CONJ

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`CONJ`: coordinating conjunction

Definition

A coordinating conjunction is a word that links words or larger constituents without syntactically subordinating one to the other and expresses a semantic relationship between them.

For subordinating conjunctions, see SCONJ.

Examples

і, й, та “and”
або “or”
але “but”

Treebank Statistics (UD_Ukrainian)

There are 4 CONJ lemmas (1%), 4 CONJ types (1%) and 25 CONJ tokens (1%). Out of 16 observed tags, the rank of CONJ is: 13 in number of lemmas, 13 in number of types and 13 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent CONJ lemmas: і, а, але, чи

The 10 most frequent CONJ types: і, а, але, чи

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: чи (CONJ 4, PART 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types:

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of CONJ is 1.000000 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.172859).

The 1st highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “а”: а.

The 2nd highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “але”: але.

The 3rd highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “чи”: чи.

CONJ does not occur with any features.

Relations

CONJ nodes are attached to their parents using 4 different relations: uk-dep/cc (14; 56% instances), uk-dep/mark (4; 16% instances), uk-dep/root (4; 16% instances), uk-dep/discourse (3; 12% instances)

Parents of CONJ nodes belong to 5 different parts of speech: VERB (13; 52% instances), NOUN (4; 16% instances), ROOT (4; 16% instances), ADJ (3; 12% instances), ADV (1; 4% instances)

21 (84%) CONJ nodes are leaves.

1 (4%) CONJ nodes have one child.

3 (12%) CONJ nodes have two children.

The highest child degree of a CONJ node is 2.

Children of CONJ nodes are attached using 3 different relations: uk-dep/punct (3; 43% instances), uk-dep/conj (2; 29% instances), uk-dep/parataxis (2; 29% instances)

Children of CONJ nodes belong to 4 different parts of speech: PUNCT (3; 43% instances), VERB (2; 29% instances), NOUN (1; 14% instances), PRON (1; 14% instances)