numbers
COMM Communication verbs
COMPAR Comparative forms
CONC Concessive conjunctions
COND Conditional conjunctions
CONT Verbal contractions
CUZ Causal conjunctions
DMA Discourse/pragmatic markers
DOAUX DO auxiliary
DT Determiners
DWNT Downtoners
EMPH Emphatics
EX Existential THERE
EXIST Existential/relationship verbs
FPUH Filled pauses and interjections
FREQ Frequency adverbs
HDG Hedges
HGOT HAVE got
IN Prepositions
JJAT Attributive adjectives
JJCOLR Colour adjectives
JJPR Predicative adjectives
JJREL Relational/classifying adjectives
JJSIZE Size adjectives
JJTIME Time adjectives
LDE Lexical density estimate
MDCA CAN/COULD modals
MDCO COULD modal
MDMM MAY/MIGHT modals
MDNE Necessity modals
MDWO WOULD modal
MDWS WILL/SHALL modals
MENTAL Mental verbs
NCOMP Noun + noun compounds
NN Common nouns
NNABSPROC Abstract process nouns
NNCOG Cognitive nouns
NNCONC Concrete nouns
NNGRP Group/collective nouns
NNHUMAN Human nouns
NNP Proper nouns
NNPLACE Place nouns
NNQUANT Quantity nouns
NNTECH Technical nouns
NOMZ Nominalizations
OCCUR Occurrence verbs
PASS Agentless passives
PEAS Perfect aspect
PIT Pronoun IT
PLACE Place adverbs
POLITE Politeness markers
POS Possessives
PROG Progressive aspect
PrepNSTNC Preposition after stance noun
QUAN Quantifiers
QUPR Quantifier pronouns
QUTAG Tag questions
RB Adverbs
RFACT Factive adverbs
RNONFACT Non-factive adverbs
RP Particles
SPLIT Split auxiliaries
SUPER Superlative forms
THATD THAT deletion
THRC Relative clauses
THSC Subordinating conjunctions
TIME Time adverbs
TTR Type-token ratio
ThVCOMM That-clause after communication verb
ThVFCT That-clause after factive verb
ToVDSR To-clause after desire verb
ToVEFRT To-clause after effort verb
ToVMNTL To-clause after mental verb
ToVSPCH To-clause after speech act verb
VBD Past tense
VBG Present participial -ing
VBN Past participial -ed
VIMP Imperatives
VPRT Non-3rd person present
WHQU WH questions
WHSC WH subordinators
WhVCOM WH-clause after communication verb
WhVFCT WH-clause after factive verb
XX0 Analytic negation
YNQU Yes/no questions
INother Prepositions (residual)
JJATother Attributive adjectives (residual)
JJATDother Attributive adjectives post-determiner (residual)
JJEPSTother Epistemic adjectives (residual)
JJPRother Predicative adjectives (residual)
NNother Common nouns (residual)
RBother Adverbs (residual)
THRCother Relative clauses (residual)
THSCother Subordinators (residual)
WHSCother WH subordinators (residual)

Splits (21)

MFTE merges features that CLEF separates.

DEMO Demonstratives (all)

PP1S First person singular pronouns

PP1P First person plural pronouns

PP1all First person pronouns (all)

PP2 Second person pronouns

PP3t Third person plural pronouns

PP3f Third person singular feminine (she)

PP3m Third person singular masculine (he)

PP3all Third person pronouns (all)

MDPOSSCall Possibility modals (all)

MDPREDall Prediction modals (all)

PASSall Passives (all)

RSTNCall Stance markers (all)

ThSTNCall That-clause stance noun complements (all)

ThVSTNCall That-clause stance verb complements (all)

ToJEASE To-clause after ease adjective

ToJSTNCall To-clause stance adjective complements (all)

ToSTNCall To-clause stance noun complements (all)

ToVSTNCall To-clause stance verb complements (all)

WhVSTNCall WH-clause stance verb complements (all)

Words Word count