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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 .

Agian ez zela hain beharrezkoa .

That maybe it was not so necessary .

Gune ez hiritarretan bizi dira nagusiki .

(They) mainly live in non urban areas .


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: VERB-PART (1263; 93% instances), CONJ-PART (38; 3% instances), NOUN-PART (18; 1% instances), PUNCT-PART (16; 1% instances), AUX-PART (10; 1% instances), ADJ-PART (7; 1% instances), ADV-PART (2; 0% instances), DET-PART (1; 0% instances).


neg in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]
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