foreign
: foreign words
We use foreign
to label sequences of foreign words. These are given a linear analysis: the head is the first token in the foreign phrase.
In the Italian Treebank, the only cases attested appear with words POS tagged as X
. The only exception to that happens when foreign proper names are part of a sequence of foreign words (as in the last example).
Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)
This relation is universal.
76 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as foreign
.
76 instances of foreign
(100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 1.76315789473684.
The following 5 pairs of parts of speech are connected with foreign
: X-X (71; 93% instances), PROPN-X (2; 3% instances), NOUN-X (1; 1% instances), X-NUM (1; 1% instances), X-PROPN (1; 1% instances).
foreign in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]