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neg: negation modifier

The negation modifier is the relation between a negation word and the word it modifies. It is used both for predicate negation (canonically, not) and nominal negation (canonically no). Dependents labeled neg in the current treebank are the following (in various lowercase/uppercase forms): n, n’t, neither, never, no, non, not, nt, t.


Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This relation is universal.

2588 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as neg.

2517 instances of neg (97%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.36051004636785.

The following 27 pairs of parts of speech are connected with neg: VERB-PART (1440; 56% instances), NOUN-DET (304; 12% instances), ADJ-PART (218; 8% instances), VERB-ADV (187; 7% instances), NOUN-PART (143; 6% instances), ADV-ADV (73; 3% instances), ADV-PART (58; 2% instances), ADJ-ADV (50; 2% instances), NOUN-ADV (38; 1% instances), PRON-PART (14; 1% instances), AUX-PART (12; 0% instances), PROPN-PART (9; 0% instances), PROPN-ADV (8; 0% instances), PRON-ADV (6; 0% instances), DET-ADV (5; 0% instances), DET-PART (4; 0% instances), ADJ-DET (3; 0% instances), PROPN-DET (3; 0% instances), ADJ-CONJ (2; 0% instances), NOUN-CONJ (2; 0% instances), NUM-ADV (2; 0% instances), NUM-DET (2; 0% instances), ADJ-X (1; 0% instances), CONJ-PART (1; 0% instances), INTJ-INTJ (1; 0% instances), NUM-PART (1; 0% instances), VERB-CONJ (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-ESL)

This relation is universal.

1173 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as neg.

1120 instances of neg (95%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.34697357203751.

The following 21 pairs of parts of speech are connected with neg: VERB-PART (630; 54% instances), ADJ-PART (164; 14% instances), VERB-ADV (108; 9% instances), NOUN-PART (86; 7% instances), NOUN-DET (81; 7% instances), ADV-PART (28; 2% instances), ADV-ADV (15; 1% instances), ADJ-ADV (14; 1% instances), NOUN-ADV (10; 1% instances), PROPN-PART (10; 1% instances), PRON-PART (9; 1% instances), AUX-PART (5; 0% instances), ADV-DET (2; 0% instances), DET-PART (2; 0% instances), NUM-PART (2; 0% instances), PROPN-ADV (2; 0% instances), ADP-PART (1; 0% instances), NUM-ADV (1; 0% instances), NUM-DET (1; 0% instances), PRON-ADV (1; 0% instances), VERB-DET (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-LinES)

This relation is universal.

794 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as neg.

738 instances of neg (93%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.43073047858942.

The following 24 pairs of parts of speech are connected with neg: VERB-PART (455; 57% instances), NOUN-DET (79; 10% instances), ADJ-PART (70; 9% instances), NOUN-PART (53; 7% instances), VERB-ADV (51; 6% instances), ADV-PART (25; 3% instances), ADV-ADV (12; 2% instances), AUX-PART (10; 1% instances), PRON-PART (8; 1% instances), VERB-DET (5; 1% instances), ADJ-ADV (4; 1% instances), ADV-DET (3; 0% instances), AUX-ADV (3; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (3; 0% instances), PROPN-PART (3; 0% instances), VERB-PRON (2; 0% instances), ADJ-DET (1; 0% instances), CONJ-PART (1; 0% instances), DET-PART (1; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (1; 0% instances), PART-PART (1; 0% instances), PRON-DET (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-PART (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-PART (1; 0% instances).


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