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compound:nn: noun compound modifier

The dependency type compound:nn, which stands for noun compound modifier has two basic uses in the Finnish UD scheme.

First, In Finnish, compounds are generally written as a single word, but for instance some compounds involving foreign words or proper names are written separately using a dash. These are annotated using compound:nn.

Da Vinci -merkkinen luomiväri \n Da Vinci -make eyeshadow
name(Vinci-2, Da-1)
compound:nn(-merkkinen-3, Vinci-2)
amod(luomiväri-4, -merkkinen-3)

The second use of the type compound:nn is to mark appellation modifiers, which are modifying, non-inflecting noun phrases that generally express profession, rank, position, assignment or other such classifiable property (see ISK §1062). The phenomenon is closely related to that of apposition, and the distinction between the two is described in Appositions and appellation modifiers.

Professori Matti Tamminen pitää puheen . \n Professor Matti Tamminen gives a_speech .
compound:nn(Tamminen-3, Professori-1)
name(Tamminen-3, Matti-2)
nsubj(pitää-4, Tamminen-3)
dobj(pitää-4, puheen-5)
punct(pitää-4, .-6)

In written Finnish, erroneously writing compounds as two words is a common mistake (e.g. ruoka pöytä). While these cases were annotated as nn in the TDT corpus, in UD Finnish goeswith is used instead.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish)

This relation is a language-specific subtype of compound. There are also 1 other language-specific subtypes of compound: compound:prt.

1088 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as compound:nn.

1073 instances of compound:nn (99%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.45404411764706.

The following 25 pairs of parts of speech are connected with compound:nn: fi-pos/PROPN-fi-pos/NOUN (659; 61% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/PROPN (178; 16% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/NOUN (142; 13% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/X (28; 3% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/VERB (12; 1% instances), fi-pos/PROPN-fi-pos/PROPN (12; 1% instances), fi-pos/SYM-fi-pos/NOUN (12; 1% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/SYM (8; 1% instances), fi-pos/PROPN-fi-pos/ADJ (6; 1% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/PROPN (5; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/NOUN (4; 0% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/ADV (3; 0% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/PUNCT (3; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/SYM (2; 0% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/ADJ (2; 0% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances), fi-pos/PROPN-fi-pos/X (2; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/X (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/CONJ-fi-pos/CONJ (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/PRON-fi-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/X-fi-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/X-fi-pos/X (1; 0% instances).

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1	Neuvoston	neuvosto	NOUN	N	Case=Gen|Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
2	puolesta	puolesta	ADP	Adp	AdpType=Post	1	case	_	_
3	I.	I.	PROPN	N	_	0	root	_	_
4	YATES	YATES	PROPN	N	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	3	name	_	_
5	Puheenjohtaja	puheen#johtaja	NOUN	N	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	3	compound:nn	_	_

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1	Ensimmäinen	ensimmäinen	ADJ	Num	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|NumType=Ord	3	nummod	_	_
2	Windows	Windows	PROPN	N	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	3	compound:nn	_	_
3	versio	versio	NOUN	N	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	5	dobj	_	_
4	ohjelmasta	ohjelma	NOUN	N	Case=Ela|Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
5	julkaistiin	julkaista	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	1994	1994	NUM	Num	NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	Punct	_	5	punct	_	_

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1	Toyotan	Toyota	PROPN	N	Case=Gen|Number=Sing	4	nmod:poss	_	_
2	Formula	formula	NOUN	N	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	4	compound:nn	_	_
3	1	1	NUM	Num	NumType=Card	2	name	_	_
4	-tallilla	talli	NOUN	N	Case=Ade|Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
5	kaksi	kaksi	NUM	Num	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	vuotta	vuosi	NOUN	N	Case=Par|Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
7	aikaa	aika	NOUN	N	Case=Par|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
8	menestyä	menestyä	VERB	V	InfForm=1|Number=Sing|VerbForm=Inf|Voice=Act	7	acl	_	_


Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish-FTB)

This relation is a language-specific subtype of compound. There are also 1 other language-specific subtypes of compound: compound:prt.

361 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as compound:nn.

361 instances of compound:nn (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.1606648199446.

The following 8 pairs of parts of speech are connected with compound:nn: fi-pos/PROPN-fi-pos/NOUN (271; 75% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/NOUN (58; 16% instances), fi-pos/NUM-fi-pos/NOUN (13; 4% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/PROPN (11; 3% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/NOUN (3; 1% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/X (3; 1% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), fi-pos/X-fi-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances).

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1	ritarinarvo	ritarinarvo	NOUN	N,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	kuningatar	kuningatar	NOUN	N,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	3	compound:nn	_	Alt=compound:nn
3	Elisabethiltä	elisabeth	PROPN	N,Prop,Sg,Abl	Case=Abl|Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_

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1	Loistavaa	loistaa	VERB	V,Act,PcpVa,Sg,Par	Case=Par|Number=Sing|PartForm=Pres|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Act	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	Pun	_	1	punct	_	_
3	aivan	aivan	PART	Pcle	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	nappi	nappi	NOUN	N,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	5	compound:nn	_	Alt=compound:nn
5	suoritus	suoritus	NOUN	N,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	.	.	PUNCT	Pun	_	5	punct	_	_

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1	Huoltoa	huolto	NOUN	N,Sg,Par	Case=Par|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	Viljamaalla	viljamaa	PROPN	N,Prop,Sg,Ade	Case=Ade|Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
3	erikoiskoe	erikoiskoe	NOUN	N,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	4	compound:nn	_	Alt=compound:nn
4	20:n	20	NUM	Num,Card,Sg,Gen	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	_
5	jälkeen	jälkeen	ADP	Adp	_	4	case	_	_
6	.	.	PUNCT	Pun	_	5	punct	_	_