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root: root

The root grammatical relation points to the root of the sentence. A fake node ROOT is used as the governor. The ROOT node is indexed with 0, since the indexing of real words in the sentence starts at 1.


Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

This relation is universal.

16448 nodes (4%) are attached to their parents as root.

16448 instances of root (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 7.66950389105058.

The following 12 pairs of parts of speech are connected with root: fr-pos/ROOT-VERB (12091; 74% instances), fr-pos/ROOT-NOUN (2899; 18% instances), fr-pos/ROOT-ADJ (959; 6% instances), fr-pos/ROOT-PRON (193; 1% instances), fr-pos/ROOT-PROPN (180; 1% instances), fr-pos/ROOT-ADV (51; 0% instances), fr-pos/ROOT-INTJ (31; 0% instances), fr-pos/ROOT-NUM (24; 0% instances), fr-pos/ROOT-SYM (10; 0% instances), fr-pos/ROOT-X (7; 0% instances), fr-pos/ROOT-ADP (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/ROOT-DET (1; 0% instances).


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