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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 .

Beti ito beldur nabil .

I am always scared to drown .


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: NOUN-VERB (1071; 44% instances), ADJ-VERB (672; 27% instances), VERB-VERB (454; 19% instances), ADV-VERB (81; 3% instances), NUM-VERB (59; 2% instances), DET-VERB (49; 2% instances), PROPN-VERB (22; 1% instances), NOUN-AUX (12; 0% instances), ADJ-AUX (9; 0% instances), VERB-AUX (9; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (6; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (2; 0% instances), ADJ-NOUN (1; 0% instances), ADV-AUX (1; 0% instances), AUX-VERB (1; 0% instances), CONJ-VERB (1; 0% instances), NOUN-NOUN (1; 0% instances), VERB-NOUN (1; 0% instances), X-VERB (1; 0% instances).


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