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ADV: adverb

Description

Adverbs typically modify verbs to indicate time, place, location or manner. Adverbs of manner, most of which tend to correspond to the English -ly adverbs (effectively, carefully) are constructed through using the particle go with an adjective.

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)

There are 62 ADV lemmas (2%), 66 ADV types (1%) and 462 ADV tokens (2%). Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of ADV is: 8 in number of lemmas, 8 in number of types and 11 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent ADV lemmas: amach, chomh, anois, ansin, isteach, thart, anseo, arís, síos, anuas

The 10 most frequent ADV types: amach, anois, chomh, ansin, isteach, thart, anseo, arís, síos, anuas

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: isteach (ADV 22, ADJ 1), timpeall (ADV 6, NOUN 4), go_leor (NOUN 6, ADV 2, ADJ 2), inné (ADV 1, ADJ 1), iontach (ADJ 6, ADV 1), láithreach (ADJ 3, NOUN 1, ADV 1), réasúnta (ADJ 3, ADV 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: isteach (ADV 22, ADJ 1), timpeall (ADV 6, NOUN 4), go_leor (NOUN 6, ADV 2, ADJ 2), inné (ADV 1, ADJ 1), iontach (ADJ 3, ADV 1), láithreach (ADJ 3, NOUN 1, ADV 1), réasúnta (ADJ 2, ADV 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of ADV is 1.064516 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.449988).

The 1st highest number of forms (4) was observed with the lemma “chomh”: cho, chomh, chó, comh.

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

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

ADV occurs with 2 features: ga-feat/PronType (10; 2% instances), ga-feat/Form (1; 0% instances)

ADV occurs with 2 feature-value pairs: Form=Len, PronType=Int

ADV occurs with 3 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is _ (451 tokens). Examples: amach, anois, chomh, ansin, isteach, thart, anseo, arís, síos, anuas

Relations

ADV nodes are attached to their parents using 13 different relations: ga-dep/advmod (402; 87% instances), ga-dep/xcomp:pred (20; 4% instances), ga-dep/root (12; 3% instances), ga-dep/amod (5; 1% instances), ga-dep/compound:prt (5; 1% instances), ga-dep/conj (4; 1% instances), ga-dep/mark:prt (4; 1% instances), ga-dep/ccomp (3; 1% instances), ga-dep/case (2; 0% instances), ga-dep/compound (2; 0% instances), ga-dep/mark (1; 0% instances), ga-dep/nmod (1; 0% instances), ga-dep/nsubj (1; 0% instances)

Parents of ADV nodes belong to 13 different parts of speech: VERB (217; 47% instances), NOUN (135; 29% instances), ADJ (64; 14% instances), ROOT (12; 3% instances), ADV (10; 2% instances), PROPN (9; 2% instances), ADP (3; 1% instances), NUM (3; 1% instances), PRON (3; 1% instances), SCONJ (3; 1% instances), CONJ (1; 0% instances), PART (1; 0% instances), X (1; 0% instances)

382 (83%) ADV nodes are leaves.

50 (11%) ADV nodes have one child.

20 (4%) ADV nodes have two children.

10 (2%) ADV nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a ADV node is 5.

Children of ADV nodes are attached using 17 different relations: ga-dep/punct (36; 28% instances), ga-dep/nmod (32; 25% instances), ga-dep/advmod (7; 6% instances), ga-dep/cc (7; 6% instances), ga-dep/compound (7; 6% instances), ga-dep/conj (6; 5% instances), ga-dep/csubj:cleft (6; 5% instances), ga-dep/nmod:prep (6; 5% instances), ga-dep/ccomp (5; 4% instances), ga-dep/mark (5; 4% instances), ga-dep/cop (4; 3% instances), ga-dep/advcl (1; 1% instances), ga-dep/case (1; 1% instances), ga-dep/compound:prt (1; 1% instances), ga-dep/det (1; 1% instances), ga-dep/nmod:tmod (1; 1% instances), ga-dep/xcomp:pred (1; 1% instances)

Children of ADV nodes belong to 11 different parts of speech: NOUN (37; 29% instances), PUNCT (36; 28% instances), VERB (15; 12% instances), ADV (10; 8% instances), CONJ (10; 8% instances), ADP (8; 6% instances), PRON (4; 3% instances), SCONJ (3; 2% instances), ADJ (2; 2% instances), DET (1; 1% instances), NUM (1; 1% instances)


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