mwe
: multi-word expression
The multi-word expression (modifier) relation is one of the three relations (compound
, mwe
, name
) for compounding. It is used for certain fixed grammaticized expressions that behave like function words or short adverbials. Any grammatical class can take part in a multiword expression, but usually they are a combination of adverbials and prepositions (usually a or di).
Some of the most common mwe
for Italian are listed in the examples below.
Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)
This relation is universal.
984 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as mwe
.
984 instances of mwe
(100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 1.0619918699187.
The following 42 pairs of parts of speech are connected with mwe
: ADV-ADP (488; 50% instances), ADP-ADP (167; 17% instances), ADV-SCONJ (84; 9% instances), ADP-ADV (59; 6% instances), NOUN-ADP (42; 4% instances), ADP-SCONJ (32; 3% instances), NUM-NUM (17; 2% instances), ADP-NOUN (12; 1% instances), VERB-SCONJ (10; 1% instances), NUM-X (6; 1% instances), ADV-ADV (5; 1% instances), PROPN-ADP (5; 1% instances), VERB-NOUN (5; 1% instances), ADP-DET (4; 0% instances), ADP-PRON (4; 0% instances), PRON-ADV (4; 0% instances), ADV-CONJ (3; 0% instances), NOUN-NOUN (3; 0% instances), NOUN-SCONJ (3; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (3; 0% instances), SCONJ-SCONJ (3; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (2; 0% instances), ADJ-SCONJ (2; 0% instances), ADP-VERB (2; 0% instances), ADV-NOUN (2; 0% instances), ADV-DET (1; 0% instances), ADV-PRON (1; 0% instances), ADV-VERB (1; 0% instances), CONJ-ADV (1; 0% instances), CONJ-CONJ (1; 0% instances), INTJ-SCONJ (1; 0% instances), NOUN-VERB (1; 0% instances), NUM-SYM (1; 0% instances), PRON-ADP (1; 0% instances), PRON-DET (1; 0% instances), PRON-SCONJ (1; 0% instances), PUNCT-NOUN (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-ADP (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-ADV (1; 0% instances), VERB-ADP (1; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (1; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (1; 0% instances).
mwe in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]