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PUNCT: punctuation

Definition

Punctuation marks are non-alphabetical characters and character groups used in many languages to delimit linguistic units in printed text.

Examples

Treebank Statistics (UD_Norwegian)

There are 16 PUNCT lemmas (0%), 22 PUNCT types (0%) and 36982 PUNCT tokens (12%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of PUNCT is: 13 in number of lemmas, 14 in number of types and 4 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent PUNCT lemmas: $., $,, $-, $”, $:, $?, $), $(, $!, $;

The 10 most frequent PUNCT types: ., ,, -, :, «, », ?, ), (, “

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas:

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types:

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of PUNCT is 1.375000 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.382778).

The 1st highest number of forms (7) was observed with the lemma “$””: ”, ‘, ), «, », “, ”.

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

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

PUNCT does not occur with any features.

Relations

PUNCT nodes are attached to their parents using 2 different relations: punct (36981; 100% instances), root (1; 0% instances)

Parents of PUNCT nodes belong to 16 different parts of speech: VERB (20679; 56% instances), NOUN (7512; 20% instances), ADJ (3766; 10% instances), PROPN (2763; 7% instances), PRON (584; 2% instances), NUM (462; 1% instances), ADV (358; 1% instances), INTJ (266; 1% instances), X (218; 1% instances), DET (150; 0% instances), ADP (147; 0% instances), PUNCT (39; 0% instances), CONJ (30; 0% instances), AUX (5; 0% instances), SCONJ (2; 0% instances), ROOT (1; 0% instances)

36958 (100%) PUNCT nodes are leaves.

9 (0%) PUNCT nodes have one child.

15 (0%) PUNCT nodes have two children.

The highest child degree of a PUNCT node is 2.

Children of PUNCT nodes are attached using 1 different relations: punct (39; 100% instances)

Children of PUNCT nodes belong to 1 different parts of speech: PUNCT (39; 100% instances)


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