aux
: auxiliary
In UD Finnish, only a closed list of verbs can act as auxiliaries, including the main modal verbs (see ISK §1562) and in addition the verbs olla “to be” and aikoa “to be going to”.
The full list of auxiliaries is as follows:
- täytyä “must”
- pitää “have to”
- tarvita “need”
- joutua “have to”
- voida “be able to, can”
- saattaa “may”
- taitaa “be+probably, may”
- mahtaa “be+probably, may”
- olla “be”
- aikoa “be going to”
Examples
References
- http://scripta.kotus.fi/visk/sisallys.php?p=1562 (in Finnish)
Diffs
In FinnTreeBank (FI_FTB), a wide list of verbs which are
modal or otherwise abstract by nature have been counted
among the auxiliaries. Also a limited set of verbal
compound constructions has been annotated using the
relation aux
. See the full lists in
FTB Annotation Manual: 16.2 Auxiliary verb.
Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish)
This relation is universal.
2899 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as aux
.
2883 instances of aux
(99%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 1.54398068299414.
The following 9 pairs of parts of speech are connected with aux
: VERB-AUX (2690; 93% instances), ADJ-AUX (92; 3% instances), NOUN-AUX (77; 3% instances), ADV-AUX (26; 1% instances), PRON-AUX (7; 0% instances), NUM-AUX (4; 0% instances), ADP-AUX (1; 0% instances), AUX-AUX (1; 0% instances), X-AUX (1; 0% instances).
Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish-FTB)
This relation is universal.
4693 nodes (3%) are attached to their parents as aux
.
4638 instances of aux
(99%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 1.56658853611762.
The following 10 pairs of parts of speech are connected with aux
: VERB-VERB (4408; 94% instances), ADJ-VERB (150; 3% instances), NOUN-VERB (114; 2% instances), PRON-VERB (9; 0% instances), PROPN-VERB (6; 0% instances), X-VERB (2; 0% instances), NUM-VERB (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-VERB (1; 0% instances), VERB-NOUN (1; 0% instances), X-X (1; 0% instances).
aux in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]