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advmod: adverbial modifier

An adverbial modifier of a word (advmod) is a (non-clausal) adverb or adverbial phrase that serves to modify the meaning of the word.

We differentiate adverbials realized as adverbs (advmod) and adverbials realized by noun phrases or adpositional phrases (nmod) .

Rich, ordea, ez dago bakarrik .

Rich, however, is not alone .

Rich, ordea, ez dago bakarrik . \n Rich, however, is not alone .

nsubj(dago-4, Rich-1)
advmod(dago-4, ordea-2)
neg(dago-4, ez-3)
advmod(dago-4, bakarrik-5)
punct(dago-4, .-6)

Han ez zen ezer mugitzen .

Nothing was moved there .

Han ez zen ezer mugitzen . \n There was nothing moved . 

advmod(mugitzen-5, Han-1)
neg(mugitzen-5, ez-2)
aux(mugitzen-5, zen-3)
nsubj(mugitzen-5, ezer-4)
punct(mugitzen-5, .-6)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Basque)

This relation is universal.

5368 nodes (4%) are attached to their parents as advmod.

4255 instances of advmod (79%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 2.96218330849478.

The following 38 pairs of parts of speech are connected with advmod: eu-pos/VERB-eu-pos/ADV (3802; 71% instances), eu-pos/VERB-eu-pos/CONJ (997; 19% instances), eu-pos/ADJ-eu-pos/ADV (222; 4% instances), eu-pos/ADV-eu-pos/ADV (76; 1% instances), eu-pos/VERB-eu-pos/X (66; 1% instances), eu-pos/VERB-eu-pos/DET (37; 1% instances), eu-pos/VERB-eu-pos/NOUN (25; 0% instances), eu-pos/NOUN-eu-pos/CONJ (20; 0% instances), eu-pos/NOUN-eu-pos/ADV (15; 0% instances), eu-pos/PROPN-eu-pos/CONJ (11; 0% instances), eu-pos/DET-eu-pos/ADV (10; 0% instances), eu-pos/VERB-eu-pos/PROPN (9; 0% instances), eu-pos/ADJ-eu-pos/CONJ (8; 0% instances), eu-pos/AUX-eu-pos/ADV (7; 0% instances), eu-pos/VERB-eu-pos/VERB (7; 0% instances), eu-pos/VERB-eu-pos/NUM (5; 0% instances), eu-pos/ADJ-eu-pos/DET (4; 0% instances), eu-pos/ADJ-eu-pos/NOUN (4; 0% instances), eu-pos/ADJ-eu-pos/PRON (4; 0% instances), eu-pos/ADP-eu-pos/CONJ (4; 0% instances), eu-pos/ADV-eu-pos/CONJ (4; 0% instances), eu-pos/DET-eu-pos/CONJ (4; 0% instances), eu-pos/NUM-eu-pos/ADV (4; 0% instances), eu-pos/ADJ-eu-pos/X (3; 0% instances), eu-pos/ADV-eu-pos/DET (2; 0% instances), eu-pos/ADV-eu-pos/NOUN (2; 0% instances), eu-pos/AUX-eu-pos/CONJ (2; 0% instances), eu-pos/VERB-eu-pos/ADJ (2; 0% instances), eu-pos/VERB-eu-pos/INTJ (2; 0% instances), eu-pos/VERB-eu-pos/PART (2; 0% instances), eu-pos/ADJ-eu-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), eu-pos/ADP-eu-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), eu-pos/ADV-eu-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), eu-pos/DET-eu-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), eu-pos/NOUN-eu-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), eu-pos/NOUN-eu-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), eu-pos/PRON-eu-pos/CONJ (1; 0% instances), eu-pos/X-eu-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances).

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1	O.G.M.	O.G.M.	PROPN	_	_	2	nmod	_	_
2	adin	adin	NOUN	_	_	5	nsubj	_	_
3	txikikoa	txiki	NOUN	_	Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
4	aske	aske	ADV	_	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	irten	irten	VERB	_	Aspect=Perf|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	da	izan	AUX	_	Mood=Ind|Number[abs]=Sing|Person[abs]=3	5	aux	_	_
7	Langraiztik	Langraiz	PROPN	_	Case=Abl|Definite=Def|Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	5	punct	_	_

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1	Atenasen	Atenas	PROPN	_	Case=Ine|Definite=Def|Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
2	ordea	ordea	CONJ	_	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	8	punct	_	_
4	beste	beste	DET	_	_	6	det	_	_
5	bost	bost	NUM	_	_	6	nummod	_	_
6	jarduera	jarduera	NOUN	_	Case=Abs|Definite=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
7	gehiago	gehiago	DET	_	Case=Abs|Definite=Ind	6	det	_	_
8	izan	izan	VERB	_	Aspect=Perf|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	daitezke	*edin	AUX	_	Mood=Pot|Number[abs]=Plur|Person[abs]=3	8	aux	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	8	punct	_	_

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1	Zaurituetako	zauritu	VERB	_	Case=Loc|Definite=Def|Number=Plur|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
2	12ren	12	NUM	_	NumType=Card	3	nmod	_	_
3	egoera	egoera	NOUN	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	9	punct	_	_
5	berriz	berriz	CONJ	_	_	9	advmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	9	punct	_	_
7	oso	oso	ADV	_	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	larria	larri	ADJ	_	Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	zen	izan	VERB	_	Aspect=Prog|Mood=Ind|Number[abs]=Sing|Person[abs]=3	8	cop	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	8	punct	_	_


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