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list: list

The list relation is used for chains of comparable items. Web text often contains passages which are meant to be interpreted as lists but are parsed as single sentences. Email signatures in particular contain these structures, in the form of contact information: the different contact information items are labeled as list; the key-value pair relations are labeled as appos.

In lists with more than two items, all items of the list shoud modify the first one.

Steve Jones Phone: 555-9814 Email: jones@abc.edf
name(Steve-1, Jones-2)
list(Steve-1, Phone:-3)
list(Steve-1, Email:-5)
appos(Phone:-3, 555-9814-4)
appos(Email:-5, jones@abc.edf-6)

In an itemized or numbered list, we have been taking the item marker as a dependent of the head of the contentful list item. This appears to be better than the alternative.


Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This relation is universal.

793 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as list.

789 instances of list (99%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 7.10088272383354.

The following 28 pairs of parts of speech are connected with list: en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/NOUN (215; 27% instances), en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/PROPN (177; 22% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/NOUN (106; 13% instances), en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/NUM (99; 12% instances), en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/X (72; 9% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/PROPN (15; 2% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/ADJ (14; 2% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/SYM (14; 2% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/NUM (13; 2% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/NOUN (10; 1% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/VERB (9; 1% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/VERB (6; 1% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/ADJ (5; 1% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/X (5; 1% instances), en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/ADJ (5; 1% instances), en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/SYM (5; 1% instances), en-pos/X-en-pos/X (4; 1% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/ADJ (3; 0% instances), en-pos/X-en-pos/PROPN (3; 0% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/PROPN (2; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/X (2; 0% instances), en-pos/X-en-pos/NUM (2; 0% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/PUNCT (1; 0% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/X (1; 0% instances), en-pos/ADV-en-pos/X (1; 0% instances), en-pos/NUM-en-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances).

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# visual-style 2 3 list	color:blue
1	Vladi	Vladi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	name	_	_
2	Pimenov	Pimenov	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	ext.	ext.	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	list	_	_
4	37625	37625	NUM	CD	NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_

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# visual-style 1	bgColor:blue
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1	WASHINGTON	WASHINGTON	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	Reuters	Reuters	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	3	punct	_	_
5	-	-	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	_

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1	Analyst	analyst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	Team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	1	1	NUM	CD	NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
5	Coach	coach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	_
7	Lisa	Lisa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	name	_	_
8	Gilette	Gilette	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-ESL)

This relation is universal.

20 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as list.

20 instances of list (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 3.85.

The following 7 pairs of parts of speech are connected with list: en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/NOUN (9; 45% instances), en-pos/VERB-en-pos/VERB (4; 20% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/VERB (2; 10% instances), en-pos/PROPN-en-pos/PROPN (2; 10% instances), en-pos/ADJ-en-pos/ADJ (1; 5% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/PRON (1; 5% instances), en-pos/NOUN-en-pos/X (1; 5% instances).

# visual-style 14	bgColor:blue
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# visual-style 12	bgColor:blue
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1	_	_	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	5	nmod	_	_
3	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	4	compound	_	_
4	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	5	nsubj	_	_
5	_	_	VERB	VB	_	0	root	_	_
6	_	_	PRON	NN	_	5	dobj	_	_
7	_	_	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	_	_	VERB	VB	_	6	acl	_	_
9	_	_	PROPN	NNP	_	8	dobj	_	_
10	_	_	ADJ	JJ	_	12	case	_	_
11	_	_	ADP	IN	_	10	mwe	_	_
12	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	6	nmod	_	_
13	_	_	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	12	list	_	_
15	_	_	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
16	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	12	list	_	_
17	_	_	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
18	_	_	ADV	RB	_	17	mwe	_	_
19	_	_	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_

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1	_	_	PRON	PRP	_	2	nsubj	_	_
2	_	_	VERB	VBD	_	0	root	_	_
3	_	_	VERB	VBG	_	2	xcomp	_	_
4	_	_	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	_	_	DET	DT	_	7	det	_	_
6	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	7	compound	_	_
7	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	3	dobj	_	_
8	_	_	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	_	_	VERB	VBG	_	3	list	_	_
10	_	_	DET	DT	_	12	det	_	_
11	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	12	compound	_	_
12	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	9	dobj	_	_
13	_	_	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	_	_	DET	DT	_	15	det	_	_
15	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	9	nmod	_	_
16	_	_	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
17	_	_	VERB	VB	_	3	list	_	_
18	_	_	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	_	_	PROPN	NNP	_	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	_	_	PART	POS	_	19	case	_	_
21	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	17	dobj	_	_
22	_	_	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_

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# visual-style 8	bgColor:blue
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# visual-style 8 10 list	color:blue
1	_	_	DET	DT	_	2	det	_	_
2	_	_	NOUN	NN	_	4	nsubjpass	_	_
3	_	_	AUX	VBZ	_	4	auxpass	_	_
4	_	_	VERB	VBN	_	0	root	_	_
5	_	_	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	_	_	PROPN	NNP	_	8	compound	_	_
7	_	_	PROPN	NNP	_	8	compound	_	_
8	_	_	PROPN	NNP	_	4	nmod	_	_
9	_	_	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
10	_	_	PROPN	NNP	_	8	list	_	_
11	_	_	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	_	_	PROPN	NNP	_	4	nmod	_	_


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