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det: determiner

A determiner is the relation between the head of a nominal phrase and its determiner.

Les fleurs sont magnifiques \n The flowers are beautiful
det(fleurs, Les)
Quel livre préfères-tu ? \n Which book do you prefer ?
det(livre, Quel)

A possessive determiner is marked with the nmod:poss relation:

Mon ami  \n My friend
nmod:poss(ami, Mon)

Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

This relation is universal.

57324 nodes (14%) are attached to their parents as det.

57324 instances of det (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.13620821994278.

The following 24 pairs of parts of speech are connected with det: fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/DET (50022; 87% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/DET (6117; 11% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/DET (334; 1% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/DET (181; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/ADV (151; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/PROPN (147; 0% instances), fr-pos/NUM-fr-pos/DET (121; 0% instances), fr-pos/X-fr-pos/DET (71; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADV-fr-pos/DET (70; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/DET (37; 0% instances), fr-pos/SYM-fr-pos/DET (21; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/PROPN (15; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/ADP (13; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/ADJ (4; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/PRON (4; 0% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/ADV (4; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADP-fr-pos/DET (3; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/PART (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/PART-fr-pos/DET (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/X (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/NUM-fr-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/PART (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/X (1; 0% instances).

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1	Aviator	Aviator	PROPN	_	_	0	root	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	1	punct	_	_
3	un	un	DET	_	Definite=Ind|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	film	film	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	sur	sur	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	_
6	la	le	DET	_	Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	vie	vie	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	de	de	ADP	_	_	9	case	_	_
9	Hughes	Hughes	PROPN	_	_	7	nmod	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	1	punct	_	_

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1	Mais	mais	CONJ	_	_	9	cc	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	9	punct	_	_
3	le	le	DET	_	Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	SMIC	SMIC	PROPN	_	_	9	nsubj	_	_
5	n'	ne	PART	_	_	9	neg	_	_
6	est	être	VERB	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	pas	pas	ADV	_	_	9	neg	_	_
8	un	un	DET	_	Definite=Ind|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	outil	outil	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	de	de	ADP	_	_	11	case	_	_
11	référence	référence	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	9	punct	_	_

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1	Il	il	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	verra	voir	VERB	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Fut|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	le	le	DET	_	Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	puits	puits	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	dobj	_	_
5	le	le	DET	_	Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	plus	plus	ADV	_	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	profond	profond	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	amod	_	_
8	de	de	ADP	_	_	9	case	_	_
9	France	France	PROPN	_	_	4	nmod	_	_
10	porter	porter	VERB	_	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
11	son	son	DET	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	nom	nom	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	10	dobj	_	_
13	:	:	PUNCT	_	_	2	punct	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	2	punct	_	_


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