MOR manual?

[Brian Macwhinney]

The main page for Universal Dependencies is universaldependencies.org <http://universaldependencies.org/>.  At that page the links under “Understanding UD” as the most important.
In particular the links go to
1. "UPOS tags" for the list of universal part of speech tags
2.  “Deprels” for the description of the grammatical relations.
3.  “Feats” for a summary of available features.
#1 and #2 or partially universal, #3 is decidedly not.
For each language there is extensive further docementation if you click on the language in the list and then the “language documentation” page.

These codes and concepts are very widely accepted in the NLP community and also by at least some linguists.  

— Brian MacWhinney
Teresa Heinz Professor of Cognitive Psychology, 
Language Technologies and Modern Languages, CMU 

> On Nov 18, 2025, at 6:02 PM, Leonid Spektor <spektor at andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:
> 
> Yes, there is still a %mor tier. It just has different notation. The noun and verbs in UD format simply are "noun|" and "verb|". In old MOR they are "n|" and "v|". You are right that there is no easy way to get information about UD format. The Universal Dependencies web page has all the necessary information, but it is buried deep among all other clutter. On their web page https://universaldependencies.org look for Annotation guidelines <https://universaldependencies.org/guidelines.html> and click on that link. Next on "UD Guidelines" web page click on Morphology <https://universaldependencies.org/u/overview/morphology.html> link. Then on "Morphology: General Principle" web page you can see what you are looking for. Particularly look at the list of universal POS tags <https://universaldependencies.org/u/pos/index.html>.
> 
> I hope this helps.
> 
> 
> Leonid.
> 
>> On Nov 18, 2025, at 17:28, Jennifer Ganger <jennifer.ganger at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> Ah, okay. 
>> Is there still a %mor tier? I had already poked around this mailing group archive and the Talkbank website, and I couldn't find a beginner-friendly explanation of how one could search for things like nouns or verbs in CLAN using UD. Am I thinking about this all wrong?
>> We can take it off the list if everyone else already knows this!
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Jenny
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Nov 18, 2025 at 5:07 PM Brian Macwhinney <macw at andrew.cmu.edu <mailto:macw at andrew.cmu.edu>> wrote:
>>> Dear Jenny,
>>>     Nearly two years ago, we shifted away from using MOR to using Universal Dependencies (UD) which is going to give a very different MLU count.   I’ve posted various messages Have you been able to track any of this.  I would be happy to explain in detail.  I do have a copy of the MOR manual, but given the fact that all of the data in all of TalkBank is now in UD format, the older MOR format is not that relevant.  
>>> 
>>> —Brian
>>> 
>>>> On Nov 18, 2025, at 4:23 PM, Jennifer Ganger <jennifer.ganger at gmail.com <mailto:jennifer.ganger at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hello,
>>>> I am wondering if there is still a MOR manual and if so, where I could find it.
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jenny
>>>> 
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