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amod: adjectival modifier

Nouns may take adjectival modifiers, which are marked with the dependency type amod. Most of the adjectives appear after the noun they modify, though some of them may appear before.

Epaiketa horrek kezka handia piztu du .

That trial has caused a big concern .

Mutikoak heldu ditun dantzaldira atorra urdin argi batekin .

The boys have arrived to the ball with a light blue shirt .

Azkeneko 400 metroak minutu batean osatu zituen Derartu Tuluk .

Derartu Tulu made the last 400 meters in one minute .


Treebank Statistics (UD_Basque)

This relation is universal.

4190 nodes (3%) are attached to their parents as amod.

3017 instances of amod (72%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 1.07398568019093.

The following 17 pairs of parts of speech are connected with amod: NOUN-ADJ (3462; 83% instances), NOUN-NUM (539; 13% instances), PROPN-ADJ (67; 2% instances), ADJ-ADJ (35; 1% instances), PROPN-NUM (28; 1% instances), ADP-NUM (24; 1% instances), DET-ADJ (9; 0% instances), NUM-NUM (6; 0% instances), CONJ-NUM (5; 0% instances), NUM-ADJ (5; 0% instances), ADJ-NUM (3; 0% instances), PUNCT-NUM (2; 0% instances), ADJ-NOUN (1; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (1; 0% instances), DET-NUM (1; 0% instances), SYM-ADJ (1; 0% instances), VERB-NOUN (1; 0% instances).


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