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nmod:poss: possessive nominal modifier

The relation nmod:poss is used for a possessive nominal modifier expressed by a possessive determiner (mon, ton, son, ma, ta, sa, mes, tes, ses, notre, votre, leur, nos, vos, leurs).


Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

This relation is a language-specific subtype of nmod.

4372 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as nmod:poss.

4368 instances of nmod:poss (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.11710887465691.

The following 11 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nmod:poss: NOUN-DET (4308; 99% instances), PROPN-DET (41; 1% instances), PROPN-PROPN (6; 0% instances), ADJ-DET (5; 0% instances), NOUN-PROPN (3; 0% instances), VERB-DET (3; 0% instances), X-DET (2; 0% instances), ADP-DET (1; 0% instances), DET-DET (1; 0% instances), NOUN-NOUN (1; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (1; 0% instances).


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