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ADV: adverb

Definition

Adverbs are words that typically modify adjectives, verbs or other adverbs for such categories as time, place, direction or manner.

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

There are 589 ADV lemmas (2%), 593 ADV types (1%) and 13051 ADV tokens (3%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of ADV is: 6 in number of lemmas, 6 in number of types and 9 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent ADV lemmas: plus, pas, très, aussi, alors, ainsi, bien, également, lors, y

The 10 most frequent ADV types: plus, pas, très, aussi, alors, ainsi, bien, également, lors, y

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: plus (ADV 1334, NOUN 12, SCONJ 2), pas (ADV 1041, NOUN 10), ainsi (ADV 376, SCONJ 2), bien (ADV 344, NOUN 35, ADJ 5, INTJ 1), y (ADV 291, PRON 245, CONJ 3, X 1), puis (ADV 247, SCONJ 19), peu (ADV 242, NOUN 4, PRON 3), même (ADJ 280, ADV 223, PRON 1), que (SCONJ 2162, PRON 508, ADV 192, ADP 131), donc (ADV 177, CONJ 12)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: plus (ADV 1290, NOUN 12, SCONJ 2), pas (ADV 1029, NOUN 9, ADP 1), ainsi (ADV 310, SCONJ 2), bien (ADV 309, NOUN 16, ADJ 5), y (ADV 291, PRON 239, CONJ 3, X 1), puis (ADV 207, SCONJ 19), peu (ADV 229, NOUN 4, PRON 3), même (ADJ 245, ADV 209), donc (ADV 174, CONJ 12), moins (ADV 168, NOUN 3)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of ADV is 1.006791 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.307036).

The 1st highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “pas”: -pas, pas.

The 2nd highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “que”: qu’, que.

The 3rd highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “régulièrement”: regulierement, régulièrement.

ADV does not occur with any features.

Relations

ADV nodes are attached to their parents using 22 different relations: fr-dep/advmod (9592; 73% instances), fr-dep/neg (1165; 9% instances), fr-dep/mark (603; 5% instances), fr-dep/case (502; 4% instances), fr-dep/mwe (461; 4% instances), fr-dep/cc (374; 3% instances), fr-dep/det (156; 1% instances), fr-dep/conj (83; 1% instances), fr-dep/root (51; 0% instances), fr-dep/nmod (26; 0% instances), fr-dep/amod (7; 0% instances), fr-dep/compound (7; 0% instances), fr-dep/appos (5; 0% instances), fr-dep/advcl (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/dobj (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/xcomp (3; 0% instances), fr-dep/dep (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/goeswith (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/acl (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/acl:relcl (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/csubj (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/parataxis (1; 0% instances)

Parents of ADV nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: VERB (6569; 50% instances), NOUN (2112; 16% instances), ADJ (2083; 16% instances), ADV (756; 6% instances), ADP (399; 3% instances), NUM (361; 3% instances), PROPN (272; 2% instances), PRON (170; 1% instances), CONJ (134; 1% instances), DET (58; 0% instances), SCONJ (55; 0% instances), ROOT (51; 0% instances), SYM (12; 0% instances), X (8; 0% instances), INTJ (6; 0% instances), AUX (4; 0% instances), PUNCT (1; 0% instances)

10137 (78%) ADV nodes are leaves.

2586 (20%) ADV nodes have one child.

235 (2%) ADV nodes have two children.

93 (1%) ADV nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a ADV node is 14.

Children of ADV nodes are attached using 27 different relations: fr-dep/mwe (1769; 51% instances), fr-dep/advmod (659; 19% instances), fr-dep/case (296; 9% instances), fr-dep/punct (271; 8% instances), fr-dep/nmod (78; 2% instances), fr-dep/det (70; 2% instances), fr-dep/conj (61; 2% instances), fr-dep/cc (57; 2% instances), fr-dep/cop (46; 1% instances), fr-dep/nsubj (46; 1% instances), fr-dep/neg (27; 1% instances), fr-dep/ccomp (22; 1% instances), fr-dep/advcl (15; 0% instances), fr-dep/acl (9; 0% instances), fr-dep/mark (7; 0% instances), fr-dep/acl:relcl (6; 0% instances), fr-dep/amod (5; 0% instances), fr-dep/expl (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/dep (3; 0% instances), fr-dep/dobj (3; 0% instances), fr-dep/name (3; 0% instances), fr-dep/goeswith (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/appos (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/aux (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/iobj (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/parataxis (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/xcomp (1; 0% instances)

Children of ADV nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: ADP (1414; 41% instances), ADV (756; 22% instances), SCONJ (555; 16% instances), PUNCT (271; 8% instances), VERB (115; 3% instances), DET (104; 3% instances), NOUN (104; 3% instances), CONJ (59; 2% instances), PRON (37; 1% instances), ADJ (22; 1% instances), PROPN (11; 0% instances), PART (8; 0% instances), NUM (5; 0% instances), SYM (2; 0% instances), AUX (1; 0% instances)


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