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acl: clausal modifier of noun

acl stands for finite and non-finite clauses that modify a noun, in contrast to the advcl relation which is used for adverbial clauses that modify a predicate. The head of the acl relation is the noun that is modified, and the dependent is the head of the clause that modifies the noun.

These modifiers include infinitive and participial modifiers (correspond to infmod and partmod in the original Turku Dependency Treebank). Instead, the third possible type of clausal modifiers of nouns, relative clause modifier (acl:relcl), is defined as a subtype of acl.

Minulla oli lupa mennä ulos . \n I had permission to_go out .
nmod:own(oli-2, Minulla-1)
nsubj(oli-2, lupa-3)
acl(lupa-3, mennä-4)
advmod(mennä-4, ulos-5)
punct(oli-2, .-6)

The participial modifier is a participle verb which modifies a noun phrase. Note that the participle can take arguments, for instance a subject, just as any verb. (Also the MA-derivation is treated as a participle in UD Finnish.)

Äidin leipoma kakku oli menestys . \n Mother baked_by cake was success .
nsubj(leipoma-2, Äidin-1)
acl(kakku-3, leipoma-2)
nsubj:cop(menestys-5, kakku-3)
cop(menestys-5, oli-4)
punct(menestys-5, .-6)
Saadut lahjat ilahduttivat lapsia . \n Received presents made_happy children .
acl(lahjat-2, Saadut-1)
nsubj(ilahduttivat-3, lahjat-2)
dobj(ilahduttivat-3, lapsia-4)
punct(ilahduttivat-3, .-5)

Occasionally, participial verb forms can modify a verb as well. These uses include cases that are clearly modifiers, as well as some more complement-like situations. In the complement-like situations, one of the clausal complement types (ccomp, xcomp or xcomp:ds) should be used, whereas modifiers are marked as adverbial clause modifiers (advcl).

Huolestuneena juoksin hänen luokseen . \n Worried I_ran him to .
advcl(juoksin-2, Huolestuneena-1)
nmod(juoksin-2, hänen-3)
case(hänen-3, luokseen-4)
punct(juoksin-2, .-5)
Ksylitoli osoittautui kariesta ehkäiseväksi . \n Xylitol turned_out karies preventing .
nsubj(osoittautui-2, Ksylitoli-1)
xcomp(osoittautui-2, ehkäiseväksi-4)
dobj(ehkäiseväksi-4, kariesta-3)
punct(osoittautui-2, .-5)

Diffs

Turku Dependency Treebank

We do not attempt to distinguish modifiers including secondary predication from other type of modifiers. Therefore, optional predicative like modifiers are attached to the main verb with one of the modifier relations.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish)

This relation is universal. There are 1 language-specific subtypes of acl: acl:relcl.

3263 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as acl.

2895 instances of acl (89%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.508121360711.

The following 12 pairs of parts of speech are connected with acl: fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/VERB (3040; 93% instances), fi-pos/PROPN-fi-pos/VERB (171; 5% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/VERB (21; 1% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/VERB (18; 1% instances), fi-pos/PRON-fi-pos/VERB (3; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADV-fi-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), fi-pos/NUM-fi-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), fi-pos/SYM-fi-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADP-fi-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/X-fi-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances).

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1	Jumituin	jumittua	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	_	_
2	heti	heti	ADV	Adv	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	ensimmäiselle	ensimmäinen	ADJ	Num	Case=All|Number=Sing|NumType=Ord	4	nummod	_	_
4	näkemälleni	nähdä	VERB	V	Case=All|Degree=Pos|Number=Sing|Number[psor]=Sing|PartForm=Agt|Person[psor]=1|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Act	5	acl	_	_
5	seinälle	seinä	NOUN	N	Case=All|Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	Punct	_	1	punct	_	_

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1	Suurin	suuri	ADJ	A	Case=Nom|Degree=Sup|Number=Sing	2	amod	_	_
2	pettymys	pettymys	NOUN	N	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	6	nsubj:cop	_	_
3	oli	olla	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	6	cop	_	_
4	alkulohkoonsa	alku#lohko	NOUN	N	Case=Ill|Number=Sing|Person[psor]=3	5	nmod	_	_
5	jäänyt	jäädä	VERB	V	Case=Nom|Degree=Pos|Number=Sing|PartForm=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Act	6	acl	_	_
6	Espanja	Espanja	PROPN	N	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	Punct	_	6	punct	_	_

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1	Nyt	nyt	ADV	Adv	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	vielä	vielä	ADV	Adv	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	on	olla	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	_	_
4	liian	liian	ADV	Adv	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	kylmä	kylmä	ADJ	A	Case=Nom|Degree=Pos|Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
6	värkätä	värkätä	VERB	V	InfForm=1|Number=Sing|VerbForm=Inf|Voice=Act	5	acl	_	_
7	lämmittämättömässä	lämmittää	ADJ	A	Case=Ine|Degree=Pos|Derivation=Ton|Number=Sing	8	amod	_	_
8	työtilassani	työ#tila	NOUN	N	Case=Ine|Number=Sing|Number[psor]=Sing|Person[psor]=1	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	Punct	_	3	punct	_	_


Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish-FTB)

This relation is universal.

2979 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as acl.

1738 instances of acl (58%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 2.82477341389728.

The following 31 pairs of parts of speech are connected with acl: fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/VERB (2125; 71% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/VERB (319; 11% instances), fi-pos/PROPN-fi-pos/VERB (127; 4% instances), fi-pos/ADV-fi-pos/VERB (114; 4% instances), fi-pos/PRON-fi-pos/VERB (81; 3% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/ADJ (49; 2% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/NOUN (49; 2% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/VERB (30; 1% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/NOUN (11; 0% instances), fi-pos/NUM-fi-pos/VERB (11; 0% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/PRON (7; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADV-fi-pos/ADJ (6; 0% instances), fi-pos/X-fi-pos/VERB (6; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/ADJ (5; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADV-fi-pos/NOUN (5; 0% instances), fi-pos/PROPN-fi-pos/NOUN (5; 0% instances), fi-pos/PROPN-fi-pos/ADJ (4; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/PRON (3; 0% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/ADV (3; 0% instances), fi-pos/PART-fi-pos/VERB (3; 0% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/NOUN (3; 0% instances), fi-pos/DET-fi-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/PROPN (2; 0% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/ADJ (2; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/SCONJ (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/X (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/NUM-fi-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/NUM-fi-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/PRON-fi-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/PRON-fi-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/PRON-fi-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances).

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1	On	olla	VERB	V,Act,Ind,Pres,Sg3	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	_	_
2	se	se	PRON	Pron,Dem,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	expl	_	Alt=1_expl|Missed-Rel=phrm
3	Annillakkii	anni	PROPN	N,Prop,Sg,Ade	Case=Ade|Number=Sing|Style=Coll	1	nmod:own	_	Alt=nmod:own
4	oikeus	oikeus	NOUN	N,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	suaha	saada	VERB	V,Act,InfA,Lat	Case=Lat|InfForm=1|Style=Coll|VerbForm=Inf|Voice=Act	4	acl	_	_
6	mies	mies	NOUN	N,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	5	dobj	_	_
7	jolla	joka	PRON	Pron,Rel,Sg,Ade	Case=Ade|Number=Sing|PronType=Rel	10	nmod	_	_
8	joka	joka	DET	Pron,Qnt	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	paikka	paikka	NOUN	N,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	pelloo	pelata	VERB	V,Act,Ind,Pres,Sg3	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Coll|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	6	acl	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	Pun	_	10	punct	_	_

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1	rippikoulua	rippikoulu	NOUN	N,Sg,Par	Case=Par|Number=Sing	2	dobj	_	_
2	käymätön	käydä	VERB	V,PcpNeg,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|PartForm=Neg|VerbForm=Part	3	acl	_	_
3	nuori	nuori	ADJ	A,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_

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1	Muistatkos	muistaa	VERB	V,Act,Ind,Pres,Sg2,Ko,S	Clitic=Ko,S|Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	_	_
2	sen	se	DET	Pron,Dem,Sg,Gen	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	Maijan	maija	PROPN	N,Prop,Sg,Gen	Case=Gen|Number=Sing	1	dobj	_	_
4	,	,	PUNCT	Pun	_	3	punct	_	_
5	joka	joka	PRON	Pron,Rel,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	asui	asua	VERB	V,Act,Ind,Past,Sg3	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	3	acl	_	_
7	täällä	täällä	ADV	Adv,Dem	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
8	ennen	ennen	ADP	Adp	_	9	case	_	_
9	meitä	me	PRON	Pron,Pers,Pl1,Par	Case=Par|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	nmod	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	Pun	_	9	punct	_	_


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