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aux: auxiliary

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An auxiliary of a clause is a non-main verb of the clause, e.g., a modal auxiliary, or a form of “estar”, “ser” or “haber” in a periphrastic tense.

Spanish modal auxiliaries include (Butt and Benjamin, 2013):

Regan ha muerto . \n Regan has died .
aux(muerto, ha)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Spanish)

This relation is universal.

4195 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as aux.

4184 instances of aux (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.41382598331347.

The following 20 pairs of parts of speech are connected with aux: es-pos/VERB-es-pos/AUX (3872; 92% instances), es-pos/NOUN-es-pos/AUX (126; 3% instances), es-pos/ADJ-es-pos/AUX (122; 3% instances), es-pos/PRON-es-pos/AUX (18; 0% instances), es-pos/VERB-es-pos/VERB (15; 0% instances), es-pos/PROPN-es-pos/AUX (11; 0% instances), es-pos/VERB-es-pos/X (7; 0% instances), es-pos/PROPN-es-pos/PROPN (4; 0% instances), es-pos/X-es-pos/AUX (4; 0% instances), es-pos/NUM-es-pos/AUX (3; 0% instances), es-pos/VERB-es-pos/SYM (3; 0% instances), es-pos/ADJ-es-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), es-pos/ADP-es-pos/AUX (1; 0% instances), es-pos/AUX-es-pos/AUX (1; 0% instances), es-pos/CONJ-es-pos/AUX (1; 0% instances), es-pos/DET-es-pos/AUX (1; 0% instances), es-pos/NOUN-es-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), es-pos/NOUN-es-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), es-pos/VERB-es-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), es-pos/X-es-pos/X (1; 0% instances).

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1	¿	¿	PUNCT	_	_	4	punct	_	_
2	Cómo	cómo	ADV	_	_	4	advmod	_	_
3	habéis	habéis	AUX	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	vivido	vivido	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	toda	todo	DET	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
6	esta	este	DET	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	expectación	expectación	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	4	dobj	_	_
8	?	?	PUNCT	_	_	4	punct	_	_

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1	Yo	yo	PRON	_	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	también	también	ADV	_	_	5	advmod	_	_
3	he	haber	AUX	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	sido	ser	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
5	víctima	víctima	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	de	de	ADP	_	_	8	case	_	_
7	esta	este	DET	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	tienda	tienda	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	5	punct	_	_

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1	No	no	ADV	_	_	3	neg	_	_
2	puedo	poder	AUX	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	estar	estar	VERB	_	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	más	más	ADV	_	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
5	contento	contento	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	con	con	ADP	_	_	8	case	_	_
7	mi	mi	DET	_	Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	det	_	_
8	estilista	estilista	NOUN	_	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	5	punct	_	_


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