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punct: punctuation

This is used for any piece of punctuation in a clause, if punctuation is being retained in the typed dependencies. By default, punctuation is not retained in the output.


Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This relation is universal.

28927 nodes (12%) are attached to their parents as punct.

22704 instances of punct (78%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 8.09963010336364.

The following 30 pairs of parts of speech are connected with punct: VERB-PUNCT (14781; 51% instances), NOUN-PUNCT (6845; 24% instances), ADJ-PUNCT (2882; 10% instances), PROPN-PUNCT (2617; 9% instances), NUM-PUNCT (385; 1% instances), ADV-PUNCT (376; 1% instances), X-PUNCT (331; 1% instances), PRON-PUNCT (229; 1% instances), INTJ-PUNCT (145; 1% instances), SYM-PUNCT (63; 0% instances), PART-PUNCT (56; 0% instances), DET-PUNCT (54; 0% instances), CONJ-PUNCT (34; 0% instances), AUX-PUNCT (23; 0% instances), NOUN-SYM (17; 0% instances), X-SYM (17; 0% instances), PROPN-SYM (12; 0% instances), ADP-PUNCT (11; 0% instances), VERB-SYM (10; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (9; 0% instances), PUNCT-PUNCT (8; 0% instances), NUM-SYM (5; 0% instances), SYM-SYM (4; 0% instances), SCONJ-PUNCT (3; 0% instances), X-NOUN (3; 0% instances), X-X (3; 0% instances), ADJ-SYM (1; 0% instances), ADP-SYM (1; 0% instances), CONJ-SYM (1; 0% instances), DET-SYM (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-ESL)

This relation is universal.

9583 nodes (10%) are attached to their parents as punct.

7662 instances of punct (80%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 9.49984347281645.

The following 18 pairs of parts of speech are connected with punct: VERB-PUNCT (6244; 65% instances), NOUN-PUNCT (1590; 17% instances), ADJ-PUNCT (1283; 13% instances), PROPN-PUNCT (233; 2% instances), ADV-PUNCT (76; 1% instances), NUM-PUNCT (52; 1% instances), PRON-PUNCT (46; 0% instances), DET-PUNCT (11; 0% instances), INTJ-PUNCT (11; 0% instances), SYM-PUNCT (10; 0% instances), X-PUNCT (10; 0% instances), AUX-PUNCT (9; 0% instances), ADP-PUNCT (2; 0% instances), CONJ-PUNCT (2; 0% instances), NOUN-SYM (1; 0% instances), NUM-SYM (1; 0% instances), PART-PUNCT (1; 0% instances), VERB-SYM (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-LinES)

This relation is universal.

10025 nodes (12%) are attached to their parents as punct.

8828 instances of punct (88%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 8.71431421446384.

The following 17 pairs of parts of speech are connected with punct: VERB-PUNCT (6389; 64% instances), NOUN-PUNCT (1629; 16% instances), ADJ-PUNCT (667; 7% instances), ADV-PUNCT (376; 4% instances), AUX-PUNCT (221; 2% instances), PROPN-PUNCT (212; 2% instances), PRON-PUNCT (206; 2% instances), INTJ-PUNCT (95; 1% instances), ADP-PUNCT (62; 1% instances), NUM-PUNCT (59; 1% instances), X-PUNCT (39; 0% instances), CONJ-PUNCT (31; 0% instances), PUNCT-PUNCT (15; 0% instances), SCONJ-PUNCT (10; 0% instances), DET-PUNCT (6; 0% instances), PART-PUNCT (4; 0% instances), SYM-PUNCT (4; 0% instances).


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