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neg: negation modifier

The negation modifier is the relation between the negation word не and the word it modifies.

Negation in Russian is most of the time expressed using a bound morpheme (the prefix не-). Occurrences of the morpheme as a separate word are rare in comparison to other languages, yet they exist.

Note that the negative determiners (pronouns) are attached as det, not neg:


Treebank Statistics (UD_Russian)

This relation is universal.

434 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as neg.

433 instances of neg (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.12672811059908.

The following 10 pairs of parts of speech are connected with neg: VERB-PART (304; 70% instances), ADJ-PART (43; 10% instances), NOUN-PART (32; 7% instances), ADV-PART (21; 5% instances), NUM-PART (12; 3% instances), AUX-PART (6; 1% instances), PART-PART (5; 1% instances), DET-PART (4; 1% instances), PRON-PART (4; 1% instances), ADP-PART (3; 1% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Russian-SynTagRus)

This relation is universal.

13482 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as neg.

13370 instances of neg (99%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.13462394303516.

The following 17 pairs of parts of speech are connected with neg: VERB-PART (8976; 67% instances), NOUN-PART (1410; 10% instances), ADV-PART (1056; 8% instances), ADJ-PART (1011; 7% instances), PART-PART (669; 5% instances), PROPN-PART (102; 1% instances), PRON-PART (96; 1% instances), DET-PART (88; 1% instances), NUM-PART (49; 0% instances), SCONJ-PART (12; 0% instances), CONJ-VERB (3; 0% instances), CONJ-PART (2; 0% instances), NOUN-VERB (2; 0% instances), SYM-PART (2; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (2; 0% instances), SCONJ-VERB (1; 0% instances), X-PART (1; 0% instances).


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