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PUNCT: punctuation

Definition

Punctuation marks are non-alphabetical characters and character groups used to delimit linguistic units in printed text. They are tagged PUNCT regardless of their function.


Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

There are 36 PUNCT lemmas (0%), 36 PUNCT types (0%) and 44353 PUNCT tokens (11%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of PUNCT is: 11 in number of lemmas, 13 in number of types and 4 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent PUNCT lemmas: ,, ., (, ), “, «, », :, !, ?

The 10 most frequent PUNCT types: ,, ., (, ), “, «, », :, !, ?

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: (PUNCT 953, SYM 4), / (PUNCT 120, SYM 1), (PUNCT 31, SYM 2), + (SYM 18, PUNCT 3), x (PUNCT 3, SYM 1, NOUN 1, X 1), * (SYM 3, PUNCT 2), > (PUNCT 1, SYM 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: (PUNCT 953, SYM 4), / (PUNCT 120, SYM 1), (PUNCT 31, SYM 2), + (SYM 18, PUNCT 3), x (PUNCT 3, X 1, SYM 1, NOUN 1), * (SYM 3, PUNCT 2), > (PUNCT 1, SYM 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of PUNCT is 1.000000 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.307036).

The 1st highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “!”: !.

The 2nd highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “””: .

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

PUNCT does not occur with any features.

Relations

PUNCT nodes are attached to their parents using 1 different relations: fr-dep/punct (44353; 100% instances)

Parents of PUNCT nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: VERB (22155; 50% instances), NOUN (12674; 29% instances), PROPN (4815; 11% instances), ADJ (2257; 5% instances), NUM (1081; 2% instances), PRON (423; 1% instances), X (291; 1% instances), ADV (271; 1% instances), SYM (160; 0% instances), CONJ (74; 0% instances), ADP (53; 0% instances), INTJ (42; 0% instances), PUNCT (28; 0% instances), DET (17; 0% instances), PART (7; 0% instances), SCONJ (3; 0% instances), AUX (2; 0% instances)

44324 (100%) PUNCT nodes are leaves.

16 (0%) PUNCT nodes have one child.

13 (0%) PUNCT nodes have two children.

The highest child degree of a PUNCT node is 2.

Children of PUNCT nodes are attached using 9 different relations: fr-dep/punct (28; 67% instances), fr-dep/nmod (4; 10% instances), fr-dep/case (3; 7% instances), fr-dep/conj (2; 5% instances), fr-dep/advmod (1; 2% instances), fr-dep/compound (1; 2% instances), fr-dep/name (1; 2% instances), fr-dep/nsubj (1; 2% instances), fr-dep/nummod (1; 2% instances)

Children of PUNCT nodes belong to 7 different parts of speech: PUNCT (28; 67% instances), PROPN (5; 12% instances), ADP (3; 7% instances), NOUN (2; 5% instances), NUM (2; 5% instances), ADV (1; 2% instances), PRON (1; 2% instances)


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