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Treebank Statistics: UD_English-LinES: POS Tags: VERB

There are 1699 VERB lemmas (18%), 2883 VERB types (24%) and 12557 VERB tokens (12%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of VERB is: 3 in number of lemmas, 2 in number of types and 3 in number of tokens.

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

The 10 most frequent VERB types: said, was, had, know, see, have, made, is, come, came

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: be (AUX 3164, VERB 603), say (VERB 453, ADJ 1), have (AUX 1117, VERB 320), make (VERB 226, NOUN 2), do (AUX 341, VERB 185), look (VERB 167, NOUN 22), get (VERB 157, AUX 14), use (VERB 140, NOUN 18), think (VERB 136, NOUN 9), want (VERB 107, NOUN 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: said (VERB 327, ADJ 1), was (AUX 1069, VERB 284), had (AUX 668, VERB 164), have (AUX 209, VERB 113), is (AUX 528, VERB 99), do (AUX 126, VERB 89), get (VERB 72, AUX 3), got (VERB 64, AUX 11), want (VERB 62, NOUN 1), were (AUX 303, VERB 62)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of VERB is 1.696881 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.236954).

The 1st highest number of forms (10) was observed with the lemma “be”: ‘m, ‘re, ‘s, am, are, be, been, is, was, were.

The 2nd highest number of forms (5) was observed with the lemma “begin”: began, begin, beginning, begins, begun.

The 3rd highest number of forms (5) was observed with the lemma “contain”: contain, contained, containing, contains, self-contained.

VERB occurs with 7 features: VerbForm (12553; 100% instances), Tense (9456; 75% instances), Mood (5839; 46% instances), Voice (1362; 11% instances), Number (1017; 8% instances), Person (1016; 8% instances), ExtPos (5; 0% instances)

VERB occurs with 15 feature-value pairs: ExtPos=ADP, ExtPos=CCONJ, Mood=Imp, Mood=Ind, Mood=Sub, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, Person=1, Person=3, Tense=Past, Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Fin, VerbForm=Inf, VerbForm=Part, Voice=Pass

VERB occurs with 30 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin (3794 tokens). Examples: said, had, came, seemed, looked, went, made, felt, saw, got

Relations

VERB nodes are attached to their parents using 22 different relations: root (4415; 35% instances), conj (1969; 16% instances), advcl (1730; 14% instances), xcomp (1075; 9% instances), acl (985; 8% instances), acl:relcl (861; 7% instances), ccomp (718; 6% instances), parataxis (460; 4% instances), csubj (187; 1% instances), appos (34; 0% instances), amod (31; 0% instances), compound (30; 0% instances), obj (25; 0% instances), discourse (10; 0% instances), dislocated (9; 0% instances), csubj:pass (8; 0% instances), case (3; 0% instances), cc (2; 0% instances), nsubj (2; 0% instances), csubj:outer (1; 0% instances), fixed (1; 0% instances), obl (1; 0% instances)

Parents of VERB nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: VERB (5438; 43% instances), (4415; 35% instances), NOUN (1761; 14% instances), ADJ (509; 4% instances), PRON (193; 2% instances), ADV (93; 1% instances), PROPN (72; 1% instances), AUX (50; 0% instances), NUM (10; 0% instances), INTJ (6; 0% instances), PART (4; 0% instances), ADP (3; 0% instances), CCONJ (1; 0% instances), SCONJ (1; 0% instances), X (1; 0% instances)

129 (1%) VERB nodes are leaves.

908 (7%) VERB nodes have one child.

2049 (16%) VERB nodes have two children.

9471 (75%) VERB nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a VERB node is 13.

Children of VERB nodes are attached using 44 different relations: punct (7607; 16% instances), nsubj (7437; 16% instances), obl (5266; 11% instances), obj (4874; 10% instances), advmod (3819; 8% instances), mark (3283; 7% instances), aux (2878; 6% instances), conj (1920; 4% instances), advcl (1719; 4% instances), cc (1673; 4% instances), xcomp (1553; 3% instances), ccomp (912; 2% instances), aux:pass (848; 2% instances), nsubj:pass (750; 2% instances), compound:prt (465; 1% instances), parataxis (415; 1% instances), expl (301; 1% instances), obl:unmarked (211; 0% instances), discourse (127; 0% instances), dislocated (110; 0% instances), iobj (97; 0% instances), csubj (87; 0% instances), cop (72; 0% instances), vocative (71; 0% instances), appos (62; 0% instances), det (59; 0% instances), amod (24; 0% instances), nsubj:outer (20; 0% instances), case (19; 0% instances), nmod:poss (18; 0% instances), compound (15; 0% instances), acl (14; 0% instances), acl:relcl (11; 0% instances), csubj:pass (9; 0% instances), nmod (8; 0% instances), fixed (7; 0% instances), flat (5; 0% instances), nmod:unmarked (3; 0% instances), obl:agent (3; 0% instances), orphan (3; 0% instances), nummod (2; 0% instances), csubj:outer (1; 0% instances), dep (1; 0% instances), nmod:desc (1; 0% instances)

Children of VERB nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: NOUN (10399; 22% instances), PUNCT (7607; 16% instances), PRON (7516; 16% instances), VERB (5438; 12% instances), AUX (3867; 8% instances), ADV (3647; 8% instances), PART (2029; 4% instances), CCONJ (1672; 4% instances), SCONJ (1454; 3% instances), PROPN (1435; 3% instances), ADJ (873; 2% instances), ADP (528; 1% instances), NUM (117; 0% instances), INTJ (109; 0% instances), DET (81; 0% instances), X (6; 0% instances), SYM (2; 0% instances)