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Treebank Statistics: UD_English: POS Tags: VERB

There are 2111 VERB lemmas (11%), 3937 VERB types (17%) and 28492 VERB tokens (11%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of VERB is: 4 in number of lemmas, 3 in number of types and 3 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent VERB lemmas: have, be, go, get, do, know, say, make, take, want

The 10 most frequent VERB types: have, get, know, had, is, go, do, want, said, see

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: have (VERB 1672, AUX 1570), be (AUX 8539, VERB 952, NOUN 2, X 1), go (VERB 752, NOUN 3, PROPN 1), get (VERB 744, AUX 41), do (AUX 1135, VERB 669, NOUN 2, ADV 1, PROPN 1), know (VERB 548, ADV 1, NOUN 1), say (VERB 544, INTJ 4), take (VERB 484, NOUN 8), see (VERB 371, NOUN 1), use (VERB 349, NOUN 23, ADJ 1, PRON 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: have (VERB 940, AUX 720), get (VERB 462, AUX 21), know (VERB 443, ADV 1, NOUN 1), had (VERB 399, AUX 183), is (AUX 2374, VERB 367, ADV 1, PRON 1), go (VERB 330, NOUN 3, PROPN 1), do (AUX 576, VERB 331, NOUN 2, ADP 1, ADV 1, PROPN 1), see (VERB 235, NOUN 1), going (VERB 239, ADJ 1), take (VERB 222, NOUN 8)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of VERB is 1.864993 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.176027).

The 1st highest number of forms (13) was observed with the lemma “be”: ‘m, ‘s, am, are, be, been, being, is, m, s, was, were, ’s.

The 2nd highest number of forms (6) was observed with the lemma “bear”: bear, beared, bearing, bears, bore, born.

The 3rd highest number of forms (6) was observed with the lemma “know”: knew, know, knowing, known, knows, no.

VERB occurs with 6 features: VerbForm (28482; 100% instances), Tense (15535; 55% instances), Mood (11389; 40% instances), Number (2353; 8% instances), Person (2336; 8% instances), Voice (1396; 5% instances)

VERB occurs with 13 feature-value pairs: Mood=Imp, Mood=Ind, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, Person=1, Person=3, Tense=Past, Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Fin, VerbForm=Ger, VerbForm=Inf, VerbForm=Part, Voice=Pass

VERB occurs with 16 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is VerbForm=Inf (8724 tokens). Examples: have, get, know, do, go, make, take, see, like, find

Relations

VERB nodes are attached to their parents using 32 different relations: root (9347; 33% instances), advcl (3884; 14% instances), conj (3667; 13% instances), xcomp (2756; 10% instances), acl:relcl (2136; 7% instances), ccomp (2109; 7% instances), acl (1738; 6% instances), parataxis (1139; 4% instances), amod (810; 3% instances), csubj (320; 1% instances), case (212; 1% instances), appos (75; 0% instances), compound (57; 0% instances), aux:pass (48; 0% instances), aux (38; 0% instances), _ (24; 0% instances), obj (21; 0% instances), list (16; 0% instances), fixed (14; 0% instances), nsubj (13; 0% instances), discourse (12; 0% instances), obl (12; 0% instances), mark (11; 0% instances), advmod (10; 0% instances), reparandum (7; 0% instances), csubj:pass (5; 0% instances), orphan (4; 0% instances), cc (2; 0% instances), obl:npmod (2; 0% instances), compound:prt (1; 0% instances), dep (1; 0% instances), flat (1; 0% instances)

Parents of VERB nodes belong to 18 different parts of speech: VERB (11252; 39% instances), (9371; 33% instances), NOUN (5001; 18% instances), ADJ (1698; 6% instances), PRON (414; 1% instances), PROPN (313; 1% instances), ADV (220; 1% instances), DET (77; 0% instances), NUM (73; 0% instances), AUX (26; 0% instances), SYM (18; 0% instances), X (8; 0% instances), ADP (7; 0% instances), PART (6; 0% instances), SCONJ (4; 0% instances), INTJ (2; 0% instances), CCONJ (1; 0% instances), PUNCT (1; 0% instances)

1193 (4%) VERB nodes are leaves.

2429 (9%) VERB nodes have one child.

5219 (18%) VERB nodes have two children.

19651 (69%) VERB nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a VERB node is 17.

Children of VERB nodes are attached using 44 different relations: nsubj (15107; 15% instances), punct (15009; 15% instances), obj (12537; 13% instances), obl (9470; 9% instances), advmod (8301; 8% instances), mark (7826; 8% instances), aux (7280; 7% instances), cc (3584; 4% instances), advcl (3550; 4% instances), conj (3491; 3% instances), xcomp (3473; 3% instances), ccomp (2569; 3% instances), aux:pass (1610; 2% instances), nsubj:pass (1375; 1% instances), parataxis (991; 1% instances), compound:prt (906; 1% instances), discourse (651; 1% instances), obl:tmod (575; 1% instances), expl (565; 1% instances), iobj (462; 0% instances), obl:npmod (217; 0% instances), csubj (122; 0% instances), compound (120; 0% instances), vocative (63; 0% instances), nummod (59; 0% instances), cop (36; 0% instances), appos (31; 0% instances), cc:preconj (27; 0% instances), fixed (26; 0% instances), reparandum (22; 0% instances), acl:relcl (19; 0% instances), det (18; 0% instances), amod (17; 0% instances), list (17; 0% instances), goeswith (12; 0% instances), orphan (10; 0% instances), acl (8; 0% instances), _ (7; 0% instances), csubj:pass (6; 0% instances), case (4; 0% instances), nmod:poss (4; 0% instances), nmod (3; 0% instances), dep (2; 0% instances), flat (1; 0% instances)

Children of VERB nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: NOUN (20508; 20% instances), PRON (15403; 15% instances), PUNCT (15007; 15% instances), VERB (11254; 11% instances), AUX (8920; 9% instances), ADV (7446; 7% instances), PART (5287; 5% instances), PROPN (4261; 4% instances), SCONJ (3582; 4% instances), CCONJ (3570; 4% instances), ADJ (2087; 2% instances), ADP (1234; 1% instances), INTJ (573; 1% instances), NUM (437; 0% instances), DET (269; 0% instances), SYM (195; 0% instances), X (150; 0% instances)