Table 3. Summary of the types of grammatical categories (POS) and the number of sub-categories used to approximate sequential syntactic information processing.
| Dutch POS | tag | # | English equivalent | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| substantieven | N | 18 | Nouns | het kind |
| adjectieven | ADJ | 30 | Adjectives | de mooie huizen |
| werkwoorden | WW | 21 | Verbs | ik kom |
| telwoorden | TW | 11 | Quantifiers | vier cijfers |
| voornaamwoorden | VNW | 188 | Pronouns | ik |
| lidwoorden | LID | 9 | Articles | de hond |
| voorzetsels | VZ | 3 | Prepositions | in het hospitaal |
| voegwoorden | VG | 2 | Conjunctions | Jan en Peter |
| bijwoorden | BW | 1 | Adverbs | gisteren |
| tussenwerpsels | TSW | 1 | Interjections | hoera! |
| speciale tokens | SPEC | 35 | special forms | |
| leestekens | LET | 1 | Punctuation | . |
| TOTAL | 320 |