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punct: punctuation

punct relation is used to annotate punctuation marks.

Two kinds of punctuations can be distinguished:

Coordination in the Basque UD annotation follows the general schema where the first element of the conjunction is the head, and each conjunct, conjunction complementizer or puntuation mark acting as a conjunction should be attached to the first conjunct:

Zidane, Henry, Barthez, Deschamps, Blanc eta enparauek Europako Talde sendoena osatzen dute aditu gehienentzat .

Zidane, Henry, Barthez, Deschamps, Blanc and the rest form the most robust team of Europe according to most experts .

Full stop is linked to the head of the sentence.

Eztabaida handia sortu du aldaketak .

The change has caused a huge discussion .


Treebank Statistics (UD_Basque)

This relation is universal.

19808 nodes (16%) are attached to their parents as punct.

15294 instances of punct (77%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 5.93820678513732.

The following 19 pairs of parts of speech are connected with punct: VERB-PUNCT (16109; 81% instances), NOUN-PUNCT (2099; 11% instances), ADJ-PUNCT (616; 3% instances), PROPN-PUNCT (593; 3% instances), ADV-PUNCT (100; 1% instances), NUM-PUNCT (78; 0% instances), CONJ-PUNCT (52; 0% instances), AUX-PUNCT (47; 0% instances), DET-PUNCT (42; 0% instances), PUNCT-PUNCT (32; 0% instances), ADP-PUNCT (16; 0% instances), VERB-CONJ (6; 0% instances), VERB-PROPN (6; 0% instances), X-PUNCT (4; 0% instances), NOUN-PROPN (3; 0% instances), PART-PUNCT (2; 0% instances), INTJ-PUNCT (1; 0% instances), PRON-PUNCT (1; 0% instances), VERB-NOUN (1; 0% instances).


punct 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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