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neg: negation modifier

The negation modifier (neg) is the relation between a negation word and the word it modifies. Modifiers labeled neg depend either on a noun (group “noun dependents”) or on a predicate (group “non-core dependents of clausal predicates”).

Ez da inolako hazkunderik antzematen euskararen erabileran .

It has not perceived any growth in the use of Basque .

Ez da inolako hazkunderik antzematen euskararen erabileran .\n  Not has any growth perceived Basque_of use_the_in .

neg(antzematen-5, Ez-1)
aux(antzematen-5, da-2)
amod(hazkunderik-4, inolako-3)
nsubj(antzematen-5, hazkunderik-4)
nmod(erabileran-7, euskararen-6)
nmod(antzematen-5, erabileran-7)
punct(antzematen-5, .-6)

Agian ez zela hain beharrezkoa .

That maybe it was not so necessary .

Agian ez zela hain beharrezkoa .\n  Maybe not was_that so necessary .

advmod(zela-3, Agian-1)
neg(zela-3, ez-2)
adv(beharrezkoa-5, hain-4)
cop(beharrezkoa-5, zela-3)
punct(zela-3, .-6)

Gune ez hiritarretan bizi dira nagusiki .

(They) mainly live in non urban areas .

Gune ez hiritarretan bizi_dira nagusiki .\n  Areas non_urban_in live imainly .

nmod(bizi_dira-4, Gune-1)
neg(hiritarretan-3, ez-2)
amod(Gune-1, hiritarretan-3)
advmod(bizi_dira-4, nagusiki-5)
punct(bizi_dira-4, .-6)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Basque)

This relation is universal.

1355 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as neg.

1212 instances of neg (89%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 2.25166051660517.

The following 8 pairs of parts of speech are connected with neg: eu-pos/VERB-eu-pos/PART (1263; 93% instances), eu-pos/CONJ-eu-pos/PART (38; 3% instances), eu-pos/NOUN-eu-pos/PART (18; 1% instances), eu-pos/PUNCT-eu-pos/PART (16; 1% instances), eu-pos/AUX-eu-pos/PART (10; 1% instances), eu-pos/ADJ-eu-pos/PART (7; 1% instances), eu-pos/ADV-eu-pos/PART (2; 0% instances), eu-pos/DET-eu-pos/PART (1; 0% instances).

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1	Aurkariari	aurkari	NOUN	_	Case=Dat|Definite=Def|Number=Sing	2	iobj	_	_
2	dagokionez	egon	VERB	_	Aspect=Prog|Mood=Ind|Number[abs]=Sing|Number[dat]=Sing|Person[abs]=3|Person[dat]=3	6	advcl	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	6	punct	_	_
4	Feyenoord	Feyenoord	PROPN	_	_	6	nsubj	_	_
5	ez	ez	PART	_	Negative=Neg	6	neg	_	_
6	dago	egon	VERB	_	Aspect=Prog|Mood=Ind|Number[abs]=Sing|Person[abs]=3	0	root	_	_
7	bere	bera	DET	_	Case=Gen|Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
8	garairik	garai	ADJ	_	Case=Par|Definite=Ind	6	nmod	_	_
9	onenean	on	ADJ	_	Case=Ine|Definite=Def|Degree=Sup|Number=Sing	8	amod	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	6	punct	_	_

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1	Golarekin	gola	NOUN	_	Case=Com|Definite=Ind	2	nmod	_	_
2	asmatu	asmatu	VERB	_	VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
3	edo	edo	CONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	_
4	ez	ez	PART	_	Negative=Neg	3	neg	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	8	punct	_	_
6	lan	lan	NOUN	_	_	8	dobj	_	_
7	baliagarria	baliagarri	ADJ	_	Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Sing	6	amod	_	_
8	egingo	egin	VERB	_	Aspect=Pro|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	du	*edun	AUX	_	Mood=Ind|Number[abs]=Sing|Number[erg]=Sing|Person[abs]=3|Person[erg]=3	8	aux	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	8	punct	_	_

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1	Iruditu	iruditu	VERB	_	Aspect=Perf|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	zitzaidan	izan	AUX	_	Mood=Ind|Number[abs]=Sing|Number[dat]=Sing|Person[abs]=3|Person[dat]=1	1	aux	_	_
3	bizitzak	bizitza	NOUN	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Erg|Definite=Def|Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	ez	ez	PART	_	Negative=Neg	6	neg	_	_
5	zuela	ukan	VERB	_	_	1	ccomp	_	_
6	merezi	merezi	NOUN	_	Case=Abs|Definite=Ind	5	dep	_	_
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	1	punct	_	_


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