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neg: negation modifier

The negation modifier is the relation between the negation word ne and the word it modifies.

Negation in Czech is most of the time expressed using a bound morpheme (the prefix ne-). Occurrences of the morpheme as a separate word are rare in comparison to other languages, yet they exist.

Note that the negative determiners (pronouns) are attached as det, not neg:


Treebank Statistics (UD_Czech)

This relation is universal.

353 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as neg.

350 instances of neg (99%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.79036827195467.

The following 9 pairs of parts of speech are connected with neg: NOUN-PART (140; 40% instances), ADV-PART (76; 22% instances), ADJ-PART (66; 19% instances), PRON-PART (37; 10% instances), VERB-PART (16; 5% instances), NUM-PART (7; 2% instances), PROPN-PART (7; 2% instances), CONJ-PART (3; 1% instances), DET-PART (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Czech-CAC)

This relation is universal.

86 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as neg.

85 instances of neg (99%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.52325581395349.

The following 8 pairs of parts of speech are connected with neg: ADV-PART (26; 30% instances), NOUN-PART (22; 26% instances), ADJ-PART (20; 23% instances), PRON-PART (10; 12% instances), VERB-PART (4; 5% instances), NUM-PART (2; 2% instances), CONJ-PART (1; 1% instances), SCONJ-PART (1; 1% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Czech-CLTT)

This relation is universal.

1 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as neg.

1 instances of neg (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.

The following 1 pairs of parts of speech are connected with neg: ADJ-PART (1; 100% instances).


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