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dep: dependent

A dependency is labeled as dep when a system is unable to determine a more precise dependency relation between two words. This may be because of a weird grammatical construction, a limitation in the Stanford Dependency conversion software, a parser error, or because of an unresolved long distance dependency.

Then , as if to show that he could , ...
dep(show, if)

Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This relation is universal.

11 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as dep.

8 instances of dep (73%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 3.90909090909091.

The following 8 pairs of parts of speech are connected with dep: en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/X (2; 18% instances), en-pos/PUNCT-en-pos/NOUN (2; 18% instances), en-pos/PUNCT-en-pos/PUNCT (2; 18% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/ADP (1; 9% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/NOUN (1; 9% instances), en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/NOUN (1; 9% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/ADV (1; 9% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/VERB (1; 9% instances).

# visual-style 5	bgColor:blue
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# visual-style 4 5 dep	color:blue
1	Category	category	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_
3	Science	science	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	>	>	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Astronomy	astronomy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	dep	_	_

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1	---------------------------------------------------------------------------	---------------------------------------------------------------------------	PUNCT	NFP	_	2	dep	_	_
2	-----	-----	PUNCT	NFP	_	0	root	_	_

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1	Price	price	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	3,40	3,40	NUM	CD	NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	Euros	euro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	5	5	NUM	CD	NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	Euros	euro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
8	or	or	CONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
9	7,5	7,5	NUM	CD	NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	Euros	euro	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
11	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	1	1	X	LS	_	4	dep	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	12	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	72	72	NUM	CD	NumType=Card	17	nummod	_	_
17	heures	heure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	compound	_	_
18	lenght	lenght	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_


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