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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).


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