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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.

Non è mai stato accertato . 
neg(accertato, Non)
Non in base a l'estensione del terreno . 
neg(base, Non)
Neanche per il celebre Protezione erano state incontrate simili resistenze. 
neg(Protezione, Neanche)
Loro no . 
neg(Loro, no)

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: it-pos/VERB-it-pos/ADV (1465; 76% instances), it-pos/ADJ-it-pos/ADV (196; 10% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/ADV (151; 8% instances), it-pos/ADV-it-pos/ADV (74; 4% instances), it-pos/PRON-it-pos/ADV (28; 1% instances), it-pos/PROPN-it-pos/ADV (10; 1% instances), it-pos/AUX-it-pos/ADV (7; 0% instances), it-pos/CONJ-it-pos/ADV (3; 0% instances), it-pos/NUM-it-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), it-pos/SCONJ-it-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances).

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1	L'	il	DET	RD	Definite=Def|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	2	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	apprendista	apprendista	NOUN	S	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
3	stregone	stregone	NOUN	S	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	FF	_	2	punct	_	_
5	evidentemente	evidentemente	ADV	B	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	FF	_	5	punct	_	_
7	non	non	ADV	BN	PronType=Neg	9	neg	_	_
8	ha	avere	AUX	VA	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	rinunciato	rinunciare	VERB	V	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	FB	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	FS	_	9	punct	_	_

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1	Invece	invece	ADV	B	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	non	non	ADV	BN	PronType=Neg	4	neg	_	_
3	è	essere	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	vero	vero	ADJ	A	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	FS	_	4	punct	_	_

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1	Ma	ma	CONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
2	non	non	ADV	BN	PronType=Neg	5	neg	_	_
3	è	essere	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	il	il	DET	RD	Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	caso	caso	NOUN	S	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	di	di	ADP	E	_	7	mark	_	_
7	pensare	pensare	VERB	V	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl	_	_
8	solo	solo	ADV	B	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	a	a	ADP	E	_	12	case	_	_
10	i	il	DET	RD	Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	grandi	grande	ADJ	A	Number=Plur	12	amod	_	_
12	esempi	esempio	NOUN	S	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
13	storici	storico	ADJ	A	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	12	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	FS	_	5	punct	_	_


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