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foreign: foreign words

We use foreign to label sequences of foreign words. These are given a linear analysis: the head is the first token in the foreign phrase.


Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This relation is universal.

16 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as foreign.

14 instances of foreign (88%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 2.875.

The following 1 pairs of parts of speech are connected with foreign: X-X (16; 100% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-ESL)

This relation is universal.

4 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as foreign.

4 instances of foreign (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 1.75.

The following 2 pairs of parts of speech are connected with foreign: X-X (3; 75% instances), NOUN-NOUN (1; 25% instances).


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