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mwe: multi-word expression

The multi-word expression (modifier) relation is one of the three relations (compound, mwe, name) for compounding. It is used for certain fixed grammaticized expressions that behave like function words or short adverbials.


Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

This relation is universal.

4037 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as mwe.

4036 instances of mwe (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 1.25712162496904.

The following 84 pairs of parts of speech are connected with mwe: ADV-ADP (1112; 28% instances), ADV-SCONJ (548; 14% instances), ADP-ADP (471; 12% instances), ADP-NOUN (404; 10% instances), ADP-ADV (333; 8% instances), ADP-SCONJ (202; 5% instances), ADP-DET (187; 5% instances), ADP-VERB (126; 3% instances), NOUN-ADP (91; 2% instances), ADP-ADJ (71; 2% instances), ADV-ADV (53; 1% instances), DET-ADV (48; 1% instances), ADJ-SCONJ (45; 1% instances), ADP-PRON (36; 1% instances), VERB-NOUN (28; 1% instances), ADV-DET (23; 1% instances), DET-NOUN (18; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (15; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (14; 0% instances), ADJ-ADP (13; 0% instances), DET-ADP (12; 0% instances), NOUN-NOUN (12; 0% instances), CONJ-ADV (10; 0% instances), SCONJ-SCONJ (10; 0% instances), ADV-ADJ (9; 0% instances), AUX-ADP (8; 0% instances), NOUN-PART (8; 0% instances), ADJ-NOUN (6; 0% instances), PRON-ADV (6; 0% instances), PRON-SCONJ (6; 0% instances), SCONJ-ADV (6; 0% instances), ADV-VERB (5; 0% instances), DET-DET (5; 0% instances), NOUN-VERB (5; 0% instances), PART-VERB (5; 0% instances), PRON-VERB (5; 0% instances), ADV-CONJ (4; 0% instances), SCONJ-ADP (4; 0% instances), SCONJ-PRON (4; 0% instances), ADJ-ADV (3; 0% instances), ADP-CONJ (3; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (3; 0% instances), NOUN-DET (3; 0% instances), PART-PRON (3; 0% instances), PRON-ADP (3; 0% instances), VERB-ADP (3; 0% instances), VERB-DET (3; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (2; 0% instances), AUX-NOUN (2; 0% instances), AUX-VERB (2; 0% instances), PART-ADJ (2; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (2; 0% instances), VERB-ADJ (2; 0% instances), VERB-SCONJ (2; 0% instances), X-X (2; 0% instances), ADJ-CONJ (1; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (1; 0% instances), ADJ-PROPN (1; 0% instances), ADP-NUM (1; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (1; 0% instances), CONJ-ADP (1; 0% instances), CONJ-NOUN (1; 0% instances), CONJ-SCONJ (1; 0% instances), DET-ADJ (1; 0% instances), DET-PRON (1; 0% instances), DET-SCONJ (1; 0% instances), INTJ-ADJ (1; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (1; 0% instances), NOUN-SCONJ (1; 0% instances), NOUN-X (1; 0% instances), NUM-NUM (1; 0% instances), NUM-PART (1; 0% instances), PRON-DET (1; 0% instances), PRON-PART (1; 0% instances), PROPN-ADP (1; 0% instances), PROPN-DET (1; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-ADJ (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-NOUN (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-PART (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-VERB (1; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (1; 0% instances), VERB-PRON (1; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (1; 0% instances).


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