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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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