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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]
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