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aux: auxiliary

An auxiliary of a clause is a form of the auxiliary verb быть “to be” used to construct the periphrastic future tense or conditional.

Exception: Auxiliary verb used to construct the passive voice is not labeled aux but auxpass.

Note that besides aux and auxpass, the verb быть may also act as a copula and as the main verb.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Russian)

This relation is universal.

62 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as aux.

38 instances of aux (61%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.19354838709677.

The following 3 pairs of parts of speech are connected with aux: VERB-AUX (46; 74% instances), ADJ-AUX (14; 23% instances), NOUN-AUX (2; 3% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Russian-SynTagRus)

This relation is universal.

2271 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as aux.

1466 instances of aux (65%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.55702333773668.

The following 10 pairs of parts of speech are connected with aux: VERB-PART (1094; 48% instances), VERB-AUX (902; 40% instances), ADJ-PART (164; 7% instances), ADV-PART (64; 3% instances), NOUN-PART (36; 2% instances), PRON-PART (5; 0% instances), PART-PART (2; 0% instances), PROPN-PART (2; 0% instances), DET-PART (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-PART (1; 0% instances).


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