lemma of "comparatives"

[livyreal]

"maior", "melhor" and "ótimo" in Freeling dictionary have lemmas "maior", "melhor" and "ótimo". We have discussed it before ( @fcbr, @arademaker and me) and decided that not always these adjectives are used as comparatives (specially "ótimo" and we decided that having an uniform treatment would be the better choice), so the best way to tag them would be keep themselves as lemmas.

In Bosque [1,2](what comes from PALAVRAS), the lemmas of these words are: "grande", "bom" and "bom".

The same situation for "péssimo", "pior" and "menor". (except by "péssimo" whose Freeling lemma is "mau", but it something that I should have corrected before but I didn't).

What solution should we take now?

I prefer to keep the lemmas as the word themselves, maior maior; ótimo ótimo, etc. Mainly because I do not think this relations really exist nowadays, it is something from Latin grammar that survived in traditional grammar. It seems to me "horrível", "terrível", "horroroso" are so related to "mau" as "péssimo" is.

For reference:

• [1] Bosque 7.5 Universal dependencies, file bosque_CP.udep.conll.gz,
• [2] Bosque 7.5 Universal dependencies, file bosque_CF.udep.conll.gz
• [3] Bosque version 7.3, converted by Dan Zeman available in http://github.com/UniversalDependencies/UD_Portuguese
• [4] Linguateca Version of Bosque CoNLL (7.3), http://www.linguateca.pt/floresta/CoNLL-X/