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ADV: adverb

Definition

Adverbs are words that typically modify adjectives, verbs or other adverbs for such categories as time, place, direction or manner.

Note that in Danish, some adverbs may also function as verbal particles, as in se ud “look”. They are still tagged ADV and not PART.

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Danish)

There are 729 ADV lemmas (5%), 742 ADV types (4%) and 8380 ADV tokens (8%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of ADV is: 5 in number of lemmas, 5 in number of types and 5 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent ADV lemmas: ikke, der, så, også, hvor, nu, ud, op, ind, meget

The 10 most frequent ADV types: ikke, der, så, også, hvor, nu, ud, op, ind, meget

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: der (ADV 557, PRON 497, X 1), (ADV 380, SCONJ 83, ADJ 5, VERB 1), ud (ADV 196, X 1), ind (ADV 121, X 1), meget (ADV 120, ADJ 114), helt (ADV 112, NOUN 3), mere (ADV 83, ADJ 1), med (ADP 1045, ADV 82, X 3), lige (ADV 79, ADJ 4, NOUN 1), jo (ADV 78, INTJ 7, SCONJ 2)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: der (PRON 479, ADV 468, X 1), (ADV 321, SCONJ 75, VERB 28, ADJ 5), ud (ADV 190, X 1), ind (ADV 120, X 1), meget (ADV 119, ADJ 42), helt (ADV 110, NOUN 1, ADJ 1), mere (ADV 81, ADJ 54), med (ADP 1008, ADV 80, X 3), lige (ADV 76, ADJ 5, NOUN 1), jo (ADV 77, SCONJ 2, INTJ 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of ADV is 1.017833 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.355873).

The 1st highest number of forms (3) was observed with the lemma “cirka”: ca, ca., cirka.

The 2nd highest number of forms (3) was observed with the lemma “der”: der, dèr, dér.

The 3rd highest number of forms (3) was observed with the lemma “længe”: længe, længere, længst.

ADV occurs with 2 features: Degree (1610; 19% instances), PartType (534; 6% instances)

ADV occurs with 5 feature-value pairs: Degree=Abs, Degree=Cmp, Degree=Pos, Degree=Sup, PartType=Inf

ADV occurs with 6 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is _ (6236 tokens). Examples: ikke, så, også, hvor, nu, ud, op, ind, her, kun

Relations

ADV nodes are attached to their parents using 18 different relations: advmod (5493; 66% instances), neg (874; 10% instances), nmod:loc (560; 7% instances), expl (404; 5% instances), compound:prt (292; 3% instances), root (154; 2% instances), mark (136; 2% instances), nsubj (124; 1% instances), conj (103; 1% instances), amod (84; 1% instances), dobj (38; 0% instances), mwe (36; 0% instances), nmod:tmod (30; 0% instances), cc (20; 0% instances), acl:relcl (11; 0% instances), list (11; 0% instances), nsubjpass (8; 0% instances), appos (2; 0% instances)

Parents of ADV nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: VERB (5234; 62% instances), ADJ (990; 12% instances), NOUN (868; 10% instances), ADV (679; 8% instances), ROOT (154; 2% instances), CONJ (145; 2% instances), PRON (96; 1% instances), PROPN (64; 1% instances), ADP (46; 1% instances), PART (36; 0% instances), AUX (25; 0% instances), NUM (20; 0% instances), X (13; 0% instances), INTJ (9; 0% instances), SCONJ (1; 0% instances)

6314 (75%) ADV nodes are leaves.

1499 (18%) ADV nodes have one child.

307 (4%) ADV nodes have two children.

260 (3%) ADV nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a ADV node is 13.

Children of ADV nodes are attached using 29 different relations: nmod (814; 25% instances), advmod (540; 16% instances), punct (436; 13% instances), case (282; 9% instances), advcl (220; 7% instances), cop (165; 5% instances), nsubj (137; 4% instances), conj (113; 3% instances), mark (109; 3% instances), cc (100; 3% instances), mwe (71; 2% instances), nmod:tmod (52; 2% instances), compound:prt (44; 1% instances), neg (43; 1% instances), acl:relcl (38; 1% instances), amod (30; 1% instances), aux (30; 1% instances), list (22; 1% instances), discourse (17; 1% instances), nummod (11; 0% instances), dobj (10; 0% instances), expl (7; 0% instances), vocative (3; 0% instances), auxpass (2; 0% instances), appos (1; 0% instances), dep (1; 0% instances), nmod:loc (1; 0% instances), nmod:poss (1; 0% instances), nsubjpass (1; 0% instances)

Children of ADV nodes belong to 16 different parts of speech: NOUN (755; 23% instances), ADV (679; 21% instances), PUNCT (436; 13% instances), ADP (410; 12% instances), VERB (284; 9% instances), AUX (197; 6% instances), PRON (146; 4% instances), CONJ (106; 3% instances), PROPN (106; 3% instances), ADJ (73; 2% instances), SCONJ (59; 2% instances), NUM (20; 1% instances), PART (9; 0% instances), SYM (8; 0% instances), X (8; 0% instances), INTJ (5; 0% instances)


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