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PUNCT: punctuation

Definition

Punctuation marks are non-alphabetical characters and character groups used in many languages to delimit linguistic units in printed text.

Punctuation is not taken to include logograms such as $, %, and §, which are instead tagged as SYM.

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Spanish)

There are 35 PUNCT lemmas (0%), 35 PUNCT types (0%) and 47525 PUNCT tokens (11%). Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of PUNCT is: 13 in number of lemmas, 13 in number of types and 4 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent PUNCT lemmas: ,, ., “, (, ), -, :, ;, ‘, /

The 10 most frequent PUNCT types: ,, ., “, (, ), -, :, ;, ‘, /

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: , (PUNCT 21258, X 1), (PUNCT 2719, X 5), ) (PUNCT 2403, X 1), - (PUNCT 1073, X 1), ; (PUNCT 288, X 2), (PUNCT 207, X 2), / (PUNCT 194, SYM 22), » (PUNCT 167, ADJ 2), (PUNCT 156, X 1), [ (PUNCT 17, X 1, PROPN 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: , (PUNCT 21258, X 1), (PUNCT 2719, X 5), ) (PUNCT 2403, X 1), - (PUNCT 1073, X 1), ; (PUNCT 288, X 2), (PUNCT 207, X 2), / (PUNCT 194, SYM 22), » (PUNCT 167, ADJ 2), (PUNCT 156, X 1), [ (PUNCT 17, X 1, PROPN 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of PUNCT is 1.000000 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.255739).

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

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

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

PUNCT does not occur with any features.

Relations

PUNCT nodes are attached to their parents using 2 different relations: es-dep/punct (47524; 100% instances), es-dep/root (1; 0% instances)

Parents of PUNCT nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: VERB (20767; 44% instances), NOUN (12981; 27% instances), PROPN (7263; 15% instances), ADJ (2690; 6% instances), NUM (1202; 3% instances), PRON (697; 1% instances), X (670; 1% instances), ADV (573; 1% instances), SYM (302; 1% instances), ADP (196; 0% instances), CONJ (84; 0% instances), DET (57; 0% instances), AUX (14; 0% instances), PUNCT (12; 0% instances), PART (9; 0% instances), SCONJ (7; 0% instances), ROOT (1; 0% instances)

47513 (100%) PUNCT nodes are leaves.

4 (0%) PUNCT nodes have one child.

7 (0%) PUNCT nodes have two children.

1 (0%) PUNCT nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a PUNCT node is 6.

Children of PUNCT nodes are attached using 12 different relations: es-dep/punct (12; 50% instances), es-dep/cop (2; 8% instances), es-dep/acl:relcl (1; 4% instances), es-dep/advmod (1; 4% instances), es-dep/appos (1; 4% instances), es-dep/case (1; 4% instances), es-dep/cc (1; 4% instances), es-dep/dep (1; 4% instances), es-dep/det (1; 4% instances), es-dep/nmod (1; 4% instances), es-dep/nsubj (1; 4% instances), es-dep/nummod (1; 4% instances)

Children of PUNCT nodes belong to 10 different parts of speech: PUNCT (12; 50% instances), ADP (2; 8% instances), NOUN (2; 8% instances), VERB (2; 8% instances), ADV (1; 4% instances), CONJ (1; 4% instances), DET (1; 4% instances), PRON (1; 4% instances), PROPN (1; 4% instances), SYM (1; 4% instances)


Treebank Statistics (UD_Spanish-AnCora)

There are 18 PUNCT lemmas (0%), 19 PUNCT types (0%) and 65501 PUNCT tokens (12%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of PUNCT is: 13 in number of lemmas, 13 in number of types and 4 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent PUNCT lemmas: ,, ., “, -, (, ), :, ?, ;, ¿

The 10 most frequent PUNCT types: ,, ., “, -, (, ), :, ?, ;, ¿

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: (SYM 100, PUNCT 8), / (PUNCT 8, SYM 4)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: (SYM 100, PUNCT 8), / (PUNCT 8, SYM 4)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of PUNCT is 1.055556 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.501056).

The 1st highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “etcétera”: etc, etcétera.

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

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

PUNCT occurs with 2 features: es-feat/PunctType (65415; 100% instances), es-feat/PunctSide (4417; 7% instances)

PUNCT occurs with 11 feature-value pairs: PunctSide=Fin, PunctSide=Ini, PunctType=Brck, PunctType=Colo, PunctType=Comm, PunctType=Dash, PunctType=Excl, PunctType=Peri, PunctType=Qest, PunctType=Quot, PunctType=Semi

PUNCT occurs with 13 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is PunctType=Comm (30306 tokens). Examples: ,, …, etcétera, etc

Relations

PUNCT nodes are attached to their parents using 6 different relations: es-dep/punct (65465; 100% instances), es-dep/compound (19; 0% instances), es-dep/root (12; 0% instances), es-dep/conj (2; 0% instances), es-dep/nmod (2; 0% instances), es-dep/mwe (1; 0% instances)

Parents of PUNCT nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: VERB (29429; 45% instances), NOUN (16292; 25% instances), PROPN (7202; 11% instances), ADJ (5406; 8% instances), ADV (1925; 3% instances), ADP (1290; 2% instances), NUM (959; 1% instances), PRON (955; 1% instances), AUX (870; 1% instances), CONJ (446; 1% instances), DET (213; 0% instances), INTJ (136; 0% instances), SYM (111; 0% instances), SCONJ (110; 0% instances), PART (78; 0% instances), PUNCT (67; 0% instances), ROOT (12; 0% instances)

65466 (100%) PUNCT nodes are leaves.

0 (0%) PUNCT nodes have one child.

2 (0%) PUNCT nodes have two children.

33 (0%) PUNCT nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a PUNCT node is 9.

Children of PUNCT nodes are attached using 7 different relations: es-dep/punct (67; 38% instances), es-dep/cc (51; 29% instances), es-dep/conj (51; 29% instances), es-dep/nmod (3; 2% instances), es-dep/name (2; 1% instances), es-dep/acl (1; 1% instances), es-dep/det (1; 1% instances)

Children of PUNCT nodes belong to 14 different parts of speech: PUNCT (67; 38% instances), CONJ (43; 24% instances), NOUN (18; 10% instances), VERB (17; 10% instances), ADJ (6; 3% instances), PROPN (6; 3% instances), ADP (5; 3% instances), ADV (4; 2% instances), AUX (3; 2% instances), PRON (2; 1% instances), SYM (2; 1% instances), DET (1; 1% instances), PART (1; 1% instances), SCONJ (1; 1% instances)


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