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iobj: indirect object

The indirect object (iobj) of a verb is any nominal phrase that is a core argument of the verb but is not its subject or direct object. As Basque is a language that distinguishes morphological cases, the indirect object is marked by the dative case.

Ikasleei esan zien arratsaldean ikasi behar zutela .

(He/she told the students that they needed to study in the evening .

Ahalegin haundia egin du guri geografia irakasten .

(He/she) has made a great effort teaching us geography .

Djukanovicek aldaketa handia eman dio bere ildo politikoari .

Djukanovic has given a big change to his political course .


Treebank Statistics (UD_Basque)

This relation is universal.

1022 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as iobj.

689 instances of iobj (67%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 2.73287671232877.

The following 17 pairs of parts of speech are connected with iobj: VERB-NOUN (668; 65% instances), VERB-PROPN (225; 22% instances), VERB-DET (32; 3% instances), VERB-PRON (30; 3% instances), VERB-VERB (19; 2% instances), VERB-ADJ (13; 1% instances), VERB-NUM (9; 1% instances), NOUN-NOUN (6; 1% instances), PUNCT-NOUN (5; 0% instances), CONJ-PROPN (4; 0% instances), CONJ-NOUN (3; 0% instances), PUNCT-PROPN (2; 0% instances), X-NOUN (2; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (1; 0% instances), AUX-PROPN (1; 0% instances), NOUN-PROPN (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-NUM (1; 0% instances).


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