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foreign: foreign words

We use foreign to label sequences of foreign words. These are given a linear analysis: the head is the first token in the foreign phrase.

I guess that c' est la vie
nsubj(guess-2, I-1)
ccomp(guess-2, c'-4)
mark(c'-4, that-3)
foreign(c'-4, est-5)
foreign(c'-4, la-6)
foreign(c'-4, vie-7)

Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

This relation is universal.

16 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as foreign.

14 instances of foreign (88%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 2.875.

The following 1 pairs of parts of speech are connected with foreign: en-pos/X-en-pos/X (16; 100% instances).

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# visual-style 8	bgColor:blue
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# visual-style 8 1 foreign	color:blue
1	A	a	X	FW	_	8	foreign	_	_
2	la	la	X	FW	_	8	foreign	_	_
3	guerre	guerre	X	FW	_	8	foreign	_	_
4	c'est	c'est	X	FW	_	8	foreign	_	_
5	comme	comme	X	FW	_	8	foreign	_	_
6	a	a	X	FW	_	8	foreign	_	_
7	la	la	X	FW	_	8	foreign	_	_
8	guerre	guerre	X	FW	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_


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