AUX: auxiliary verb
The English AUX covers PTB MD and uses of the various verbal tags (VB, VBP, VBG, VBN, VBD, VBZ) when they are forms of be, have, do, and get when used as an auxiliary (we count passive get as an auxiliary).
Treebank Statistics (UD_English)
There are 38 AUX lemmas (0%), 71 AUX types (0%) and 9748 AUX tokens (4%).
Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of AUX is: 15 in number of lemmas, 14 in number of types and 10 in number of tokens.
The 10 most frequent AUX lemmas: be, have, will, do, can, would, could, should, may, might
The 10 most frequent AUX types: will, can, would, have, do, is, was, be, are, has
The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: be (VERB 6553, AUX 2940, NOUN 2, X 1), have (VERB 1668, AUX 1567), will (AUX 1262, NOUN 6, PROPN 1, SCONJ 1), do (AUX 1135, VERB 669, NOUN 2, ADV 1, PROPN 1, ADP 1), can (AUX 877, NOUN 7, VERB 3), may (AUX 226, PROPN 1), must (AUX 76, NOUN 3), get (VERB 744, AUX 41), of (ADP 4163, SCONJ 165, ADV 48, AUX 3, CONJ 1), nt (PART 91, AUX 2, NOUN 1)
The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: will (AUX 982, NOUN 6, PROPN 1, SCONJ 1), can (AUX 716, NOUN 6), have (VERB 938, AUX 720), do (AUX 576, VERB 331, NOUN 2, ADV 1, PROPN 1, ADP 1), is (VERB 2213, AUX 527, ADV 1, PRON 1), was (VERB 962, AUX 505), be (VERB 854, AUX 507, NOUN 2, X 1), are (VERB 906, AUX 459), has (AUX 436, VERB 208), did (AUX 231, VERB 95)
- will
- can
- have
- do
- AUX 576: And what do we get for this effort ?
- VERB 331: My life is too complicated right now trying to do my job .
- NOUN 2: We arrived Sunday at about 230 and found a do we really liked .
- ADV 1: I heard that more may be going up for sale in the next month or do .
- PROPN 1: The nearest towns to the site are Puerto Iguazu in Argentina , about 12 miles from the falls , and Foz do Iguacu in Brazil , which is equally close .
- ADP 1: Unfortunately , do to Mr. Lay ‘s schedule he will not be able to participate .
- is
- VERB 2213: The hottest item on Christmas wish lists this year is nuclear weapons .
- AUX 527: It is rumored that North Korea has at least a couple nuclear weapons .
- ADV 1: Then the need to be mature , that is , old enough , and big enough to breed .
- PRON 1: You do n’t think is was because of female nudes considering the nearly naked girls / women seen at pools and beaches and the completely naked manikins that show up in store windows in malls during changes in display ?
- was
- be
- VERB 854: Right now that seems to be the US , EU , and IAEA .
- AUX 507: Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 may be downloaded for FREE from www.adobe.com .
- NOUN 2: Talked to the little mother - to - be .
- X 1: Anthony Shadid of the Washington Post reveals that the warrants for the arrests had been issued months be for .
- are
- has
- did
Morphology
The form / lemma ratio of AUX is 1.868421 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.173588).
The 1st highest number of forms (16) was observed with the lemma “be”: ‘m, ‘re, ‘s, ai, am, are, be, been, being, is, m, r, re, s, was, were.
The 2nd highest number of forms (8) was observed with the lemma “have”: ‘d, ‘ve, had, has, have, having, v, ve.
The 3rd highest number of forms (5) was observed with the lemma “will”: ‘ll, ll, will, wilt, wo.
AUX occurs with 5 features: en-feat/VerbForm (9746; 100% instances), en-feat/Tense (4812; 49% instances), en-feat/Mood (4685; 48% instances), en-feat/Number (1871; 19% instances), en-feat/Person (1868; 19% instances)
AUX occurs with 11 feature-value pairs: Mood=Imp, Mood=Ind, Number=Sing, Person=1, Person=3, Tense=Past, Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Fin, VerbForm=Ger, VerbForm=Inf, VerbForm=Part
AUX occurs with 13 feature combinations.
The most frequent feature combination is VerbForm=Fin (4052 tokens).
Examples: will, can, would, could, do, should, have, is, was, are
Relations
AUX nodes are attached to their parents using 15 different relations: en-dep/aux (8047; 83% instances), en-dep/auxpass (1595; 16% instances), en-dep/advcl (34; 0% instances), en-dep/acl:relcl (17; 0% instances), en-dep/root (16; 0% instances), en-dep/conj (14; 0% instances), en-dep/ccomp (9; 0% instances), en-dep/cop (5; 0% instances), en-dep/parataxis (4; 0% instances), en-dep/neg (2; 0% instances), en-dep/appos (1; 0% instances), en-dep/compound (1; 0% instances), en-dep/mark (1; 0% instances), en-dep/reparandum (1; 0% instances), en-dep/xcomp (1; 0% instances)
Parents of AUX nodes belong to 12 different parts of speech: VERB (8890; 91% instances), ADJ (420; 4% instances), NOUN (271; 3% instances), ADV (80; 1% instances), PROPN (33; 0% instances), ROOT (16; 0% instances), NUM (11; 0% instances), PRON (10; 0% instances), ADP (7; 0% instances), DET (5; 0% instances), AUX (4; 0% instances), SYM (1; 0% instances)
9659 (99%) AUX nodes are leaves.
21 (0%) AUX nodes have one child.
36 (0%) AUX nodes have two children.
32 (0%) AUX nodes have three or more children.
The highest child degree of a AUX node is 7.
Children of AUX nodes are attached using 19 different relations: en-dep/nsubj (80; 36% instances), en-dep/mark (36; 16% instances), en-dep/punct (23; 10% instances), en-dep/advmod (19; 8% instances), en-dep/neg (12; 5% instances), en-dep/advcl (11; 5% instances), en-dep/conj (8; 4% instances), en-dep/cc (7; 3% instances), en-dep/xcomp (6; 3% instances), en-dep/dobj (5; 2% instances), en-dep/aux (3; 1% instances), en-dep/nmod (3; 1% instances), en-dep/discourse (2; 1% instances), en-dep/expl (2; 1% instances), en-dep/nmod:tmod (2; 1% instances), en-dep/parataxis (2; 1% instances), en-dep/ccomp (1; 0% instances), en-dep/goeswith (1; 0% instances), en-dep/mwe (1; 0% instances)
Children of AUX nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: PRON (68; 30% instances), SCONJ (34; 15% instances), PUNCT (23; 10% instances), VERB (23; 10% instances), ADV (22; 10% instances), PART (14; 6% instances), NOUN (13; 6% instances), CONJ (7; 3% instances), DET (5; 2% instances), AUX (4; 2% instances), PROPN (4; 2% instances), ADJ (3; 1% instances), INTJ (2; 1% instances), NUM (1; 0% instances), X (1; 0% instances)
AUX in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]