Part-of-speech Annotation: An Example.

This example is taken from the Spoken English Corpus and used the C7 tagset:

Perdita&NN1-NP0; ,&PUN; covering&VVG; the&AT0; bottom&NN1; of&PRF; the&AT0; lorries&NN2; with&PRP; straw&NN1; to&TO0; protect&VVI; the&AT0; ponies&NN2; '&POS; feet&NN2; ,&PUN; suddenly&AV0; heard&VVD-VVN; Alejandro&NN1-NP0; shouting&VVG; that&CJT; she&PNP; better&AV0; dig&VVB; out&AVP; a&AT0; pair&NN0; of&PRF; clean&AJ0; breeches&NN2; and&CJC; polish&VVB; her&DPS; boots&NN2; ,&PUN; as*CJS; she&PNP; 'd&VM0; be&VBI; playing&VVG; in&PRP; the&AT0; match&NN1; that&DT0; afternoon&NN1; .&PUN;

The codes used are:

AJ0: general adjective
AT0: article, neutral for number
AV0: general adverb
AVP: prepositional adverb
CJC: co-ordinating conjunction
CJS: subordinating conjunction
CJT: that conjunction
DPS: possessive determiner
DT0: singular determiner
NN0: common noun, neutral for number
NN1: singular common noun
NN2: plural common noun
NP0: proper noun
POS: genitive marker
PNP: pronoun
PRF: of
PRP: prepostition
PUN: punctuation
TO0: infintive to
VBI: be
VM0: modal auxiliary
VVB: base form of lexical verb
VVD: past tense form of lexical verb
VVG: -ing form of lexical verb
VVI: infinitive form of lexical verb
VVN: past participle form of lexical verb

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