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aux: auxiliary

An auxiliary of a clause is a non-main verb of the clause, e.g., a modal auxiliary, or a form of ha “have” or være “be” in a periphrastic tense. Exception: Auxiliary verb used to construct the passive voice is not labeled aux but auxpass.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Norwegian)

This relation is universal.

8858 nodes (3%) are attached to their parents as aux.

8835 instances of aux (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.804696319711.

The following 9 pairs of parts of speech are connected with aux: VERB-AUX (8143; 92% instances), ADJ-AUX (361; 4% instances), NOUN-AUX (252; 3% instances), ADP-AUX (32; 0% instances), ADV-AUX (29; 0% instances), PRON-AUX (21; 0% instances), PROPN-AUX (10; 0% instances), DET-AUX (8; 0% instances), NUM-AUX (2; 0% instances).


aux in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]
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