WNSTATS(7WN)

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💖 WNSTATS — bestie edition ✨

okay so this one is wnstats, and it lives in section 7WN of the manual (yes, that's the WordNet™ corner of the man pages, we love her 💅). It's not a command you run, it's a receipt — it's the WordNet 3.0 database statistics, and she is serving numbers. 🎀

🌸 NAME 🌸

wnstats — WordNet 3.0 database statistics 🦋

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

📊 Number of words, synsets, and senses

kay so this is the big one, the main character table. It's giving "how many words do we even have" and the answer is a lot. Columns are POS, Unique Strings, Synsets, and Total Word-Sense Pairs. 💖

  • Noun — Unique Strings: 117798, Synsets: 82115, Total Word-Sense Pairs: 146312
  • Verb — Unique Strings: 11529, Synsets: 13767, Total Word-Sense Pairs: 25047
  • Adjective — Unique Strings: 21479, Synsets: 18156, Total Word-Sense Pairs: 30002
  • Adverb — Unique Strings: 4481, Synsets: 3621, Total Word-Sense Pairs: 5580
  • Totals — Unique Strings: 155287, Synsets: 120982, Total Word-Sense Pairs: 206941

like… 206941 word-sense pairs?? we ate, no crumbs. 🍓

🔁 Polysemy information

polysemy is just "how many meanings does this word have", and bestie, some of these words are busy. 🌈 Columns here are POS, Monosemous Words and Senses, Polysemous Words, and Polysemous Senses.

  • Noun — Monosemous Words and Senses: 101863, Polysemous Words: 15935, Polysemous Senses: 44449
  • Verb — Monosemous Words and Senses: 6277, Polysemous Words: 5252, Polysemous Senses: 18770
  • Adjective — Monosemous Words and Senses: 16503, Polysemous Words: 4976, Polysemous Senses: 14399
  • Adverb — Monosemous Words and Senses: 3748, Polysemous Words: 733, Polysemous Senses: 1832
  • Totals — Monosemous Words and Senses: 128391, Polysemous Words: 26896, Polysemous Senses: 79450

and then, same subsection, the averages. 👑 Columns: POS, Average Polysemy Including Monosemous Words, Average Polysemy Excluding Monosemous Words.

  • Noun — Average Polysemy Including Monosemous Words: 1.24, Average Polysemy Excluding Monosemous Words: 2.79
  • Verb — Average Polysemy Including Monosemous Words: 2.17, Average Polysemy Excluding Monosemous Words: 3.57
  • Adjective — Average Polysemy Including Monosemous Words: 1.40, Average Polysemy Excluding Monosemous Words: 2.71
  • Adverb — Average Polysemy Including Monosemous Words: 1.25, Average Polysemy Excluding Monosemous Words: 2.50

verbs really said "I contain multitudes" and meant it. 😭

📝 NOTES 📝

  • Statistics for all types of adjectives and adjective satellites are combined. (yes, satellites. they're in there too. 🛰️)
  • okay this next one is the plot twist 🫶 The total of all unique noun, verb, adjective, and adverb strings is actually 147278. But — and this is the part people trip on — many strings are unique within a syntactic category, but are in more than one syntactic category. So the figures in the table represent the unique strings in each syntactic category. not the global count. iykyk. 💀
do NOT add up the table and be like "why isn't it 147278" — that's literally the whole point of the note. 🧚

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this was WordNet 3.0, dated Dec 2006, and it's filed under WNSTATS(7WN). slay, periodt, go read a dictionary or something 💜✨🎀

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