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expl: expletive

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for expl.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Dutch)

This relation is universal.

460 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as expl.

286 instances of expl (62%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 3.25652173913043.

The following 8 pairs of parts of speech are connected with expl: VERB-PRON (360; 78% instances), ADJ-PRON (43; 9% instances), AUX-PRON (20; 4% instances), ADP-PRON (17; 4% instances), NOUN-PRON (15; 3% instances), PROPN-PRON (2; 0% instances), SCONJ-PRON (2; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Dutch-LassySmall)

This relation is universal.

44 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as expl.

22 instances of expl (50%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 2.27272727272727.

The following 4 pairs of parts of speech are connected with expl: VERB-ADV (18; 41% instances), VERB-PRON (12; 27% instances), ADJ-PRON (7; 16% instances), NOUN-PRON (7; 16% instances).


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