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mwe: multi-word expression

mwe, the multi-word expression (modifier) relation, is one of the three relations (compound, mwe, name) for compounding. It is used for certain fixed grammaticized expressions that behave like function words or short adverbials.

Eskolatik irten ondoren, beste hainbat gauza ikasten dituzte, besteak beste pianoa eta artea .

After leaving school, he/she learns some other things, among others piano and art .

Hakkinen baino sendoago ari da, argi eta garbi .

He/she is stronger than Hakkinen, as clear as water .


Treebank Statistics (UD_Basque)

This relation is universal.

290 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as mwe.

289 instances of mwe (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 1.12068965517241.

The following 12 pairs of parts of speech are connected with mwe: ADV-ADV (91; 31% instances), ADV-CONJ (79; 27% instances), NUM-CONJ (40; 14% instances), NOUN-DET (18; 6% instances), NUM-NUM (14; 5% instances), ADV-ADJ (13; 4% instances), DET-DET (13; 4% instances), DET-NOUN (9; 3% instances), CONJ-CONJ (6; 2% instances), NOUN-CONJ (3; 1% instances), VERB-CONJ (3; 1% instances), CONJ-VERB (1; 0% instances).


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