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VERB: verb

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for VERB.


Treebank Statistics (UD_German)

There are 2687 VERB lemmas (6%), 5033 VERB types (9%) and 25041 VERB tokens (8%). Out of 15 observed tags, the rank of VERB is: 4 in number of lemmas, 4 in number of types and 6 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent VERB lemmas: sein, haben, werden, geben, kommen, liegen, finden, gehen, machen, gehören

The 10 most frequent VERB types: ist, war, sind, waren, wurde, gibt, hat, kam, liegt, hatte

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: sein (VERB 4258, DET 1264, AUX 817, PRON 153, PROPN 14, NOUN 7), haben (AUX 1031, VERB 484, PROPN 1, CONJ 1), werden (AUX 3316, VERB 385, X 9, PROPN 2, PUNCT 1, NOUN 1), geben (VERB 373, PROPN 2, ADJ 1, NOUN 1), kommen (VERB 366, NOUN 2, ADJ 1, PROPN 1), liegen (VERB 245, ADJ 1, NOUN 1), finden (VERB 243, NOUN 1), machen (VERB 212, PROPN 1), gehören (VERB 211, NOUN 2), stehen (VERB 197, NOUN 1, ADV 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: ist (VERB 1863, AUX 270, PROPN 5), war (VERB 1170, AUX 169, PROPN 1), sind (VERB 641, AUX 157, PROPN 2), waren (VERB 257, AUX 57), wurde (AUX 1311, VERB 246, X 5, PUNCT 1), hat (AUX 320, VERB 162), hatte (AUX 194, VERB 145, CONJ 1), sein (DET 142, VERB 100, AUX 48, PRON 25), haben (AUX 198, VERB 95), gehört (VERB 84, NOUN 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of VERB is 1.873093 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.186521).

The 1st highest number of forms (14) was observed with the lemma “sein”: bin, bist, gewesen, ist, sei, seid, seien, sein, sind, war, waren, wart, wäre, wären.

The 2nd highest number of forms (10) was observed with the lemma “haben”: Hast, gehabt, hab, habe, haben, hat, hatte, hatten, hätte, hätten.

The 3rd highest number of forms (10) was observed with the lemma “lassen”: Laß, gelassen, lasse, lassen, laßt, liess, ließ, ließen, lässt, läßt.

VERB occurs with 7 features: de-feat/VerbForm (24415; 98% instances), de-feat/Person (14525; 58% instances), de-feat/Number (13291; 53% instances), de-feat/Mood (4866; 19% instances), de-feat/Tense (4866; 19% instances), de-feat/Case (5; 0% instances), de-feat/Gender (4; 0% instances)

VERB occurs with 16 feature-value pairs: Case=Acc, Case=Gen, Gender=Masc, Gender=Masc,Neut, Mood=Ind, Mood=Sub, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, Person=1, Person=2, Person=3, Tense=Past, Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Fin, VerbForm=Inf, VerbForm=Part

VERB occurs with 38 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Number=Sing|Person=3|VerbForm=Fin (6767 tokens). Examples: gibt, kam, liegt, erhielt, befindet, gab, ging, sagte, sei, führte

Relations

VERB nodes are attached to their parents using 22 different relations: de-dep/root (11658; 47% instances), de-dep/cop (4698; 19% instances), de-dep/conj (2761; 11% instances), de-dep/acl (2488; 10% instances), de-dep/advcl (1322; 5% instances), de-dep/ccomp (707; 3% instances), de-dep/xcomp (689; 3% instances), de-dep/parataxis (409; 2% instances), de-dep/csubj (182; 1% instances), de-dep/csubjpass (39; 0% instances), de-dep/dep (30; 0% instances), de-dep/appos (29; 0% instances), de-dep/dobj (7; 0% instances), de-dep/nsubj (7; 0% instances), de-dep/amod (4; 0% instances), de-dep/auxpass (4; 0% instances), de-dep/aux (2; 0% instances), de-dep/advmod (1; 0% instances), de-dep/cc (1; 0% instances), de-dep/det (1; 0% instances), de-dep/mark (1; 0% instances), de-dep/nsubjpass (1; 0% instances)

Parents of VERB nodes belong to 13 different parts of speech: ROOT (11658; 47% instances), VERB (5224; 21% instances), NOUN (4385; 18% instances), ADJ (2781; 11% instances), PROPN (611; 2% instances), PRON (210; 1% instances), ADP (60; 0% instances), ADV (51; 0% instances), NUM (29; 0% instances), AUX (13; 0% instances), X (10; 0% instances), CONJ (5; 0% instances), PART (4; 0% instances)

4516 (18%) VERB nodes are leaves.

1277 (5%) VERB nodes have one child.

1625 (6%) VERB nodes have two children.

17623 (70%) VERB nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a VERB node is 19.

Children of VERB nodes are attached using 32 different relations: de-dep/punct (17704; 19% instances), de-dep/nmod (17619; 19% instances), de-dep/nsubj (13236; 14% instances), de-dep/advmod (8886; 10% instances), de-dep/dobj (8621; 9% instances), de-dep/auxpass (3495; 4% instances), de-dep/aux (3369; 4% instances), de-dep/nsubjpass (3088; 3% instances), de-dep/mark (2956; 3% instances), de-dep/conj (2833; 3% instances), de-dep/cc (2418; 3% instances), de-dep/compound:prt (1524; 2% instances), de-dep/iobj (1238; 1% instances), de-dep/advcl (1211; 1% instances), de-dep/xcomp (978; 1% instances), de-dep/neg (827; 1% instances), de-dep/ccomp (737; 1% instances), de-dep/dep (407; 0% instances), de-dep/parataxis (369; 0% instances), de-dep/expl (359; 0% instances), de-dep/case (326; 0% instances), de-dep/acl (235; 0% instances), de-dep/appos (175; 0% instances), de-dep/csubj (100; 0% instances), de-dep/amod (89; 0% instances), de-dep/det (71; 0% instances), de-dep/csubjpass (45; 0% instances), de-dep/cop (22; 0% instances), de-dep/mwe (8; 0% instances), de-dep/compound (5; 0% instances), de-dep/name (5; 0% instances), de-dep/det:poss (1; 0% instances)

Children of VERB nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: NOUN (27239; 29% instances), PUNCT (17713; 19% instances), PRON (10121; 11% instances), ADV (8119; 9% instances), AUX (6850; 7% instances), PROPN (6159; 7% instances), VERB (5224; 6% instances), CONJ (2435; 3% instances), ADJ (2402; 3% instances), PART (1763; 2% instances), ADP (1662; 2% instances), SCONJ (1559; 2% instances), NUM (1558; 2% instances), DET (96; 0% instances), X (57; 0% instances)


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