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cop: copula

The cop relation is used with copulative verbs. The main difference between the general UD schema and the Basque annotation follows form the fact that English to be corresponds to several in Basque verbs. More precisely, izan (to be), egon (to be), ukan (to have), geratu (to stay keep), ibili (to be).

Eizagirre izan zen onena Galarretan .

Eizagirre was the best one in Galarreta .

Eizagirre izan zen onena Galarretan . \n Eizagirre was one_best_the Galarreta_in . 

nsubj(onena-4, Eizagirre-1)
cop(onena-4, izan-2)
aux(onena-4, zen-3)
nmod(onena-4, Galarretan-5)
punct(onena-4, .-6)

Beti ito beldur nabil .

I am always scared to drown .

Beti ito beldur nabil . \n always to_drown scared I_am. 

advmod(nabil-4, Beti-1)
advcl(nabil-4, ito-2)
cop(beldur-3, nabil-4)
punct(beldur-3, .-5)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Basque)

This relation is universal.

2453 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as cop.

1976 instances of cop (81%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 1.73216469629026.

The following 19 pairs of parts of speech are connected with cop: eu-pos/NOUN-eu-pos/VERB (1071; 44% instances), eu-pos/ADJ-eu-pos/VERB (672; 27% instances), eu-pos/VERB-eu-pos/VERB (454; 19% instances), eu-pos/ADV-eu-pos/VERB (81; 3% instances), eu-pos/NUM-eu-pos/VERB (59; 2% instances), eu-pos/DET-eu-pos/VERB (49; 2% instances), eu-pos/PROPN-eu-pos/VERB (22; 1% instances), eu-pos/NOUN-eu-pos/AUX (12; 0% instances), eu-pos/ADJ-eu-pos/AUX (9; 0% instances), eu-pos/VERB-eu-pos/AUX (9; 0% instances), eu-pos/PRON-eu-pos/VERB (6; 0% instances), eu-pos/ADJ-eu-pos/ADJ (2; 0% instances), eu-pos/ADJ-eu-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), eu-pos/ADV-eu-pos/AUX (1; 0% instances), eu-pos/AUX-eu-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), eu-pos/CONJ-eu-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), eu-pos/NOUN-eu-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), eu-pos/VERB-eu-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), eu-pos/X-eu-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances).

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1	292	292	NUM	_	_	2	nummod	_	_
2	kiloko	kilo	NOUN	_	Animacy=Inan	3	nmod	_	_
3	harria	harri	NOUN	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	da	izan	VERB	_	Aspect=Prog|Mood=Ind|Number[abs]=Sing|Person[abs]=3	3	cop	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	3	punct	_	_
6	eta	eta	CONJ	_	_	4	cc	_	_
7	harrezkero	harrezkero	ADV	_	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	harri	harri	NOUN	_	_	10	dobj	_	_
9	bera	bera	DET	_	Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Sing	8	det	_	_
10	darabilgu	erabili	VERB	_	Aspect=Prog|Mood=Ind|Number[abs]=Sing|Number[erg]=Plur|Person[abs]=3|Person[erg]=1	4	conj	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	3	punct	_	_

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1	Hurrengo	hurrengo	ADJ	_	_	2	amod	_	_
2	orrialdeko	orrialde	NOUN	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Loc|Definite=Def|Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
3	mapa	mapa	NOUN	_	Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	baliagarria	baliagarri	ADJ	_	Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	izan	izan	VERB	_	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
6	dakizuke	*edin	AUX	_	Mood=Pot|Number[abs]=Sing|Number[dat]=Sing|Person[abs]=3|Person[dat]=2	5	aux	_	_
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	4	punct	_	_

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1	Kartzelak	kartzela	NOUN	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	gure	gu	PRON	_	PronType=Prs	3	nmod	_	_
3	ezagunez	ezagun	NOUN	_	Case=Ins|Definite=Def|Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
4	beteta	bete	VERB	_	VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	daude	egon	VERB	_	Aspect=Prog|Mood=Ind|Number[abs]=Plur|Person[abs]=3	4	cop	_	_
6	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	4	punct	_	_


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