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root: root

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for root.

The root grammatical relation points to the root of the sentence. A fake node “ROOT” is used as the governor. The ROOT node is indexed with “0”, since the indexation of real words in the sentence starts at 1.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Spanish)

This relation is universal.

16013 nodes (4%) are attached to their parents as root.

16013 instances of root (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 6.91475676013239.

The following 15 pairs of parts of speech are connected with root: es-pos/ROOT-VERB (11840; 74% instances), es-pos/ROOT-NOUN (2640; 16% instances), es-pos/ROOT-ADJ (1030; 6% instances), es-pos/ROOT-PRON (227; 1% instances), es-pos/ROOT-PROPN (186; 1% instances), es-pos/ROOT-NUM (22; 0% instances), es-pos/ROOT-DET (20; 0% instances), es-pos/ROOT-X (17; 0% instances), es-pos/ROOT-ADV (14; 0% instances), es-pos/ROOT-ADP (4; 0% instances), es-pos/ROOT-AUX (4; 0% instances), es-pos/ROOT-SYM (4; 0% instances), es-pos/ROOT-PART (3; 0% instances), es-pos/ROOT-CONJ (1; 0% instances), es-pos/ROOT-PUNCT (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Spanish-AnCora)

This relation is universal.

17680 nodes (3%) are attached to their parents as root.

17680 instances of root (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 9.60226244343891.

The following 16 pairs of parts of speech are connected with root: es-pos/ROOT-VERB (14266; 81% instances), es-pos/ROOT-NOUN (1508; 9% instances), es-pos/ROOT-ADJ (915; 5% instances), es-pos/ROOT-AUX (273; 2% instances), es-pos/ROOT-PROPN (175; 1% instances), es-pos/ROOT-PRON (157; 1% instances), es-pos/ROOT-CONJ (134; 1% instances), es-pos/ROOT-ADV (126; 1% instances), es-pos/ROOT-ADP (44; 0% instances), es-pos/ROOT-NUM (27; 0% instances), es-pos/ROOT-INTJ (23; 0% instances), es-pos/ROOT-PUNCT (12; 0% instances), es-pos/ROOT-DET (8; 0% instances), es-pos/ROOT-SCONJ (6; 0% instances), es-pos/ROOT-SYM (4; 0% instances), es-pos/ROOT-PART (2; 0% instances).


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