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amod: adjectival modifier

Nouns may take adjectival modifiers, which are marked with the dependency type amod. It is also possible for an adjective to take another adjective as a modifier. (These adjectival modifiers are generally expressed with -ly adverbs in English.)


Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish)

This relation is universal.

8865 nodes (5%) are attached to their parents as amod.

8853 instances of amod (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.25956006768189.

The following 26 pairs of parts of speech are connected with amod: NOUN-ADJ (8338; 94% instances), ADJ-ADJ (205; 2% instances), PROPN-ADJ (164; 2% instances), NOUN-VERB (29; 0% instances), ADV-ADJ (22; 0% instances), NOUN-NOUN (19; 0% instances), X-ADJ (17; 0% instances), NUM-ADJ (12; 0% instances), VERB-ADJ (12; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (10; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (8; 0% instances), ADV-ADV (5; 0% instances), ADJ-ADV (4; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (4; 0% instances), NOUN-PROPN (2; 0% instances), NOUN-X (2; 0% instances), PROPN-PROPN (2; 0% instances), SYM-ADJ (2; 0% instances), ADJ-VERB (1; 0% instances), ADP-ADJ (1; 0% instances), INTJ-ADJ (1; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (1; 0% instances), NOUN-SYM (1; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (1; 0% instances), PRON-ADV (1; 0% instances), PROPN-ADV (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish-FTB)

This relation is universal.

6894 nodes (4%) are attached to their parents as amod.

6793 instances of amod (99%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.17130838410212.

The following 21 pairs of parts of speech are connected with amod: NOUN-ADJ (5813; 84% instances), ADJ-ADJ (454; 7% instances), NOUN-DET (204; 3% instances), PROPN-ADJ (137; 2% instances), ADV-ADJ (79; 1% instances), NUM-ADJ (72; 1% instances), PRON-ADJ (32; 0% instances), ADJ-DET (31; 0% instances), VERB-ADJ (25; 0% instances), X-X (21; 0% instances), X-ADJ (6; 0% instances), PROPN-X (5; 0% instances), DET-ADJ (4; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (2; 0% instances), NOUN-PROPN (2; 0% instances), PART-ADJ (2; 0% instances), ADP-ADJ (1; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (1; 0% instances), NUM-DET (1; 0% instances), PROPN-DET (1; 0% instances), VERB-DET (1; 0% instances).


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