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advcl: adverbial clause modifier

Adverbial clause modifiers (advcl) are subordinate clauses that are not complements. Also non-complement infinitival or temporal clauses (lauseenvastike, see for instance (see ISK §876) and non-complement participles modifying verbs are marked as advcl. If there is a subordinating conjunction present, it is marked with the dependency type mark.

The dependency type advcl is used also in comparative constructions, most often involving adjectives in the comparative form. The head of the advcl dependency is the comparative wordform, and the dependent is the compared element.

The annotation of comparative and superlative structures is described in Comparatives and superlatives.

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Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish)

This relation is universal.

3156 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as advcl.

2258 instances of advcl (72%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 5.49746514575412.

The following 46 pairs of parts of speech are connected with advcl: VERB-VERB (2141; 68% instances), ADJ-VERB (188; 6% instances), NOUN-VERB (151; 5% instances), ADJ-NOUN (111; 4% instances), ADV-NOUN (70; 2% instances), VERB-ADJ (70; 2% instances), VERB-NOUN (52; 2% instances), ADV-VERB (47; 1% instances), PRON-NOUN (47; 1% instances), ADJ-ADJ (46; 1% instances), ADJ-PRON (30; 1% instances), PRON-VERB (29; 1% instances), VERB-ADV (29; 1% instances), ADV-ADJ (23; 1% instances), ADV-PRON (12; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (12; 0% instances), NOUN-NOUN (12; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (10; 0% instances), ADJ-ADV (9; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (9; 0% instances), ADV-ADV (6; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (6; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (6; 0% instances), VERB-PRON (5; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (3; 0% instances), NUM-VERB (3; 0% instances), PROPN-VERB (3; 0% instances), VERB-SYM (3; 0% instances), ADJ-NUM (2; 0% instances), ADV-PROPN (2; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (2; 0% instances), VERB-AUX (2; 0% instances), X-VERB (2; 0% instances), ADJ-SYM (1; 0% instances), ADV-AUX (1; 0% instances), ADV-NUM (1; 0% instances), AUX-VERB (1; 0% instances), NOUN-SYM (1; 0% instances), NUM-ADJ (1; 0% instances), NUM-NUM (1; 0% instances), PRON-NUM (1; 0% instances), PRON-SYM (1; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (1; 0% instances), PROPN-PROPN (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-VERB (1; 0% instances), SYM-VERB (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish-FTB)

This relation is universal.

3393 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as advcl.

2450 instances of advcl (72%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 4.54347185381668.

The following 41 pairs of parts of speech are connected with advcl: VERB-VERB (2417; 71% instances), ADJ-VERB (194; 6% instances), ADJ-NOUN (110; 3% instances), VERB-ADJ (108; 3% instances), NOUN-VERB (93; 3% instances), VERB-NOUN (69; 2% instances), ADV-NOUN (63; 2% instances), ADJ-ADJ (43; 1% instances), ADJ-PRON (37; 1% instances), ADV-VERB (33; 1% instances), PRON-NOUN (22; 1% instances), ADJ-PROPN (21; 1% instances), ADV-ADJ (19; 1% instances), PRON-VERB (16; 0% instances), DET-VERB (14; 0% instances), ADJ-ADV (13; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (13; 0% instances), NOUN-NOUN (13; 0% instances), DET-NOUN (12; 0% instances), ADV-PROPN (10; 0% instances), VERB-PRON (10; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (9; 0% instances), ADV-ADV (8; 0% instances), DET-PROPN (5; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (5; 0% instances), DET-PRON (4; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (4; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (4; 0% instances), DET-ADJ (3; 0% instances), DET-ADV (3; 0% instances), NUM-VERB (3; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (3; 0% instances), VERB-PROPN (3; 0% instances), PRON-NUM (2; 0% instances), ADJ-NUM (1; 0% instances), INTJ-VERB (1; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (1; 0% instances), NOUN-PROPN (1; 0% instances), PRON-ADV (1; 0% instances), PROPN-VERB (1; 0% instances), VERB-NUM (1; 0% instances).


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