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advmod: adverbial modifier

An adverbial modifier of a word is a (non-clausal) adverb or adverbial phrase (ADVP) that serves to modify the meaning of the word.

Genetically modified food
advmod(modified, Genetically)
less often
advmod(often, less)

Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This relation is universal.

11246 nodes (4%) are attached to their parents as advmod.

7998 instances of advmod (71%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 2.2089631869109.

The following 64 pairs of parts of speech are connected with advmod: en-pos/VERB-en-pos/ADV (6543; 58% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/ADV (2162; 19% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/ADV (1166; 10% instances), en-pos/ADV-en-pos/ADV (657; 6% instances), en-pos/NUM-en-pos/ADV (149; 1% instances), en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/ADV (115; 1% instances), en-pos/PRON-en-pos/ADV (57; 1% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/ADJ (49; 0% instances), en-pos/NUM-en-pos/ADJ (28; 0% instances), en-pos/SYM-en-pos/ADV (27; 0% instances), en-pos/DET-en-pos/ADV (24; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/X (22; 0% instances), en-pos/NUM-en-pos/ADP (20; 0% instances), en-pos/AUX-en-pos/ADV (18; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/ADJ (18; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/NOUN (17; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/X (15; 0% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/ADJ (13; 0% instances), en-pos/PART-en-pos/ADV (13; 0% instances), en-pos/NUM-en-pos/SYM (12; 0% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/X (9; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/NOUN (9; 0% instances), en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/X (8; 0% instances), en-pos/ADP-en-pos/ADV (7; 0% instances), en-pos/INTJ-en-pos/ADV (5; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/NUM (5; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/ADP (5; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/DET (5; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/SCONJ (5; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/VERB (5; 0% instances), en-pos/ADV-en-pos/ADJ (4; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/ADP (4; 0% instances), en-pos/SYM-en-pos/ADJ (4; 0% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/VERB (3; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/DET (3; 0% instances), en-pos/NUM-en-pos/DET (3; 0% instances), en-pos/SYM-en-pos/SYM (3; 0% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/NOUN (2; 0% instances), en-pos/ADV-en-pos/NOUN (2; 0% instances), en-pos/CONJ-en-pos/ADV (2; 0% instances), en-pos/DET-en-pos/ADJ (2; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/NUM (2; 0% instances), en-pos/SYM-en-pos/ADP (2; 0% instances), en-pos/ADP-en-pos/ADP (1; 0% instances), en-pos/ADP-en-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), en-pos/ADV-en-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances), en-pos/ADV-en-pos/X (1; 0% instances), en-pos/AUX-en-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), en-pos/DET-en-pos/ADP (1; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/SCONJ (1; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/SYM (1; 0% instances), en-pos/NUM-en-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances), en-pos/NUM-en-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), en-pos/PRON-en-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), en-pos/PRON-en-pos/CONJ (1; 0% instances), en-pos/PRON-en-pos/DET (1; 0% instances), en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/DET (1; 0% instances), en-pos/PUNCT-en-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), en-pos/SCONJ-en-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), en-pos/SYM-en-pos/DET (1; 0% instances), en-pos/SYM-en-pos/X (1; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/PART (1; 0% instances).

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1	Read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	article	article	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	dobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	there	there	PRON	EX	_	7	expl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	punchline	punchline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
11	too	too	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_

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1	My	my	PRON	PRP$	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	too	too	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	complicated	complicated	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	right	right	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
8	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	do	do	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	job	job	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	dobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_

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1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	's	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Senate	Senate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	term	term	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	--	--	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	particularly	particularly	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	judges	judge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_


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