PUNCT

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`PUNCT`: punctuation

Definition

Punctuation marks are non-alphabetical characters and character groups used to delimit linguistic units in printed text.

Punctuation is not taken to include logograms such as $, %, and §, which are instead tagged as SYM.

Examples

Period: .
Comma: ,
Parentheses: (, )

Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)

There are 26 PUNCT lemmas (0%), 26 PUNCT types (0%) and 33299 PUNCT tokens (11%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of PUNCT is: 13 in number of lemmas, 14 in number of types and 4 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent PUNCT lemmas: ,, ., “, ?, ), (, :, -, ;, [

The 10 most frequent PUNCT types: ,, ., “, ?, ), (, :, -, ;, [

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: - (PUNCT 771, SYM 2)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: ” (PUNCT 2678, NOUN 2), - (PUNCT 772, SYM 2), ’ (PUNCT 113, NOUN 1)

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- PUNCT 2678: ” Lei ha la tipica camminata da spia ” .
- NOUN 2: A l’ ora di punta ci sono treni ogni 2 ‘ 30 ” in entrambe le direzioni , l’ intero tragitto impiega un periodo che varia da i 61 a i 64 minuti .
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- PUNCT 772: ” Ma no , non è così - replica Ante - .
- SYM 2: Sì , li ho visti giocare in tv con il Paris St - Germain , ma non ho scoperto niente di nuovo .
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- PUNCT 113: ’ La causa di gli albanesi è la mia ’ .
- NOUN 1: A l’ ora di punta ci sono treni ogni 2 ’ 30 “ in entrambe le direzioni , l’ intero tragitto impiega un periodo che varia da i 61 a i 64 minuti .

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of PUNCT is 1.000000 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.488836).

The 1st highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “-”: -, _.

The 2nd highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “.”: ., ….

The 3rd highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “!”: !.

PUNCT does not occur with any features.

Relations

PUNCT nodes are attached to their parents using 4 different relations: it-dep/punct (33295; 100% instances), it-dep/nmod (2; 0% instances), it-dep/conj (1; 0% instances), it-dep/root (1; 0% instances)

Parents of PUNCT nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: VERB (15377; 46% instances), NOUN (9654; 29% instances), PROPN (2831; 9% instances), NUM (1696; 5% instances), ADJ (1681; 5% instances), PRON (1132; 3% instances), ADV (597; 2% instances), CONJ (77; 0% instances), X (72; 0% instances), PUNCT (57; 0% instances), INTJ (56; 0% instances), AUX (42; 0% instances), SCONJ (15; 0% instances), DET (5; 0% instances), ADP (3; 0% instances), SYM (3; 0% instances), ROOT (1; 0% instances)

33224 (100%) PUNCT nodes are leaves.

70 (0%) PUNCT nodes have one child.

3 (0%) PUNCT nodes have two children.

2 (0%) PUNCT nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a PUNCT node is 3.

Children of PUNCT nodes are attached using 11 different relations: it-dep/punct (57; 70% instances), it-dep/det (6; 7% instances), it-dep/advcl (4; 5% instances), it-dep/conj (4; 5% instances), it-dep/name (3; 4% instances), it-dep/nmod (2; 2% instances), it-dep/nummod (2; 2% instances), it-dep/amod (1; 1% instances), it-dep/case (1; 1% instances), it-dep/mwe (1; 1% instances), it-dep/nsubj (1; 1% instances)

Children of PUNCT nodes belong to 7 different parts of speech: PUNCT (57; 70% instances), NOUN (7; 9% instances), DET (6; 7% instances), PROPN (4; 5% instances), VERB (4; 5% instances), NUM (3; 4% instances), ADJ (1; 1% instances)