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amod: adjectival modifier

Adjectival modifiers (amod) are adjectives and nominal adjectives. A nominal adjective must be followed by an auxiliary な / na to modify a noun. Note that adjectival modifiers with arguments are tagged as “acl”.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Japanese)

This relation is universal.

1296 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as amod.

1289 instances of amod (99%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.07253086419753.

The following 14 pairs of parts of speech are connected with amod: NOUN-DET (864; 67% instances), NOUN-ADJ (368; 28% instances), NOUN-NOUN (14; 1% instances), NUM-ADJ (12; 1% instances), NOUN-PRON (10; 1% instances), NUM-DET (10; 1% instances), ADJ-DET (8; 1% instances), ADJ-ADJ (2; 0% instances), ADV-DET (2; 0% instances), VERB-ADJ (2; 0% instances), NOUN-VERB (1; 0% instances), PRON-ADJ (1; 0% instances), PRON-DET (1; 0% instances), VERB-DET (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Japanese-KTC)

This relation is universal.

1929 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as amod.

1929 instances of amod (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.50855365474339.

The following 5 pairs of parts of speech are connected with amod: NOUN-ADJ (1819; 94% instances), NOUN-NOUN (100; 5% instances), PROPN-ADJ (8; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (1; 0% instances), VERB-ADJ (1; 0% instances).


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