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neg: negation modifier

The negation modifier is the relation between a negation word and the word it modifies. Modifiers labeled neg depend either on a noun (group “noun dependents”) or on a predicate (group “non-core dependents of clausal predicates”). All the instances of neg relation in Italian apply to POS ADV elements.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)

This relation is universal.

1936 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as neg.

1910 instances of neg (99%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.89566115702479.

The following 10 pairs of parts of speech are connected with neg: VERB-ADV (1465; 76% instances), ADJ-ADV (196; 10% instances), NOUN-ADV (151; 8% instances), ADV-ADV (74; 4% instances), PRON-ADV (28; 1% instances), PROPN-ADV (10; 1% instances), AUX-ADV (7; 0% instances), CONJ-ADV (3; 0% instances), NUM-ADV (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-ADV (1; 0% instances).


neg 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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