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ADV: adverb

Definition

Adverbs are words that typically modify verbs for such categories as time, place, direction or manner. They may also modify adjectives (as in clarament fals “clearly fake”), other adverbs (as in molt breument “very briefly”) or even nouns / pronouns (as in solament tu “only you”).

There is a closed subclass of pronominal adverbs that refer to circumstances in context, rather than naming them directly; similarly to pronouns, these can be categorized as interrogative, relative, demonstrative, etc. To conform to the UD guidelines, pronominal adverbs also get the ADV part-of-speech tag but they are differentiated by additional features (see pronominal type).

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Catalan)

There are 463 ADV lemmas (2%), 464 ADV types (1%) and 15457 ADV tokens (3%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of ADV is: 6 in number of lemmas, 7 in number of types and 10 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent ADV lemmas: no, més, també, ja, després, ahir, molt, avui, només, ara

The 10 most frequent ADV types: no, més, també, ja, després, ahir, molt, avui, només, ara

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: no (ADV 2800, PART 140, NOUN 7), més (ADV 2186, NOUN 3), també (ADV 1019, NOUN 24), després (ADV 580, NOUN 2, PROPN 1), ahir (ADV 569, NOUN 1), molt (ADV 436, DET 188, PRON 33, NOUN 4), avui (ADV 425, NOUN 5, PROPN 1), ara (ADV 388, NOUN 76, PROPN 1), fins (ADP 444, ADV 234), abans (ADV 228, NOUN 2, SCONJ 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: no (ADV 2620, PART 88, NOUN 7), més (ADV 2153, NOUN 3), també (ADV 851, NOUN 24), després (ADV 473, NOUN 1, PROPN 1), ahir (ADV 546, NOUN 1), molt (ADV 433, DET 6, NOUN 4, PRON 1), avui (ADV 405, NOUN 5, PROPN 1), ara (ADV 334, NOUN 69, PROPN 1), encara (ADV 316, VERB 1), fins (ADP 422, ADV 211, NOUN 4)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of ADV is 1.002160 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.413295).

The 1st highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “tant”: tant, tanta.

The 2nd highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “Ali”: Ali.

The 3rd highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “Antes”: Antes.

ADV occurs with 5 features: Negative (2838; 18% instances), AdpType (336; 2% instances), Gender (60; 0% instances), Number (60; 0% instances), AdvType (1; 0% instances)

ADV occurs with 7 feature-value pairs: AdpType=Prep, AdpType=Preppron, AdvType=Tim, Gender=Masc, Negative=Neg, Number=Plur, Number=Sing

ADV occurs with 6 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is _ (12282 tokens). Examples: més, també, ja, després, ahir, molt, avui, només, ara, així

Relations

ADV nodes are attached to their parents using 23 different relations: advmod (10730; 69% instances), neg (2738; 18% instances), mwe (562; 4% instances), mark (461; 3% instances), cc (301; 2% instances), conj (242; 2% instances), dobj (130; 1% instances), case (127; 1% instances), root (72; 0% instances), nsubj (19; 0% instances), name (16; 0% instances), advcl (15; 0% instances), ccomp (9; 0% instances), acl (7; 0% instances), csubj (5; 0% instances), appos (4; 0% instances), cop (4; 0% instances), dep (3; 0% instances), det (3; 0% instances), iobj (3; 0% instances), compound (2; 0% instances), nmod (2; 0% instances), xcomp (2; 0% instances)

Parents of ADV nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: VERB (8901; 58% instances), ADJ (2590; 17% instances), NOUN (2091; 14% instances), ADP (506; 3% instances), ADV (441; 3% instances), PROPN (195; 1% instances), NUM (175; 1% instances), PRON (160; 1% instances), DET (94; 1% instances), AUX (84; 1% instances), ROOT (72; 0% instances), SYM (64; 0% instances), PART (45; 0% instances), SCONJ (23; 0% instances), CONJ (14; 0% instances), PUNCT (1; 0% instances), X (1; 0% instances)

11392 (74%) ADV nodes are leaves.

2093 (14%) ADV nodes have one child.

1218 (8%) ADV nodes have two children.

754 (5%) ADV nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a ADV node is 13.

Children of ADV nodes are attached using 26 different relations: punct (1891; 25% instances), nmod (1430; 19% instances), mwe (1179; 16% instances), case (1067; 14% instances), advmod (390; 5% instances), advcl (378; 5% instances), cc (198; 3% instances), nummod (184; 2% instances), conj (145; 2% instances), dobj (100; 1% instances), det (99; 1% instances), mark (86; 1% instances), nsubj (84; 1% instances), cop (75; 1% instances), acl (53; 1% instances), appos (45; 1% instances), neg (30; 0% instances), aux (24; 0% instances), amod (21; 0% instances), name (19; 0% instances), parataxis (19; 0% instances), dep (10; 0% instances), xcomp (9; 0% instances), csubj (6; 0% instances), ccomp (5; 0% instances), compound (1; 0% instances)

Children of ADV nodes belong to 16 different parts of speech: PUNCT (1891; 25% instances), NOUN (1449; 19% instances), ADP (1351; 18% instances), SCONJ (637; 8% instances), VERB (486; 6% instances), ADV (441; 6% instances), CONJ (288; 4% instances), PROPN (248; 3% instances), NUM (234; 3% instances), DET (174; 2% instances), PRON (172; 2% instances), AUX (76; 1% instances), ADJ (57; 1% instances), SYM (42; 1% instances), INTJ (1; 0% instances), X (1; 0% instances)


ADV in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]