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ADV: adverb

Description

Adverbs are words that typically modify adjectives, verbs or other adverbs for such categories as time, place, direction or manner. In Basque, the free word order allows the averbs to appear on either side of the verb.

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Basque)

There are 567 ADV lemmas (5%), 645 ADV types (3%) and 5178 ADV tokens (4%). Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of ADV is: 6 in number of lemmas, 7 in number of types and 8 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent ADV lemmas: atzo, oso, gaur, orain, ondoren, gero, hala, han, bertan, beti

The 10 most frequent ADV types: atzo, oso, gaur, orain, ondoren, gero, hala, bertan, beti, ondo

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: atzo (ADV 388, NOUN 16), oso (ADV 246, ADJ 82), gaur (ADV 201, NOUN 4), orain (ADV 168, NOUN 3), ondoren (ADV 109, ADP 28), gero (ADV 106, NOUN 3), han (ADV 85, NOUN 1), ondo (ADV 82, ADP 11, NOUN 8), egun (NOUN 192, ADV 78), aurten (ADV 55, NOUN 4)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: ondoren (ADV 91, ADP 27), egun (NOUN 54, ADV 47), bezala (ADV 55, ADP 55), gabe (ADP 62, ADV 46), asko (DET 74, ADV 39), garbi (ADV 34, ADJ 2), prest (ADV 33, ADJ 3), horregatik (ADV 16, DET 4), gogor (ADV 28, ADJ 5), lehen (NUM 192, ADV 23)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of ADV is 1.137566 (the average of all parts of speech is 2.169707).

The 1st highest number of forms (7) was observed with the lemma “gora”: Goren, gora, gorago, goragoko, gorako, gorantz, goranzkoak.

The 2nd highest number of forms (6) was observed with the lemma “aspaldi”: ASPALDIAN, Aspaldian, Aspaldidanik, aspaldi, aspaldiko, aspalditik.

The 3rd highest number of forms (6) was observed with the lemma “atzo”: atzo, atzodanik, atzoko, atzokoa, atzokoan, atzokoaren.

ADV occurs with 6 features: eu-feat/Case (332; 6% instances), eu-feat/PronType (139; 3% instances), eu-feat/Degree (37; 1% instances), eu-feat/Definite (27; 1% instances), eu-feat/Number (18; 0% instances), eu-feat/VerbForm (1; 0% instances)

ADV occurs with 19 feature-value pairs: Case=Abl, Case=Abs, Case=All, Case=Dat, Case=Erg, Case=Gen, Case=Ine, Case=Lat, Case=Loc, Case=Par, Definite=Def, Definite=Ind, Degree=Abs, Degree=Cmp, Degree=Sup, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, PronType=Int, VerbForm=Part

ADV occurs with 22 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is _ (4674 tokens). Examples: atzo, oso, gaur, orain, ondoren, gero, hala, bertan, beti, ondo

Relations

ADV nodes are attached to their parents using 21 different relations: eu-dep/advmod (4138; 80% instances), eu-dep/nmod (358; 7% instances), eu-dep/advcl (257; 5% instances), eu-dep/conj (91; 2% instances), eu-dep/mwe (91; 2% instances), eu-dep/root (58; 1% instances), eu-dep/mark (25; 0% instances), eu-dep/det (24; 0% instances), eu-dep/compound (20; 0% instances), eu-dep/dep (19; 0% instances), eu-dep/ccomp (17; 0% instances), eu-dep/nsubj (16; 0% instances), eu-dep/xcomp (15; 0% instances), eu-dep/acl (10; 0% instances), eu-dep/cc (10; 0% instances), eu-dep/dobj (10; 0% instances), eu-dep/appos (9; 0% instances), eu-dep/discourse (5; 0% instances), eu-dep/case (3; 0% instances), eu-dep/aux (1; 0% instances), eu-dep/name (1; 0% instances)

Parents of ADV nodes belong to 14 different parts of speech: VERB (4176; 81% instances), NOUN (291; 6% instances), ADJ (256; 5% instances), ADV (231; 4% instances), ROOT (58; 1% instances), CONJ (46; 1% instances), PUNCT (25; 0% instances), X (25; 0% instances), PROPN (21; 0% instances), DET (19; 0% instances), ADP (10; 0% instances), AUX (8; 0% instances), NUM (8; 0% instances), PRON (4; 0% instances)

4497 (87%) ADV nodes are leaves.

483 (9%) ADV nodes have one child.

137 (3%) ADV nodes have two children.

61 (1%) ADV nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a ADV node is 11.

Children of ADV nodes are attached using 22 different relations: eu-dep/mwe (183; 19% instances), eu-dep/nmod (100; 10% instances), eu-dep/punct (100; 10% instances), eu-dep/case (89; 9% instances), eu-dep/advmod (85; 9% instances), eu-dep/cop (82; 8% instances), eu-dep/conj (68; 7% instances), eu-dep/cc (60; 6% instances), eu-dep/nsubj (51; 5% instances), eu-dep/dep (49; 5% instances), eu-dep/compound (39; 4% instances), eu-dep/advcl (28; 3% instances), eu-dep/det (12; 1% instances), eu-dep/csubj (7; 1% instances), eu-dep/dobj (7; 1% instances), eu-dep/acl (6; 1% instances), eu-dep/ccomp (5; 1% instances), eu-dep/name (2; 0% instances), eu-dep/neg (2; 0% instances), eu-dep/xcomp (2; 0% instances), eu-dep/iobj (1; 0% instances), eu-dep/nummod (1; 0% instances)

Children of ADV nodes belong to 14 different parts of speech: ADV (231; 24% instances), CONJ (157; 16% instances), VERB (150; 15% instances), NOUN (140; 14% instances), PUNCT (100; 10% instances), ADP (86; 9% instances), DET (39; 4% instances), ADJ (35; 4% instances), PROPN (20; 2% instances), NUM (8; 1% instances), PRON (8; 1% instances), PART (3; 0% instances), AUX (1; 0% instances), X (1; 0% instances)


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