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nummod: numeric modifier

A numeric modifier of a noun is any number phrase that serves to modify the meaning of the noun with a quantity, both when the number is written in letters. In Italian this relation is only attested for POS NUM elements, so please do not use it with indefinite quantifiers, which are DET elements.

Corriere Sport da pagina 23 a pagina 26 .
nummod(pagina-4, 23)
nummod(pagina-7, 26)
Due ragazze e un uomo .
nummod(ragazze, Due)
nmod(uomo, un)

Please note that ,in dates, years should be marked as nmod, while the day is a numeric modifier. The month is the head.

Feb 26 , 2014 .
nummod(Feb, 26)
nmod(Feb, 2014)

There are very few cases where nummod is used to mark indices of lists.

a ) trasporti ad hoc \n b ) emanazioni di norme nazionali
nummod(trasporti, a)
nummod(emanazioni , b)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)

This relation is universal.

3887 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as nummod.

2231 instances of nummod (57%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 3.0547980447646.

The following 17 pairs of parts of speech are connected with nummod: it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/NUM (2827; 73% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/NUM (659; 17% instances), it-pos/PROPN-it-pos/NUM (173; 4% instances), it-pos/SYM-it-pos/NUM (84; 2% instances), it-pos/ADJ-it-pos/NUM (41; 1% instances), it-pos/NUM-it-pos/NUM (35; 1% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/X (24; 1% instances), it-pos/PRON-it-pos/NUM (18; 0% instances), it-pos/ADV-it-pos/NUM (12; 0% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/X (5; 0% instances), it-pos/PUNCT-it-pos/NUM (2; 0% instances), it-pos/X-it-pos/X (2; 0% instances), it-pos/AUX-it-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances), it-pos/DET-it-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/SYM (1; 0% instances), it-pos/NUM-it-pos/X (1; 0% instances), it-pos/X-it-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances).

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1	Corriere	Corriere	PROPN	SP	_	0	root	_	_
2	Sport	Sport	PROPN	SP	_	1	name	_	_
3	da	da	ADP	E	_	4	case	_	_
4	pagina	pagina	NOUN	S	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	23	23	NUM	N	NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
6	a	a	ADP	E	_	7	case	_	_
7	pagina	pagina	NOUN	S	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
8	26	26	NUM	N	NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_

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1	L'	il	DET	RD	Definite=Def|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	2	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	usufruttuario	usufruttuario	NOUN	S	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	deve	dovere	AUX	VM	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	inoltre	inoltre	ADV	B	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	dare	dare	VERB	V	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	idonea	idoneo	ADJ	A	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	7	amod	_	_
7	garanzia	garanzia	NOUN	S	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	5	dobj	_	_
8	(	(	PUNCT	FB	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	1179	1179	NUM	N	NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	)	)	PUNCT	FB	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	FS	_	5	punct	_	_

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1	Feb	Feb	PROPN	SP	_	0	root	_	_
2	26	26	NUM	N	NumType=Card	1	nummod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	FF	_	2	punct	_	_
4	2014	2014	NUM	N	NumType=Card	2	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	FS	_	1	punct	_	_


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