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nsubjpass: passive nominal subject

A passive nominal subject is a noun phrase which is the syntactic subject of a passive clause.


Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This relation is universal.

1369 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as nsubjpass.

1332 instances of nsubjpass (97%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 3.85098612125639.

The following 11 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nsubjpass: VERB-NOUN (680; 50% instances), VERB-PRON (527; 38% instances), VERB-PROPN (107; 8% instances), VERB-DET (12; 1% instances), ADJ-NOUN (11; 1% instances), VERB-ADJ (9; 1% instances), ADJ-PRON (8; 1% instances), VERB-SYM (5; 0% instances), VERB-NUM (4; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (3; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (3; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-ESL)

This relation is universal.

415 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as nsubjpass.

412 instances of nsubjpass (99%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 3.13012048192771.

The following 11 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nsubjpass: VERB-NOUN (192; 46% instances), VERB-PRON (166; 40% instances), VERB-DET (32; 8% instances), VERB-PROPN (11; 3% instances), ADJ-NOUN (4; 1% instances), ADJ-PRON (3; 1% instances), VERB-ADJ (3; 1% instances), ADV-DET (1; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (1; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (1; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-LinES)

This relation is universal.

518 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as nsubjpass.

515 instances of nsubjpass (99%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 3.84942084942085.

The following 6 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nsubjpass: VERB-NOUN (333; 64% instances), VERB-PRON (146; 28% instances), VERB-PROPN (33; 6% instances), VERB-NUM (3; 1% instances), VERB-ADJ (2; 0% instances), AUX-PRON (1; 0% instances).


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