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compound:prt: phrasal verb particle

The phrasal verb particle relation identifies an idiomatic phrasal verb, and holds between the verb and its particle (tagged as ADP). It is a subtype of the compound relation.

This relation excludes literal/directional uses of prepositions/particles, such as up, down, in, out, etc. These would typically become an ADV with the relation advmod:


Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This relation is a language-specific subtype of compound.

900 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as compound:prt.

900 instances of compound:prt (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 1.33111111111111.

The following 6 pairs of parts of speech are connected with compound:prt: VERB-ADP (878; 98% instances), VERB-ADV (17; 2% instances), ADJ-ADP (2; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (1; 0% instances), ADV-ADJ (1; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-ESL)

This relation is a language-specific subtype of compound.

196 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as compound:prt.

196 instances of compound:prt (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 1.51020408163265.

The following 6 pairs of parts of speech are connected with compound:prt: VERB-ADP (170; 87% instances), VERB-ADV (20; 10% instances), VERB-PART (3; 2% instances), ADJ-ADV (1; 1% instances), ADP-ADP (1; 1% instances), NOUN-ADP (1; 1% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-LinES)

This relation is a language-specific subtype of compound.

358 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as compound:prt.

356 instances of compound:prt (99%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 1.17877094972067.

The following 7 pairs of parts of speech are connected with compound:prt: VERB-ADV (334; 93% instances), VERB-NOUN (10; 3% instances), VERB-ADP (8; 2% instances), VERB-ADJ (3; 1% instances), NOUN-ADJ (1; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-ADV (1; 0% instances).


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