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auxpass: passive auxiliary

A passive auxiliary of a clause is a non-main verb of the clause which contains the passive information.


Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This relation is universal.

1605 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as auxpass.

1568 instances of auxpass (98%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.22554517133956.

The following 7 pairs of parts of speech are connected with auxpass: VERB-AUX (1550; 97% instances), VERB-VERB (24; 1% instances), ADJ-VERB (23; 1% instances), ADV-AUX (3; 0% instances), NOUN-AUX (3; 0% instances), ADJ-AUX (1; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-ESL)

This relation is universal.

495 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as auxpass.

495 instances of auxpass (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.11919191919192.

The following 3 pairs of parts of speech are connected with auxpass: VERB-AUX (490; 99% instances), ADJ-AUX (3; 1% instances), ADV-AUX (2; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-LinES)

This relation is universal.

503 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as auxpass.

501 instances of auxpass (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.20675944333996.

The following 2 pairs of parts of speech are connected with auxpass: VERB-AUX (501; 100% instances), VERB-VERB (2; 0% instances).


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