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ADV: adverb

The English ADV covers all uses of PTB tags RB, RBR, RBS, and WRB except the clausal negation not and reduced forms of it, which become PART.


Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

There are 794 ADV lemmas (4%), 794 ADV types (4%) and 12873 ADV tokens (5%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of ADV is: 6 in number of lemmas, 6 in number of types and 9 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent ADV lemmas: so, just, very, when, also, how, now, even, there, then

The 10 most frequent ADV types: so, just, very, when, also, how, now, even, there, then

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: so (ADV 571, SCONJ 73, X 2, ADJ 2, VERB 1), very (ADV 446, ADJ 5), when (ADV 445, X 1), how (ADV 311, NOUN 1), even (ADV 268, VERB 2), there (PRON 466, ADV 264, X 1), then (ADV 262, ADP 5, SCONJ 2, PRON 1, DET 1), only (ADV 254, ADJ 68), here (ADV 238, VERB 1), as (ADP 450, SCONJ 421, ADV 234, AUX 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: so (ADV 458, SCONJ 73, ADJ 2), very (ADV 397, ADJ 5), when (ADV 345, X 1), how (ADV 221, NOUN 1), even (ADV 237, VERB 1), there (PRON 312, ADV 258, X 1), then (ADV 218, ADP 5, SCONJ 2, DET 1, PRON 1), only (ADV 241, ADJ 66), here (ADV 178, VERB 1), as (ADP 403, SCONJ 363, ADV 222, AUX 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of ADV is 1.000000 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.173735).

The 1st highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “$ometime$”: $ometime$.

The 2nd highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “a”: a.

The 3rd highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “a.k.a.”: a.k.a..

ADV occurs with 4 features: en-feat/PronType (1802; 14% instances), en-feat/Degree (739; 6% instances), en-feat/NumType (77; 1% instances), en-feat/Number (1; 0% instances)

ADV occurs with 9 feature-value pairs: Degree=Cmp, Degree=Pos, Degree=Sup, NumType=Mult, NumType=Ord, Number=Sing, PronType=Dem, PronType=Int, PronType=Rel

ADV occurs with 10 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is _ (10255 tokens). Examples: so, just, very, also, now, even, only, as, back, really

Relations

ADV nodes are attached to their parents using 32 different relations: en-dep/advmod (10808; 84% instances), en-dep/mark (435; 3% instances), en-dep/neg (369; 3% instances), en-dep/root (249; 2% instances), en-dep/nmod (194; 2% instances), en-dep/mwe (168; 1% instances), en-dep/conj (134; 1% instances), en-dep/case (111; 1% instances), en-dep/cc (70; 1% instances), en-dep/advcl (64; 0% instances), en-dep/ccomp (37; 0% instances), en-dep/compound (28; 0% instances), en-dep/cc:preconj (25; 0% instances), en-dep/xcomp (24; 0% instances), en-dep/parataxis (23; 0% instances), en-dep/acl:relcl (19; 0% instances), en-dep/compound:prt (17; 0% instances), en-dep/discourse (17; 0% instances), en-dep/dobj (14; 0% instances), en-dep/amod (9; 0% instances), en-dep/remnant (9; 0% instances), en-dep/acl (8; 0% instances), en-dep/expl (7; 0% instances), en-dep/aux (6; 0% instances), en-dep/nmod:npmod (6; 0% instances), en-dep/nsubj (6; 0% instances), en-dep/nummod (6; 0% instances), en-dep/det (3; 0% instances), en-dep/nmod:tmod (3; 0% instances), en-dep/goeswith (2; 0% instances), en-dep/csubj (1; 0% instances), en-dep/dep (1; 0% instances)

Parents of ADV nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: VERB (7339; 57% instances), ADJ (2273; 18% instances), NOUN (1369; 11% instances), ADV (1073; 8% instances), ROOT (249; 2% instances), NUM (187; 1% instances), PROPN (153; 1% instances), PRON (101; 1% instances), DET (34; 0% instances), SYM (28; 0% instances), AUX (22; 0% instances), PART (15; 0% instances), SCONJ (12; 0% instances), ADP (8; 0% instances), INTJ (7; 0% instances), CONJ (2; 0% instances), PUNCT (1; 0% instances)

10813 (84%) ADV nodes are leaves.

1424 (11%) ADV nodes have one child.

297 (2%) ADV nodes have two children.

339 (3%) ADV nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a ADV node is 11.

Children of ADV nodes are attached using 36 different relations: en-dep/advmod (656; 19% instances), en-dep/punct (376; 11% instances), en-dep/nmod (344; 10% instances), en-dep/cop (285; 8% instances), en-dep/nsubj (284; 8% instances), en-dep/mwe (233; 7% instances), en-dep/case (201; 6% instances), en-dep/cc (164; 5% instances), en-dep/advcl (162; 5% instances), en-dep/nmod:npmod (140; 4% instances), en-dep/conj (136; 4% instances), en-dep/neg (131; 4% instances), en-dep/mark (84; 2% instances), en-dep/aux (59; 2% instances), en-dep/acl:relcl (36; 1% instances), en-dep/nmod:tmod (31; 1% instances), en-dep/parataxis (21; 1% instances), en-dep/discourse (19; 1% instances), en-dep/ccomp (18; 1% instances), en-dep/goeswith (18; 1% instances), en-dep/appos (12; 0% instances), en-dep/det (8; 0% instances), en-dep/remnant (8; 0% instances), en-dep/vocative (6; 0% instances), en-dep/amod (5; 0% instances), en-dep/cc:preconj (5; 0% instances), en-dep/xcomp (5; 0% instances), en-dep/auxpass (3; 0% instances), en-dep/dobj (3; 0% instances), en-dep/nsubjpass (3; 0% instances), en-dep/csubj (2; 0% instances), en-dep/acl (1; 0% instances), en-dep/compound (1; 0% instances), en-dep/compound:prt (1; 0% instances), en-dep/list (1; 0% instances), en-dep/nummod (1; 0% instances)

Children of ADV nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: ADV (1073; 31% instances), NOUN (505; 15% instances), VERB (505; 15% instances), PUNCT (376; 11% instances), PRON (182; 5% instances), ADP (177; 5% instances), CONJ (165; 5% instances), PROPN (103; 3% instances), AUX (79; 2% instances), SCONJ (74; 2% instances), PART (73; 2% instances), ADJ (61; 2% instances), DET (28; 1% instances), X (21; 1% instances), INTJ (16; 0% instances), NUM (14; 0% instances), SYM (11; 0% instances)


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-ESL)

There are 1 ADV lemmas (6%), 1 ADV types (6%) and 5704 ADV tokens (6%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of ADV is: 3 in number of lemmas, 3 in number of types and 8 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent ADV lemmas: _

The 10 most frequent ADV types: _

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: _ (NOUN 15635, VERB 15080, PRON 10618, DET 10057, PUNCT 9580, ADP 8546, ADJ 5857, ADV 5704, AUX 4533, PART 3531, CONJ 3198, SCONJ 2516, PROPN 1795, NUM 844, INTJ 80, X 68, SYM 39)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: _ (NOUN 15635, VERB 15080, PRON 10618, DET 10057, PUNCT 9580, ADP 8546, ADJ 5857, ADV 5704, AUX 4533, PART 3531, CONJ 3198, SCONJ 2516, PROPN 1795, NUM 844, INTJ 80, X 68, SYM 39)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of ADV is 1.000000 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.000000).

The 1st highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “_”: _.

ADV does not occur with any features.

Relations

ADV nodes are attached to their parents using 25 different relations: en-dep/advmod (4985; 87% instances), en-dep/mark (165; 3% instances), en-dep/neg (151; 3% instances), en-dep/mwe (74; 1% instances), en-dep/conj (60; 1% instances), en-dep/nmod (48; 1% instances), en-dep/case (41; 1% instances), en-dep/advcl (31; 1% instances), en-dep/root (31; 1% instances), en-dep/ccomp (23; 0% instances), en-dep/compound:prt (21; 0% instances), en-dep/cc (15; 0% instances), en-dep/amod (13; 0% instances), en-dep/xcomp (8; 0% instances), en-dep/cc:preconj (7; 0% instances), en-dep/discourse (7; 0% instances), en-dep/acl:relcl (6; 0% instances), en-dep/nsubj (4; 0% instances), en-dep/parataxis (4; 0% instances), en-dep/nmod:tmod (3; 0% instances), en-dep/csubj (2; 0% instances), en-dep/dobj (2; 0% instances), en-dep/acl (1; 0% instances), en-dep/compound (1; 0% instances), en-dep/nmod:npmod (1; 0% instances)

Parents of ADV nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: VERB (3188; 56% instances), ADJ (1425; 25% instances), NOUN (514; 9% instances), ADV (368; 6% instances), PROPN (59; 1% instances), NUM (54; 1% instances), ROOT (31; 1% instances), PRON (30; 1% instances), AUX (11; 0% instances), ADP (8; 0% instances), DET (7; 0% instances), SYM (4; 0% instances), SCONJ (2; 0% instances), X (2; 0% instances), PART (1; 0% instances)

4945 (87%) ADV nodes are leaves.

553 (10%) ADV nodes have one child.

118 (2%) ADV nodes have two children.

88 (2%) ADV nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a ADV node is 11.

Children of ADV nodes are attached using 31 different relations: en-dep/advmod (238; 21% instances), en-dep/nmod (142; 12% instances), en-dep/mwe (125; 11% instances), en-dep/cop (79; 7% instances), en-dep/nsubj (78; 7% instances), en-dep/punct (76; 7% instances), en-dep/advcl (66; 6% instances), en-dep/nmod:npmod (66; 6% instances), en-dep/case (58; 5% instances), en-dep/neg (45; 4% instances), en-dep/cc (43; 4% instances), en-dep/conj (42; 4% instances), en-dep/mark (24; 2% instances), en-dep/det (16; 1% instances), en-dep/aux (9; 1% instances), en-dep/nmod:tmod (8; 1% instances), en-dep/goeswith (6; 1% instances), en-dep/parataxis (6; 1% instances), en-dep/acl:relcl (4; 0% instances), en-dep/ccomp (4; 0% instances), en-dep/xcomp (4; 0% instances), en-dep/discourse (3; 0% instances), en-dep/nsubjpass (3; 0% instances), en-dep/acl (2; 0% instances), en-dep/auxpass (2; 0% instances), en-dep/csubj (1; 0% instances), en-dep/det:predet (1; 0% instances), en-dep/dobj (1; 0% instances), en-dep/expl (1; 0% instances), en-dep/nmod:poss (1; 0% instances), en-dep/nummod (1; 0% instances)

Children of ADV nodes belong to 16 different parts of speech: ADV (368; 32% instances), NOUN (153; 13% instances), VERB (143; 12% instances), ADP (102; 9% instances), DET (96; 8% instances), PUNCT (76; 7% instances), PRON (59; 5% instances), CONJ (44; 4% instances), PART (31; 3% instances), ADJ (29; 3% instances), SCONJ (19; 2% instances), AUX (15; 1% instances), PROPN (9; 1% instances), X (6; 1% instances), NUM (3; 0% instances), INTJ (2; 0% instances)


Treebank Statistics (UD_English-LinES)

There are 1 ADV lemmas (6%), 554 ADV types (5%) and 4610 ADV tokens (6%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of ADV is: 3 in number of lemmas, 5 in number of types and 8 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent ADV lemmas: _

The 10 most frequent ADV types: out, so, up, then, back, now, very, just, too, again

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: _ (NOUN 14939, VERB 11076, PUNCT 10025, ADP 8281, DET 7865, PRON 7793, ADJ 5305, ADV 4610, AUX 3168, PROPN 2792, CONJ 2535, PART 2131, SCONJ 1512, NUM 581, INTJ 159, X 43, SYM 6)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: out (ADV 195, ADP 33), so (ADV 140, SCONJ 6), up (ADV 166, ADP 22), back (ADV 99, NOUN 22, ADJ 1, VERB 1), very (ADV 92, ADJ 8), just (ADV 80, ADJ 2), there (PRON 121, ADV 81), only (ADV 79, ADJ 16, CONJ 3), as (ADP 219, SCONJ 176, ADV 73, CONJ 8), down (ADV 77, ADP 16)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of ADV is 554.000000 (the average of all parts of speech is 597.705882).

The 1st highest number of forms (554) was observed with the lemma “_”: &c, &c., Accordingly, Additionally, Anyways, Consequently, Dead, East, Firstly, Forthwith, Fortunately, Fourthly, Hence, Historically, Indirectly, Nonetheless, North, Now-and-then, Originally, Sadly, Secondly, Similarly, Specifically, Surely, Typically, Uncannily, Whence, a, a.m., ablaze, aboard, about, above, abruptly, absent-mindedly, absolutely, abstractedly, accidentally, accurately, across, actually, afar, affectionately, aft, after, afterwards, again, ahead, aimlessly, ajar, alike, all, all-night, almost, alone, along, aloud, already, also, altogether, always, and, angrily, anxiously, any, anyhow, anymore, anyway, anywhere, apart, apologetically, apparently, architecturally, around, as, ashore, aside, askew, asleep, at, athwart, attentively, automatically, away, awkwardly, back, back-and-forth, backwards, badly, barely, basically, before, beforehand, behind, belligerently, below, besides, best, better, between, beyond, bitterly, blindly, bolt, briefly, brightly, briskly, by, by-and-by, calmly, carefully, casually, certainly, cheekily, cheerfully, clearly, close, closely, closest, cloyingly, comfortably, comparatively, completely, confidently, confusedly, conscientiously, considerably, consistently, consolingly, constantly, contemptuously, contentedly, continually, continuously, conveniently, coolly, correctly, correspondingly, course, curiously, currently, daily, damn, damned, darkly, dazzlingly, dearly, decidedly, deep, deeply, definitely, deliberately, delicately, desperately, despondently, desultorily, differently, dimly, directly, down, downstairs, downward, due, dumbly, dutifully, dynamically, eagerly, earlier, early, earnestly, easily, eastward, ecklessly, effectively, effectually, either, elaborately, else, elsewhere, encouragingly, energetically, enough, enthusiastically, entirely, equally, especially, essentially, even, evenly, ever, everyday, everywhere, evidently, exactly, exceedingly, excitedly, exclusively, explicitly, extensively, extremely, fairly, far, farther, fast, feebly, feverishly, fiendishly, fiercely, finally, firmly, first, for, forcefully, fore-and-aft, formerly, forth, forward, forwards, frankly, freely, frequently, fro, fully, fundamentally, further, generally, gently, geologically, gingerly, gladly, gloriously, good, good-naturedly, grandly, greatly, grievously, grimly, gruffly, guiltily, halfway, hand, haphazardly, happily, harassedly, hard, harder, hardly, hastily, headlong, heavily, helplessly, here, hesitantly, high, higher, highly, hoarsely, home, honestly, horribly, how, however, immediately, impartially, impassively, impatiently, imperturbably, in, incomparably, increasingly, indeed, indefinitely, indiscriminately, indissolubly, indoors, inevitably, infrequently, inland, innocently, inquiringly, inside, instantly, instead, intensely, intently, internationally, invariably, inwardly, irreducibly, irresistibly, joyfully, just, languidly, last, late, lately, later, lazily, least, left, legally, less, literally, little, locally, logically, long, longer, loudly, lower, luckily, madly, mainly, majestically, manually, maybe, mercilessly, merely, methodically, miserably, modestly, more, moreover, mortally, most, mostly, much, mysteriously, n’t, namely, narrowly, naturally, near, nearby, nearer, nearest, nearly, neatly, necessarily, neither, nervously, never, nevertheless, newly, next, nimbly, no, normally, now, nowhere, o’clock, obliquely, obviously, occasionally, oddly, of, off, often, ominously, on, once, only, openly, opposite, optionally, otherwise, out, outer, outside, outwards, over, over-sea, overland, p.m, pacifically, particularly, partly, passionately, past, pathetically, patiently, perfectly, perhaps, permanently, persistently, personally, pettishly, plain, pleasantly, pm, politely, politically, pompously, ponderously, positively, possibly, precious, precisely, presently, presumably, pretty, previously, probably, programmatically, properly, proudly, purely, queerly, quickly, quietly, quite, radiantly, randomly, rapidly, rather, readily, really, reasonably, recently, regrettably, relatively, remarkably, reproachfully, rhythmically, richly, right, rightly, round, ruddy, safely, savagely, scientifically, scornfully, seaward, seldom, self-righteously, sententiously, separately, seriously, sharply, side, simply, since, sincerely, slightly, slowly, slyly, so, softly, some, somehow, sometimes, somewhat, somewhere, soon, sooner, soothingly, south, specially, speedily, spiritually, splendidly, spontaneously, startlingly, steadily, stiffly, still, stock-still, stonily, straight, strongly, stupidly, suavely, subsequently, successfully, suddenly, surprisingly, suspiciously, swiftly, tearfully, temporarily, tentatively, terribly, the, then, theoretically, there, thereabouts, thereafter, therefore, thereupon, though, through, thus, tightly, together, too, totally, truly, twice, ultimately, unanimously, uncertainly, uncomfortably, underfoot, underneath, undoubtedly, unenjoyably, unexpectedly, unfortunately, untidily, unusually, up, up-stairs, uphill, upon, upright, upside-down, upstairs, uptown, upward, urgently, usual, usually, utterly, vaguely, verily, very, viciously, vigilantly, violently, visibly, vividly, warmly, watchfully, weakly, well, west, whatsoever, when, where, wherever, wholeheartedly, wholesomely, wholly, why, wide, widely, wildly, within, without, wonderfully, world-wide, yet.

ADV does not occur with any features.

Relations

ADV nodes are attached to their parents using 23 different relations: en-dep/advmod (3830; 83% instances), en-dep/compound:prt (336; 7% instances), en-dep/mwe (142; 3% instances), en-dep/conj (73; 2% instances), en-dep/neg (73; 2% instances), en-dep/mark (37; 1% instances), en-dep/root (21; 0% instances), en-dep/case (20; 0% instances), en-dep/discourse (15; 0% instances), en-dep/dobj (14; 0% instances), en-dep/appos (11; 0% instances), en-dep/dislocated (8; 0% instances), en-dep/nmod (8; 0% instances), en-dep/amod (5; 0% instances), en-dep/compound (4; 0% instances), en-dep/expl (3; 0% instances), en-dep/parataxis (3; 0% instances), en-dep/acl:relcl (2; 0% instances), en-dep/acl (1; 0% instances), en-dep/advcl (1; 0% instances), en-dep/det (1; 0% instances), en-dep/nsubj (1; 0% instances), en-dep/xcomp (1; 0% instances)

Parents of ADV nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: VERB (2909; 63% instances), ADJ (539; 12% instances), NOUN (418; 9% instances), ADV (409; 9% instances), PRON (87; 2% instances), SCONJ (50; 1% instances), NUM (46; 1% instances), AUX (43; 1% instances), ADP (30; 1% instances), PROPN (28; 1% instances), ROOT (21; 0% instances), DET (12; 0% instances), CONJ (10; 0% instances), PUNCT (4; 0% instances), PART (2; 0% instances), INTJ (1; 0% instances), SYM (1; 0% instances)

3696 (80%) ADV nodes are leaves.

662 (14%) ADV nodes have one child.

182 (4%) ADV nodes have two children.

70 (2%) ADV nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a ADV node is 13.

Children of ADV nodes are attached using 26 different relations: en-dep/punct (376; 29% instances), en-dep/advmod (244; 19% instances), en-dep/mwe (214; 17% instances), en-dep/nmod (71; 6% instances), en-dep/cc (64; 5% instances), en-dep/conj (54; 4% instances), en-dep/acl (48; 4% instances), en-dep/case (47; 4% instances), en-dep/neg (40; 3% instances), en-dep/name (21; 2% instances), en-dep/nsubj (20; 2% instances), en-dep/amod (14; 1% instances), en-dep/appos (13; 1% instances), en-dep/det (13; 1% instances), en-dep/cop (10; 1% instances), en-dep/acl:relcl (8; 1% instances), en-dep/mark (7; 1% instances), en-dep/parataxis (5; 0% instances), en-dep/nummod (4; 0% instances), en-dep/advcl (3; 0% instances), en-dep/compound (3; 0% instances), en-dep/discourse (3; 0% instances), en-dep/expl (2; 0% instances), en-dep/aux (1; 0% instances), en-dep/dislocated (1; 0% instances), en-dep/xcomp (1; 0% instances)

Children of ADV nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: ADV (409; 32% instances), PUNCT (376; 29% instances), NOUN (121; 9% instances), ADP (99; 8% instances), VERB (81; 6% instances), CONJ (68; 5% instances), ADJ (28; 2% instances), PART (27; 2% instances), PROPN (22; 2% instances), DET (17; 1% instances), PRON (16; 1% instances), AUX (8; 1% instances), SCONJ (7; 1% instances), INTJ (4; 0% instances), NUM (4; 0% instances)


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