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neg: negation modifier

The negation modifier is the relation between a negation word and the word it modifies.

Words ‘ei’, ‘ära’ and ‘ärge’ as parts of negative verb form are annotated using this relation.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Estonian)

This relation is universal.

2245 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as neg.

2245 instances of neg (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.01514476614699.

The following 2 pairs of parts of speech are connected with neg: VERB-AUX (1944; 87% instances), AUX-AUX (301; 13% instances).


neg in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]
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