VERB

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`VERB`: verb

Definition

A verb is a member of the syntactic class of words that typically signal events and actions, can constitute a minimal predicate in a clause, and govern the number and types of other constituents which may occur in the clause.

The tag VERB is reserved for full lexical verbs, while auxiliary verbs are tagged AUX.

Examples

at vise “to show”, jeg viser “I show”, han viste “he showed”
at flyve “to fly”, vi flyver “we fly”, de fløj “they flew”

Treebank Statistics (UD_Danish)

There are 1553 VERB lemmas (11%), 3213 VERB types (17%) and 10711 VERB tokens (11%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of VERB is: 4 in number of lemmas, 2 in number of types and 4 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent VERB lemmas: være, have, få, sige, gå, komme, se, gøre, tage, give

The 10 most frequent VERB types: er, har, siger, var, få, får, fik, sagde, kommer, se

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: være (AUX 2044, VERB 589), have (AUX 868, VERB 393, NOUN 5, X 1), få (VERB 386, ADJ 32), gå (VERB 235, X 1), stå (VERB 94, NOUN 2), ske (VERB 65, NOUN 1), sætte (VERB 62, X 1), tro (VERB 62, NOUN 4, ADJ 1), blive (AUX 450, VERB 56), tale (VERB 47, NOUN 30)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: er (AUX 1354, VERB 360), har (AUX 677, VERB 230, X 1), var (AUX 399, VERB 129), få (VERB 123, ADJ 23), får (VERB 99, NOUN 1), gå (VERB 73, X 1), går (VERB 65, NOUN 54), havde (AUX 133, VERB 62), have (VERB 58, AUX 53, NOUN 3, X 1), være (AUX 178, VERB 53)

er
- AUX 1354: - Hvad er det , du siger ?
- VERB 360: Jeg ved ikke , om jeg er ved at kede mig , eller om jeg bare er doven .
har
- AUX 677: ” Han skulle ha’ en lærestreg for alle de rædsler , han har begået .
- VERB 230: Kyllingerne her har meget mere plads .
- X 1: Som leder af Filmskolen i Danmark har har således været med til at udvirke , at instruktøren Gert Fredholm netop nu er på vej til Zimbabwe for at opbygge en filmuddannelse .
var
- AUX 399: H.L. Hansen var en udsædvanlig og frodig personlighed .
- VERB 129: Men det lod sig ikke vurdere , hvor repræsentativ denne stemning var .
få
- VERB 123: Den lille mand på gaden sagde det også : Vi skulle få det til at glide
- ADJ 23: Ubehaget varer oftest kun nogle få dage .
får
- VERB 99: og synet af en journalistblok får flokken til at spredes på et øjeblik .
- NOUN 1: Her bor jeg alene med seks får , 20 høns og en tysk ruhårshund .
gå
- VERB 73: ” Denne tredeling må vi nødvendigvis gå i gang med .
- X 1: Hvis en statsminister er maniodepressiv ( det var Viggo Kampmann ) , har det historisk relevans , fordi man gå ud fra , at en mand , der lider af en alvorlig sindssygdom , ikke i alle situationer er forretningsduelig .
går
- VERB 65: Han ser sig om i hendes hyggelige stue og går så mod udgangsdøren .
- NOUN 54: I går omstødte Odense kommune kort og godt beslutningen .
havde
- AUX 133: Og tyskerne havde fået det chok , de aldrig overvandt .
- VERB 62: Men Karin havde andre tanker .
have
- VERB 58: Alene i Hamburg skulle de have has på 750 ton ophobet skrald .
- AUX 53: Hun må have handlet af kærlighed til dig .
- NOUN 3: Men hun indrømmer , at hun i samme øjeblik som ulykken skete , havde sin opmærksomhed rettet mod en have på hendes venstre side .
- X 1: And some day we shall have our revenge .
være
- AUX 178: Hvem der skal spille op til dans , skal helst være en overraskelse .
- VERB 53: ” Det er at være under konstant pres .

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of VERB is 2.068899 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.355873).

The 1st highest number of forms (9) was observed with the lemma “give”: Gi, Giv, gav, gi’r, gir, give, giver, gives, givet.

The 2nd highest number of forms (9) was observed with the lemma “tage”: Ta, ta’, tag, tage, tager, tages, taget, tar’, tog.

The 3rd highest number of forms (8) was observed with the lemma “rejse”: REJS, Rejs, rejse, rejsende, rejser, rejses, rejst, rejste.

VERB occurs with 8 features: da-feat/VerbForm (10711; 100% instances), da-feat/Voice (8289; 77% instances), da-feat/Tense (7852; 73% instances), da-feat/Mood (5782; 54% instances), da-feat/Number (2012; 19% instances), da-feat/Definite (1867; 17% instances), da-feat/Gender (20; 0% instances), da-feat/Case (1; 0% instances)

VERB occurs with 18 feature-value pairs: Case=Gen, Definite=Def, Definite=Ind, Gender=Com, Mood=Imp, Mood=Ind, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, Tense=Past, Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Fin, VerbForm=Ger, VerbForm=Inf, VerbForm=Part, VerbForm=Part,Trans, VerbForm=Trans, Voice=Act, Voice=Pass

VERB occurs with 18 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act (3425 tokens). Examples: er, har, siger, får, kommer, går, ved, gør, mener, giver

Relations

VERB nodes are attached to their parents using 22 different relations: da-dep/root (3938; 37% instances), da-dep/acl:relcl (1678; 16% instances), da-dep/conj (1330; 12% instances), da-dep/advcl (1089; 10% instances), da-dep/xcomp (605; 6% instances), da-dep/ccomp (551; 5% instances), da-dep/advmod (461; 4% instances), da-dep/dobj (447; 4% instances), da-dep/amod (444; 4% instances), da-dep/mark (36; 0% instances), da-dep/case (34; 0% instances), da-dep/list (26; 0% instances), da-dep/nmod (22; 0% instances), da-dep/nsubj (22; 0% instances), da-dep/mwe (9; 0% instances), da-dep/nmod:poss (7; 0% instances), da-dep/nmod:loc (4; 0% instances), da-dep/appos (3; 0% instances), da-dep/nsubjpass (2; 0% instances), da-dep/dep (1; 0% instances), da-dep/parataxis (1; 0% instances), da-dep/reparandum (1; 0% instances)

Parents of VERB nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: ROOT (3938; 37% instances), VERB (3633; 34% instances), NOUN (1695; 16% instances), PRON (465; 4% instances), ADJ (341; 3% instances), ADV (284; 3% instances), PROPN (157; 1% instances), CONJ (97; 1% instances), INTJ (35; 0% instances), NUM (21; 0% instances), ADP (13; 0% instances), X (12; 0% instances), AUX (8; 0% instances), PART (7; 0% instances), DET (5; 0% instances)

692 (6%) VERB nodes are leaves.

697 (7%) VERB nodes have one child.

1048 (10%) VERB nodes have two children.

8274 (77%) VERB nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a VERB node is 22.

Children of VERB nodes are attached using 34 different relations: da-dep/punct (8507; 20% instances), da-dep/nsubj (6743; 15% instances), da-dep/dobj (4949; 11% instances), da-dep/nmod (4748; 11% instances), da-dep/mark (3954; 9% instances), da-dep/advmod (3787; 9% instances), da-dep/aux (2320; 5% instances), da-dep/cc (1219; 3% instances), da-dep/conj (1146; 3% instances), da-dep/nsubjpass (647; 1% instances), da-dep/neg (626; 1% instances), da-dep/nmod:loc (596; 1% instances), da-dep/xcomp (594; 1% instances), da-dep/ccomp (586; 1% instances), da-dep/auxpass (573; 1% instances), da-dep/advcl (551; 1% instances), da-dep/amod (515; 1% instances), da-dep/expl (429; 1% instances), da-dep/compound:prt (284; 1% instances), da-dep/discourse (282; 1% instances), da-dep/iobj (154; 0% instances), da-dep/nummod (85; 0% instances), da-dep/dep (72; 0% instances), da-dep/acl:relcl (66; 0% instances), da-dep/nmod:tmod (65; 0% instances), da-dep/vocative (19; 0% instances), da-dep/mwe (7; 0% instances), da-dep/list (2; 0% instances), da-dep/name (2; 0% instances), da-dep/appos (1; 0% instances), da-dep/case (1; 0% instances), da-dep/cop (1; 0% instances), da-dep/nmod:poss (1; 0% instances), da-dep/reparandum (1; 0% instances)

Children of VERB nodes belong to 16 different parts of speech: NOUN (9841; 23% instances), PUNCT (8503; 20% instances), PRON (5308; 12% instances), ADV (5234; 12% instances), VERB (3633; 8% instances), AUX (2894; 7% instances), PROPN (1492; 3% instances), CONJ (1474; 3% instances), SCONJ (1450; 3% instances), ADP (1414; 3% instances), PART (1142; 3% instances), ADJ (902; 2% instances), NUM (116; 0% instances), X (94; 0% instances), INTJ (29; 0% instances), SYM (7; 0% instances)