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PUNCT: punctuation

Description

Punctuation marks are non-alphabetical characters and character groups used to delimit linguistic units in printed text.

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Irish)

There are 17 PUNCT lemmas (0%), 17 PUNCT types (0%) and 2518 PUNCT tokens (11%). Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of PUNCT is: 13 in number of lemmas, 13 in number of types and 3 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent PUNCT lemmas: ., ,, ‘, -, (, ), :, ;, ?, !

The 10 most frequent PUNCT types: ., ,, ‘, -, (, ), :, ;, ?, !

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas:

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types:

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of PUNCT is 1.000000 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.449988).

The 1st highest number of forms (2) 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 4 different relations: ga-dep/punct (2509; 100% instances), ga-dep/cc (5; 0% instances), ga-dep/root (3; 0% instances), ga-dep/mark (1; 0% instances)

Parents of PUNCT nodes belong to 16 different parts of speech: VERB (1030; 41% instances), NOUN (674; 27% instances), PROPN (139; 6% instances), CONJ (137; 5% instances), ADJ (117; 5% instances), SCONJ (93; 4% instances), X (75; 3% instances), ADP (70; 3% instances), PRON (67; 3% instances), NUM (41; 2% instances), ADV (36; 1% instances), PART (18; 1% instances), DET (8; 0% instances), PUNCT (8; 0% instances), ROOT (3; 0% instances), SYM (2; 0% instances)

2503 (99%) PUNCT nodes are leaves.

14 (1%) PUNCT nodes have one child.

1 (0%) PUNCT nodes have two children.

The highest child degree of a PUNCT node is 2.

Children of PUNCT nodes are attached using 5 different relations: ga-dep/punct (8; 50% instances), ga-dep/nmod (4; 25% instances), ga-dep/ccomp (2; 13% instances), ga-dep/case (1; 6% instances), ga-dep/compound (1; 6% instances)

Children of PUNCT nodes belong to 5 different parts of speech: PUNCT (8; 50% instances), NOUN (3; 19% instances), ADP (2; 13% instances), VERB (2; 13% instances), PROPN (1; 6% instances)


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