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cop: copula

Copular clauses receive a special treatment in the SD scheme. The predicative acts as the head word of the clause, and the copular verb depends on it using a cop (copula) dependency. The only copular verb in Finnish is olla “be” (see ISK §891).

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Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish)

This relation is universal.

3279 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as cop.

3093 instances of cop (94%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 2.23970722781336.

The following 10 pairs of parts of speech are connected with cop: ADJ-VERB (1337; 41% instances), NOUN-VERB (1301; 40% instances), ADV-VERB (243; 7% instances), PRON-VERB (132; 4% instances), VERB-VERB (107; 3% instances), PROPN-VERB (80; 2% instances), NUM-VERB (56; 2% instances), SYM-VERB (15; 0% instances), ADP-VERB (4; 0% instances), X-VERB (4; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish-FTB)

This relation is universal.

3789 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as cop.

3473 instances of cop (92%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 2.0765373449459.

The following 11 pairs of parts of speech are connected with cop: ADJ-VERB (1875; 49% instances), NOUN-VERB (1462; 39% instances), VERB-VERB (170; 4% instances), PRON-VERB (166; 4% instances), PROPN-VERB (62; 2% instances), NUM-VERB (34; 1% instances), X-VERB (7; 0% instances), ADV-VERB (4; 0% instances), INTJ-VERB (4; 0% instances), PART-VERB (3; 0% instances), NOUN-NOUN (2; 0% instances).


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