auxpass
: passive auxiliary
A passive auxiliary (essere/venire) of a clause is a non-main verb of the clause which conveys information about the passive voice.
Sometimes the verb essere to be can be substituted by other verbs that assume the same function, like andare (to go) and venire (to come).
Andare is used both to express a very strong need (see the first example below), or for passive progressive forms with an impersonal value.
Venire is used as auxpass
to clearly express the passive information when the main verb is ambiguous: some verbs, like lavare to wash, with essere as auxiliary might seem a description of a property rather than passice forms, while with venire the passive construction is evident (la finestra è lavata vs * la finestra viene lavata [da qualcuno]). Note in fact that *venire is only used for simple tenses, because in past tenses the passive action is expressed by the participle (see the next section for how to annotate it).
Note that periphrastic tenses in passive constructions are marked as follows, by distinguishing between the passive auxiliary (i.e. that immediately preceding the verbal head) which is marked as auxpass
and the tense auxiliaries (the preceding ones) which are marked as aux.
Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)
This relation is universal.
2210 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as auxpass
.
2207 instances of auxpass
(100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 1.16244343891403.
The following 6 pairs of parts of speech are connected with auxpass
: VERB-AUX (2195; 99% instances), ADJ-AUX (7; 0% instances), NOUN-AUX (5; 0% instances), PRON-AUX (1; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (1; 0% instances), X-AUX (1; 0% instances).
auxpass in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]