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acl: clausal modifier of noun

acl stands for finite and non-finite clauses that modify a nominal. The acl relation contrasts with the advcl relation, which is used for adverbial clauses that modify a predicate. The head of the acl relation is the noun that is modified, and the dependent is the head of the clause that modifies the noun.

This relation is also used for optional depictives. The adjective is taken to modify the nominal of which it provides a secondary predication. See xcomp for further discussion of resultatives and depictives.

Czech also allows finite clausal complements for nouns with a subset of nouns like fact or report. These look roughly like relative clauses, but do not have any omitted role in the dependent clause. These are also analyzed as acl.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Czech)

This relation is universal.

22835 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as acl.

22690 instances of acl (99%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 5.72599080359098.

The following 39 pairs of parts of speech are connected with acl: NOUN-VERB (16189; 71% instances), PRON-VERB (2941; 13% instances), PROPN-VERB (1540; 7% instances), NOUN-ADJ (741; 3% instances), NOUN-NOUN (532; 2% instances), PRON-ADJ (187; 1% instances), ADJ-VERB (143; 1% instances), NOUN-PRON (102; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (88; 0% instances), DET-VERB (84; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (78; 0% instances), NUM-VERB (43; 0% instances), PROPN-ADJ (26; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (24; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (24; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (19; 0% instances), ADV-VERB (11; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (10; 0% instances), NOUN-DET (9; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (7; 0% instances), PRON-ADV (5; 0% instances), DET-ADJ (3; 0% instances), NOUN-PROPN (3; 0% instances), PRON-PART (3; 0% instances), ADP-VERB (2; 0% instances), DET-NOUN (2; 0% instances), NOUN-PART (2; 0% instances), NUM-ADJ (2; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (2; 0% instances), PRON-NUM (2; 0% instances), PROPN-NUM (2; 0% instances), VERB-NOUN (2; 0% instances), ADJ-NOUN (1; 0% instances), CONJ-ADJ (1; 0% instances), CONJ-VERB (1; 0% instances), DET-ADV (1; 0% instances), PART-VERB (1; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (1; 0% instances), PROPN-PROPN (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Czech-CAC)

This relation is universal.

7360 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as acl.

7321 instances of acl (99%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 5.73057065217391.

The following 37 pairs of parts of speech are connected with acl: NOUN-VERB (5423; 74% instances), PRON-VERB (900; 12% instances), NOUN-ADJ (297; 4% instances), NOUN-NOUN (213; 3% instances), PROPN-VERB (150; 2% instances), PRON-ADJ (72; 1% instances), ADJ-VERB (53; 1% instances), NOUN-ADV (35; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (34; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (34; 0% instances), DET-VERB (28; 0% instances), SYM-VERB (22; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (22; 0% instances), NUM-VERB (10; 0% instances), NOUN-SYM (8; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (7; 0% instances), SCONJ-VERB (7; 0% instances), ADV-VERB (4; 0% instances), NOUN-PART (4; 0% instances), PRON-ADV (4; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (4; 0% instances), PROPN-ADJ (4; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (4; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (3; 0% instances), NOUN-DET (3; 0% instances), VERB-ADJ (3; 0% instances), SYM-NOUN (2; 0% instances), ADJ-ADV (1; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (1; 0% instances), DET-ADV (1; 0% instances), DET-NOUN (1; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (1; 0% instances), PRON-DET (1; 0% instances), PRON-NUM (1; 0% instances), PRON-PART (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-VERB (1; 0% instances), SYM-ADJ (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Czech-CLTT)

This relation is universal.

635 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as acl.

635 instances of acl (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 5.70393700787402.

The following 11 pairs of parts of speech are connected with acl: NOUN-VERB (506; 80% instances), NOUN-NOUN (63; 10% instances), NOUN-ADJ (39; 6% instances), PRON-VERB (16; 3% instances), NOUN-PRON (4; 1% instances), NOUN-ADV (2; 0% instances), NOUN-DET (1; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (1; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (1; 0% instances), VERB-ADJ (1; 0% instances), X-VERB (1; 0% instances).


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