14. Universal features

The Universal Dependencies site offers an essential handbook and reference on the UD standards. The section on universal features can be useful when annotating the morphological features of the tokens in your texts.

For example:

ID  FORM    lemma   pos xpos    feats
221	Claudia	Claudia	PROPN	_	NounType=Prop|Number=Sing	_	_	_	_
222	rolls	roll	VERB	_	Number=Sing|Person=Three|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	_	_	_	_
223	her	she	PRON	_	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	_	_	_	_
224	eyes	eye	NOUN	_	Number=Plur	_	_	_	_

The features column allows you to mark important aspects of the token such as its case, number, tense and form. The syntax for features is a UD feature label (such as Number) followed by an equal sign and then the value. If you have several features, they should be ordered alphabetically and separated by a pipe (|).

• A full list of features can be found here: https://universaldependencies.org/u/feat/index.html

• Further details on feature standards can be found here: https://universaldependencies.org/format.html#morphological-annotation