root
: root
The root grammatical relation points to the root of the sentence, so there’s only one root for each sentence. In Italian the root is usually a verbal predicate, unless we are analysing a nominal phrase, where the root is a noun.
If the main predicate is not present due to ellipsis and there are multiple orphaned dependents, the leftmost dependent should be promoted to the head (root
) position and the other orphans should be attached to it.
Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)
This relation is universal.
13815 nodes (5%) are attached to their parents as root
.
13815 instances of root
(100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child).
Average distance between parent and child is 6.64980094100615.
The following 13 pairs of parts of speech are connected with root
: it-pos/ROOT-VERB (9736; 70% instances), it-pos/ROOT-NOUN (2218; 16% instances), it-pos/ROOT-ADJ (737; 5% instances), it-pos/ROOT-PRON (695; 5% instances), it-pos/ROOT-PROPN (247; 2% instances), it-pos/ROOT-NUM (90; 1% instances), it-pos/ROOT-ADV (73; 1% instances), it-pos/ROOT-INTJ (6; 0% instances), it-pos/ROOT-AUX (4; 0% instances), it-pos/ROOT-X (4; 0% instances), it-pos/ROOT-SCONJ (3; 0% instances), it-pos/ROOT-PUNCT (1; 0% instances), it-pos/ROOT-SYM (1; 0% instances).
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