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auxpass: passive auxiliary

A passive auxiliary of a clause is a non-main verb of the clause which contains the passive information.

Kennedy fut assassiné \n Kennedy was murdered
auxpass(assassiné, fut)

Other auxiliaries associated with the same main verb are not labeled auxpass but aux since they do not themselves indicate passive voice.

Kennedy a été assassiné \n Kennedy has been murdered
auxpass(assassiné, été)
aux(assassiné, a)

Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

This relation is universal.

2812 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as auxpass.

2810 instances of auxpass (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.24288762446657.

The following 4 pairs of parts of speech are connected with auxpass: fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/AUX (2804; 100% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/AUX (4; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/AUX (3; 0% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/AUX (1; 0% instances).

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1	Il	il	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubjpass	_	_
2	est	être	AUX	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	auxpass	_	_
3	fêté	fêter	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	le	le	DET	_	Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	22	22	NUM	_	_	6	nummod	_	_
6	mai	mai	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	3	punct	_	_

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1	Il	il	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubjpass	_	_
2	a	avoir	AUX	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	été	être	AUX	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	4	auxpass	_	_
4	intendant	intendant	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	de	de	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	_
6	la	le	DET	_	Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Guadeloupe	Guadeloupe	PROPN	_	_	4	nmod	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	4	punct	_	_
9	puis	puis	ADV	_	_	12	advmod	_	_
10	de	de	ADP	_	_	12	case	_	_
11	la	le	DET	_	Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Martinique	Martinique	PROPN	_	_	4	nmod	_	_
13	jusqu'	jusque	ADP	_	_	15	case	_	_
14	en	en	ADP	_	_	15	case	_	_
15	1790	1790	NUM	_	_	4	nmod	_	_
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	4	punct	_	_

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1	La	le	DET	_	Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	compagnie	compagnie	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	5	nsubjpass	_	_
3	a	avoir	AUX	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	été	être	AUX	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	auxpass	_	_
5	publicly-traded	publicly-traded	ADJ	_	_	0	root	_	_
6	depuis	depuis	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	_
7	1992	1992	NUM	_	_	5	nmod	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	5	punct	_	_


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