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mwe: multi-word expression

The multi-word expression (modifier) relation is one of the relations for compounding and it is intended for function words. In Czech it is used for multi-word prepositions. The leftmost word is the head and all the other words are attached as its mwe modifiers.

Multi-word prepositions usually form a contiguous span of the sentence. In exceptional cases however, they can be interrupted by emphasizers and other words:

Another type of interruption is caused by a possessive determiner. For instance, na základě něčeho “based on something” contains the multi-word preposition na základě “based on”, lit. on the-basis-of. This expression is etymologically a combination of a proper preposition na “on” and the noun základ “basis”; the argument něčeho “something” is in genitive. If the phrase na základě were not analyzed as a multi-word expression, we would have a normal genitive modification between two nominals: základ něčeho “basis of-something”. A genitive modifier can be substituted by a possessive determiner, and this is possible even within the partially frozen multi-word preposition, as with the relative possessive determiner in the following example:


Treebank Statistics (UD_Czech)

This relation is universal.

3705 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as mwe.

3705 instances of mwe (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 1.21754385964912.

The following 10 pairs of parts of speech are connected with mwe: ADP-NOUN (2249; 61% instances), ADP-ADP (1068; 29% instances), ADV-ADP (317; 9% instances), NOUN-ADP (44; 1% instances), SCONJ-SCONJ (12; 0% instances), PART-ADP (9; 0% instances), ADP-ADJ (3; 0% instances), ADP-VERB (1; 0% instances), ADV-VERB (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-ADP (1; 0% instances).


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