aux
: auxiliary
An auxiliary of a clause is a non-main verb of the clause, e.g., a modal auxiliary, or a form of ser, fazer or ter in a periphrastic tense.
Note that in Portuguese, verbs as “começar”, “acabar”, “terminar” are analysed as aspectualizers of the main verb (following ROCIO, S. Começar e acabar: aspestualizadores em processo de gramaticalização, then they should be tagged as aux
.
Exception: Auxiliary verb used to construct the passive
voice is not labeled aux
but auxpass.
Treebank Statistics (UD_Portuguese)
This relation is universal.
848 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as aux
.
842 instances of aux
(99%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 1.70283018867925.
The following 7 pairs of parts of speech are connected with aux
: VERB-VERB (422; 50% instances), VERB-AUX (420; 50% instances), VERB-PRON (2; 0% instances), NOUN-AUX (1; 0% instances), PRON-PROPN (1; 0% instances), VERB-ADP (1; 0% instances), VERB-NOUN (1; 0% instances).
Treebank Statistics (UD_Portuguese-Bosque)
This relation is universal.
2443 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as aux
.
2426 instances of aux
(99%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 1.86819484240688.
The following 9 pairs of parts of speech are connected with aux
: VERB-AUX (2272; 93% instances), NOUN-AUX (83; 3% instances), ADJ-AUX (64; 3% instances), PRON-AUX (13; 1% instances), NUM-AUX (4; 0% instances), ADV-AUX (3; 0% instances), PROPN-AUX (2; 0% instances), ADP-AUX (1; 0% instances), DET-AUX (1; 0% instances).
Treebank Statistics (UD_Portuguese-BR)
This relation is universal.
2806 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as aux
.
2800 instances of aux
(100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 1.52031361368496.
The following 7 pairs of parts of speech are connected with aux
: VERB-AUX (2693; 96% instances), NOUN-AUX (73; 3% instances), PROPN-PROPN (12; 0% instances), PRON-AUX (11; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (9; 0% instances), PROPN-AUX (7; 0% instances), AUX-AUX (1; 0% instances).
aux in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]