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CONJ: coordinating conjunction

Definition

A coordinating conjunction is a word that links words or larger constituents without syntactically subordinating one to the other and expresses a semantic relationship between them.

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

There are 14 CONJ lemmas (0%), 16 CONJ types (0%) and 10146 CONJ tokens (3%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of CONJ is: 17 in number of lemmas, 17 in number of types and 11 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent CONJ lemmas: et, ou, mais, car, ni, and, or, donc, e, und

The 10 most frequent CONJ types: et, ou, mais, car, ni, and, or, donc, e, und

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: ou (CONJ 898, ADV 1), car (CONJ 127, NOUN 4), and (CONJ 24, SCONJ 4, PROPN 3, X 1), or (NOUN 49, CONJ 13, PROPN 1, X 1), donc (ADV 177, CONJ 12), e (CONJ 3, NOUN 1, X 1), y (ADV 291, PRON 245, CONJ 3, X 1), i (X 3, CONJ 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: ou (CONJ 894, PRON 7), car (CONJ 121, NOUN 2), and (CONJ 22, SCONJ 4, PROPN 3, X 1), or (NOUN 46, CONJ 2, X 1, PROPN 1), donc (ADV 174, CONJ 12), e (CONJ 3, X 1, NOUN 1), y (ADV 291, PRON 239, CONJ 3, X 1), ans (NOUN 344, CONJ 1), est (VERB 3512, AUX 1770, NOUN 44, ADJ 3, CONJ 1, X 1), i (X 3, CONJ 1, PRON 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of CONJ is 1.142857 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.307036).

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

The 2nd highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “et”: est, et.

The 3rd highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “car”: car.

CONJ does not occur with any features.

Relations

CONJ nodes are attached to their parents using 9 different relations: fr-dep/cc (10102; 100% instances), fr-dep/conj (12; 0% instances), fr-dep/mark (8; 0% instances), fr-dep/mwe (8; 0% instances), fr-dep/advmod (7; 0% instances), fr-dep/name (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/compound (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/neg (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/nmod (1; 0% instances)

Parents of CONJ nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: NOUN (3986; 39% instances), VERB (3064; 30% instances), PROPN (1530; 15% instances), ADJ (1047; 10% instances), NUM (263; 3% instances), PRON (96; 1% instances), ADV (59; 1% instances), X (30; 0% instances), ADP (29; 0% instances), SYM (15; 0% instances), CONJ (10; 0% instances), DET (8; 0% instances), INTJ (4; 0% instances), AUX (3; 0% instances), PART (2; 0% instances)

9940 (98%) CONJ nodes are leaves.

186 (2%) CONJ nodes have one child.

17 (0%) CONJ nodes have two children.

3 (0%) CONJ nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a CONJ node is 3.

Children of CONJ nodes are attached using 9 different relations: fr-dep/advmod (123; 54% instances), fr-dep/punct (74; 32% instances), fr-dep/mwe (13; 6% instances), fr-dep/conj (12; 5% instances), fr-dep/case (2; 1% instances), fr-dep/nmod (2; 1% instances), fr-dep/cc (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/dep (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/neg (1; 0% instances)

Children of CONJ nodes belong to 8 different parts of speech: ADV (134; 59% instances), PUNCT (74; 32% instances), CONJ (10; 4% instances), ADP (4; 2% instances), NOUN (4; 2% instances), PRON (1; 0% instances), PROPN (1; 0% instances), SCONJ (1; 0% instances)


CONJ in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]