This is part of archived UD v1 documentation. See http://universaldependencies.org/ for the current version.
home no/pos issue tracker

ADV: adverb

Definition

Adverbs are words that typically modify adjectives, verbs or other adverbs for such categories as time, place, direction or manner.

Examples

Treebank Statistics (UD_Norwegian)

There are 244 ADV lemmas (1%), 259 ADV types (1%) and 12668 ADV tokens (4%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of ADV is: 7 in number of lemmas, 7 in number of types and 9 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent ADV lemmas: ikke, også, så, nå, bare, her, da, selv, hvor, nok

The 10 most frequent ADV types: ikke, også, så, nå, bare, her, da, selv, hvor, nok

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: (ADV 832, CONJ 90, SCONJ 17, VERB 2), (ADV 605, VERB 38), bare (ADV 492, SCONJ 5, ADJ 1), da (SCONJ 335, ADV 310, X 1), selv (ADV 302, DET 199), jo (ADV 247, INTJ 12), slik (ADV 228, DET 190), der (SCONJ 238, ADV 222), like (ADV 164, VERB 62, NOUN 5, X 1, ADJ 1), for (ADP 3710, ADV 148, CONJ 99, X 7)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: (ADV 737, VERB 91, CONJ 60, SCONJ 16), (ADV 463, VERB 19), bare (ADV 467, SCONJ 5, ADJ 1), da (SCONJ 236, ADV 208, X 1), selv (ADV 226, DET 197), jo (ADV 235, INTJ 1), slik (ADV 191, DET 71), der (SCONJ 233, ADV 171, PRON 1), like (ADV 143, ADJ 14, VERB 5, NOUN 2, X 1), for (ADP 3543, ADV 143, CONJ 44, X 7)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of ADV is 1.061475 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.382778).

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

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

The 3rd highest number of forms (2) was observed with the lemma “dessverre”: dessverre, desverre.

ADV occurs with 1 features: Gender (1; 0% instances)

ADV occurs with 1 feature-value pairs: Gender=Masc

ADV occurs with 2 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is _ (12667 tokens). Examples: ikke, også, så, nå, bare, her, da, selv, hvor, nok

Relations

ADV nodes are attached to their parents using 19 different relations: advmod (9621; 76% instances), neg (2682; 21% instances), root (169; 1% instances), xcomp (63; 0% instances), conj (44; 0% instances), acl:relcl (18; 0% instances), acl (12; 0% instances), ccomp (11; 0% instances), dobj (11; 0% instances), expl (7; 0% instances), remnant (7; 0% instances), nmod (5; 0% instances), nsubj (5; 0% instances), cc (4; 0% instances), appos (2; 0% instances), compound (2; 0% instances), csubj (2; 0% instances), det (2; 0% instances), parataxis (1; 0% instances)

Parents of ADV nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: VERB (7088; 56% instances), ADJ (2387; 19% instances), NOUN (1536; 12% instances), ADV (348; 3% instances), SCONJ (264; 2% instances), PRON (245; 2% instances), PROPN (229; 2% instances), NUM (178; 1% instances), ROOT (169; 1% instances), DET (123; 1% instances), ADP (86; 1% instances), INTJ (10; 0% instances), X (3; 0% instances), AUX (1; 0% instances), CONJ (1; 0% instances)

11216 (89%) ADV nodes are leaves.

1055 (8%) ADV nodes have one child.

165 (1%) ADV nodes have two children.

232 (2%) ADV nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a ADV node is 10.

Children of ADV nodes are attached using 23 different relations: nmod (412; 17% instances), advmod (358; 15% instances), punct (358; 15% instances), advcl (332; 14% instances), cop (206; 8% instances), case (142; 6% instances), nsubj (121; 5% instances), cc (107; 4% instances), neg (96; 4% instances), conj (87; 4% instances), expl (84; 3% instances), appos (48; 2% instances), aux (29; 1% instances), mark (28; 1% instances), csubj (17; 1% instances), parataxis (9; 0% instances), discourse (6; 0% instances), remnant (5; 0% instances), xcomp (3; 0% instances), acl (2; 0% instances), ccomp (2; 0% instances), compound (1; 0% instances), dobj (1; 0% instances)

Children of ADV nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: VERB (647; 26% instances), PUNCT (358; 15% instances), ADV (348; 14% instances), NOUN (269; 11% instances), ADJ (214; 9% instances), ADP (205; 8% instances), PRON (166; 7% instances), CONJ (108; 4% instances), PROPN (65; 3% instances), AUX (29; 1% instances), SCONJ (25; 1% instances), DET (6; 0% instances), INTJ (6; 0% instances), NUM (5; 0% instances), PART (3; 0% instances)


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