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VERB: verb

The tag VERB covers PTB tags VB, VBP, VBZ, VBD, VBG, VBN, except for auxiliary verb uses of be, have, do, and get.

(Auxiliary verbs and modals are AUX and the infinitive to is PART.)

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Treebank Statistics (UD_English)

There are 2121 VERB lemmas (11%), 3944 VERB types (17%) and 34078 VERB tokens (13%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of VERB is: 4 in number of lemmas, 3 in number of types and 2 in number of tokens.

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

The 10 most frequent VERB types: is, was, have, are, be, get, know, had, ‘s, go

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: be (VERB 6553, AUX 2940, NOUN 2, X 1), have (VERB 1668, AUX 1567), go (VERB 751, NOUN 3, ADP 1, PROPN 1), get (VERB 744, AUX 41), do (AUX 1135, VERB 669, NOUN 2, ADV 1, PROPN 1, ADP 1), know (VERB 548, NOUN 1, ADV 1), say (VERB 544, INTJ 4), take (VERB 483, NOUN 8), see (VERB 371, NOUN 1), use (VERB 346, NOUN 23, ADJ 2, PRON 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: is (VERB 2213, AUX 527, ADV 1, PRON 1), was (VERB 962, AUX 505), have (VERB 938, AUX 720), are (VERB 906, AUX 459), be (VERB 854, AUX 507, NOUN 2, X 1), get (VERB 462, AUX 21), know (VERB 443, NOUN 1, ADV 1), had (VERB 399, AUX 183), ’s (PART 699, VERB 392, AUX 71, PRON 15), go (VERB 329, NOUN 3, ADP 1, PROPN 1)

• is
  • VERB 2213: The hottest item on Christmas wish lists this year is nuclear weapons .
  • AUX 527: It is rumored that North Korea has at least a couple nuclear weapons .
  • ADV 1: Then the need to be mature , that is , old enough , and big enough to breed .
  • PRON 1: You do n’t think is was because of female nudes considering the nearly naked girls / women seen at pools and beaches and the completely naked manikins that show up in store windows in malls during changes in display ?
• was
  • VERB 962: In Ramadi , there was a big demonstration .
  • AUX 505: The hymn was sung at my first inaugural church service as governor .
• have
  • VERB 938: I have .
  • AUX 720: I really have n’t thought about writing a book .
• are
  • VERB 906: Laura and I are Methodists .
  • AUX 459: max and jen are looking for you .
• be
  • VERB 854: Right now that seems to be the US , EU , and IAEA .
  • AUX 507: Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 may be downloaded for FREE from www.adobe.com .
  • NOUN 2: Talked to the little mother - to - be .
  • X 1: Anthony Shadid of the Washington Post reveals that the warrants for the arrests had been issued months be for .
• get
  • VERB 462: And what do we get for this effort ?
  • AUX 21: And do you get charged for it ?
• know
  • VERB 443: That ‘s overstating it , I know .
  • NOUN 1: Soldiers with vital training and know - how are refusing to re-enlist .
  • ADV 1: If you are looking for authentic British meat pies , then look know further .
• had
  • VERB 399: When they saw a cartoon of their prophet , people had to die .
  • AUX 183: It had been eating dog food the whole time .
• ’s
  • PART 699: I was thinking Kenneally ’s at around 5 .
  • VERB 392: Read the entire article ; there ’s a punchline , too .
  • AUX 71: So he ’s got a – I ‘m a decision - maker and I can make good decisions .
  • PRON 15: let ’s discuss next time we have amstel lights together .
• go
  • VERB 329: i have to go to butt - fucking mississippi .
  • NOUN 3: They phoned the same day , confirmed it was the gearbox quoted me the job , I gave the go ahead .
  • ADP 1: It ‘s more of a place to go to enjoy the weather , the sea , etc .
  • PROPN 1: I would recommend go launcher or adw launcher .

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of VERB is 1.859500 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.173588).

The 1st highest number of forms (16) was observed with the lemma “be”: ‘m, ‘re, ‘s, ai, am, are, be, been, being, is, m, r, re, s, was, were.

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: en-feat/VerbForm (34072; 100% instances), en-feat/Tense (20270; 59% instances), en-feat/Mood (15990; 47% instances), en-feat/Number (5697; 17% instances), en-feat/Person (5680; 17% instances), en-feat/Voice (1395; 4% 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 15 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is VerbForm=Inf (9475 tokens). Examples: be, have, get, know, do, go, make, take, see, like

Relations

VERB nodes are attached to their parents using 32 different relations: en-dep/root (9353; 27% instances), en-dep/cop (5603; 16% instances), en-dep/advcl (3888; 11% instances), en-dep/conj (3661; 11% instances), en-dep/xcomp (2590; 8% instances), en-dep/ccomp (2289; 7% instances), en-dep/acl:relcl (2122; 6% instances), en-dep/acl (1741; 5% instances), en-dep/parataxis (1129; 3% instances), en-dep/amod (812; 2% instances), en-dep/csubj (319; 1% instances), en-dep/case (214; 1% instances), en-dep/appos (75; 0% instances), en-dep/compound (57; 0% instances), en-dep/auxpass (48; 0% instances), en-dep/aux (39; 0% instances), en-dep/dobj (21; 0% instances), en-dep/list (17; 0% instances), en-dep/mwe (14; 0% instances), en-dep/nmod (13; 0% instances), en-dep/nsubj (13; 0% instances), en-dep/discourse (12; 0% instances), en-dep/advmod (11; 0% instances), en-dep/mark (11; 0% instances), en-dep/remnant (7; 0% instances), en-dep/reparandum (6; 0% instances), en-dep/csubjpass (5; 0% instances), en-dep/cc (3; 0% instances), en-dep/nmod:npmod (2; 0% instances), en-dep/compound:prt (1; 0% instances), en-dep/dep (1; 0% instances), en-dep/name (1; 0% instances)

Parents of VERB nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: VERB (11304; 33% instances), ROOT (9353; 27% instances), NOUN (7161; 21% instances), ADJ (4501; 13% instances), ADV (508; 1% instances), PROPN (497; 1% instances), PRON (378; 1% instances), NUM (165; 0% instances), DET (95; 0% instances), SYM (40; 0% instances), ADP (24; 0% instances), AUX (23; 0% instances), X (13; 0% instances), PART (6; 0% instances), SCONJ (5; 0% instances), INTJ (4; 0% instances), CONJ (1; 0% instances)

6965 (20%) VERB nodes are leaves.

2919 (9%) VERB nodes have one child.

5534 (16%) VERB nodes have two children.

18660 (55%) VERB nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a VERB node is 19.

Children of VERB nodes are attached using 42 different relations: en-dep/nsubj (15293; 15% instances), en-dep/punct (14951; 15% instances), en-dep/dobj (12386; 12% instances), en-dep/nmod (9469; 9% instances), en-dep/mark (7824; 8% instances), en-dep/aux (7278; 7% instances), en-dep/advmod (6645; 7% instances), en-dep/advcl (3551; 4% instances), en-dep/conj (3474; 3% instances), en-dep/cc (3414; 3% instances), en-dep/xcomp (3306; 3% instances), en-dep/ccomp (2757; 3% instances), en-dep/neg (1663; 2% instances), en-dep/auxpass (1612; 2% instances), en-dep/nsubjpass (1377; 1% instances), en-dep/parataxis (983; 1% instances), en-dep/compound:prt (906; 1% instances), en-dep/discourse (652; 1% instances), en-dep/nmod:tmod (575; 1% instances), en-dep/expl (556; 1% instances), en-dep/iobj (462; 0% instances), en-dep/nmod:npmod (218; 0% instances), en-dep/csubj (125; 0% instances), en-dep/compound (118; 0% instances), en-dep/nummod (57; 0% instances), en-dep/vocative (57; 0% instances), en-dep/cop (40; 0% instances), en-dep/appos (31; 0% instances), en-dep/cc:preconj (27; 0% instances), en-dep/mwe (26; 0% instances), en-dep/reparandum (21; 0% instances), en-dep/acl:relcl (20; 0% instances), en-dep/list (17; 0% instances), en-dep/det (15; 0% instances), en-dep/amod (14; 0% instances), en-dep/goeswith (12; 0% instances), en-dep/remnant (9; 0% instances), en-dep/acl (8; 0% instances), en-dep/csubjpass (6; 0% instances), en-dep/nmod:poss (3; 0% instances), en-dep/dep (2; 0% instances), en-dep/case (1; 0% instances)

Children of VERB nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: NOUN (21039; 21% instances), PUNCT (14951; 15% instances), PRON (14051; 14% instances), VERB (11304; 11% instances), AUX (8890; 9% instances), ADV (7440; 7% instances), PART (5287; 5% instances), PROPN (4229; 4% instances), SCONJ (3582; 4% instances), CONJ (3400; 3% instances), ADJ (2089; 2% instances), ADP (1231; 1% instances), DET (1114; 1% instances), INTJ (574; 1% instances), NUM (435; 0% instances), SYM (196; 0% instances), X (149; 0% instances)

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