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neg: negation modifier

The negation modifier is the relation between a negation word and the word it modifies. Both elements of double negation are marked as neg. Note that in colloquial French, the first element of the double negation is often not present.


Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

This relation is universal.

2921 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as neg.

2380 instances of neg (81%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.87641218760698.

The following 24 pairs of parts of speech are connected with neg: VERB-PART (1366; 47% instances), VERB-ADV (889; 30% instances), ADJ-PART (132; 5% instances), ADJ-ADV (123; 4% instances), NOUN-ADV (110; 4% instances), NOUN-DET (110; 4% instances), NOUN-PART (108; 4% instances), ADV-ADV (19; 1% instances), PRON-ADV (11; 0% instances), VERB-PRON (9; 0% instances), ADV-PART (8; 0% instances), PRON-PART (8; 0% instances), PROPN-ADV (8; 0% instances), PROPN-PART (6; 0% instances), AUX-ADV (2; 0% instances), AUX-PART (2; 0% instances), NOUN-CONJ (2; 0% instances), VERB-SCONJ (2; 0% instances), ADJ-DET (1; 0% instances), ADP-ADV (1; 0% instances), ADP-PART (1; 0% instances), CONJ-ADV (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-ADV (1; 0% instances), VERB-ADP (1; 0% instances).


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