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mark: marker

A marker is the word introducing a finite clause subordinate to another clause. Similar to case, it can be a preposition, a subordinate conjunction or an adverb. Unlike case though, it introduces clauses, not complements. The mark element is a dependent of the subordinate clause head.

Bossi quando parla si copre di ridicolo, dovrebbe bastare questo a punirlo . 
mark(parla, quando)
mark(punirlo, a)
Abbiamo cercato di presentare una interpretazione diversa. 
mark(presentare, di)
Nessuno può essere obbligato se non per disposizione di legge .
mark(disposizione, se)

It is used also on the head of mwe relations when they refer to verbs.

Prima di gettarsi in mare . 
mark(gettarsi, Prima)
mwe(Prima, di)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)

This relation is universal.

6193 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as mark.

6193 instances of mark (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 2.95301146455676.

The following 18 pairs of parts of speech are connected with mark: it-pos/VERB-it-pos/ADP (3142; 51% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/SCONJ (2401; 39% instances), it-pos/ADJ-it-pos/SCONJ (244; 4% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/SCONJ (164; 3% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/ADV (149; 2% instances), it-pos/ADJ-it-pos/ADP (25; 0% instances), it-pos/PRON-it-pos/SCONJ (21; 0% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/ADP (15; 0% instances), it-pos/PROPN-it-pos/SCONJ (10; 0% instances), it-pos/ADV-it-pos/SCONJ (5; 0% instances), it-pos/PRON-it-pos/ADP (5; 0% instances), it-pos/ADJ-it-pos/ADV (4; 0% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/ADV (2; 0% instances), it-pos/NUM-it-pos/SCONJ (2; 0% instances), it-pos/ADV-it-pos/ADP (1; 0% instances), it-pos/ADV-it-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), it-pos/PRON-it-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances).

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1	"	"	PUNCT	FB	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	La	il	DET	RD	Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Pivetti	Pivetti	PROPN	SP	_	5	nsubj	_	_
4	ha	avere	AUX	VA	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	fatto	fare	VERB	V	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	benissimo	bene	ADV	B	Degree=Abs	5	advmod	_	_
7	a	a	ADP	E	_	8	mark	_	_
8	decidere	decidere	VERB	V	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
9	di	di	ADP	E	_	10	case	_	_
10	testa	testa	NOUN	S	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	sua	suo	DET	AP	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	det:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	FS	_	5	punct	_	_

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1	Se	se	SCONJ	CS	_	2	mark	_	_
2	pensi	pensare	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	ADP	E	_	5	case	_	_
4	queste	questo	DET	DD	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	cose	cosa	NOUN	S	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	FF	_	2	punct	_	_
7	se	se	SCONJ	CS	_	9	mark	_	_
8	ci	ci	PRON	PC	Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Clit	9	expl	_	_
9	rifletti	riflettere	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
10	su	su	ADV	B	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	finisci	finire	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	per	per	ADP	E	_	13	mark	_	_
13	sbagliare	sbagliare	VERB	V	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	FS	_	11	punct	_	_

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1	Che	che	SCONJ	CS	_	3	mark	_	_
2	sia	essere	VERB	V	Mood=Sub|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	intelligente	intelligente	ADJ	A	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	FF	_	3	punct	_	_
5	però	però	ADV	B	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	FS	_	3	punct	_	_


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