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compound: compound

compound is one of the three UD relations UD for compounding, together with mwe and name.

Nouns should modify appropriate noun in the compound in order to respect the branching structure.

Most uses of attr will be tagged with compound.

Nouns in the izafet construction (e.g. possessive on the final noun) should not get the compound relation, they should instead be labelled nmod:poss, e.g.

Numerical expressions consisting of multiple tokens are annotated using the compound dependency type. The last word of the numerical expression is the governor, and the number dependencies are chained.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Kazakh)

This relation is universal.

74 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as compound.

72 instances of compound (97%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.51351351351351.

The following 10 pairs of parts of speech are connected with compound: NOUN-NOUN (51; 69% instances), NUM-NUM (7; 9% instances), NOUN-NUM (6; 8% instances), NOUN-PROPN (2; 3% instances), PROPN-NOUN (2; 3% instances), PROPN-PROPN (2; 3% instances), ADJ-ADJ (1; 1% instances), ADJ-NOUN (1; 1% instances), ADV-ADV (1; 1% instances), PROPN-NUM (1; 1% instances).


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