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aux: auxiliary

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An auxiliary of a clause is a non-main verb of the clause, e.g., a modal auxiliary, or a form of “estar”, “ser” or “haber” in a periphrastic tense.

Spanish modal auxiliaries include (Butt and Benjamin, 2013):


Treebank Statistics (UD_Spanish)

This relation is universal.

4195 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as aux.

4184 instances of aux (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.41382598331347.

The following 20 pairs of parts of speech are connected with aux: VERB-AUX (3872; 92% instances), NOUN-AUX (126; 3% instances), ADJ-AUX (122; 3% instances), PRON-AUX (18; 0% instances), VERB-VERB (15; 0% instances), PROPN-AUX (11; 0% instances), VERB-X (7; 0% instances), PROPN-PROPN (4; 0% instances), X-AUX (4; 0% instances), NUM-AUX (3; 0% instances), VERB-SYM (3; 0% instances), ADJ-VERB (2; 0% instances), ADP-AUX (1; 0% instances), AUX-AUX (1; 0% instances), CONJ-AUX (1; 0% instances), DET-AUX (1; 0% instances), NOUN-NOUN (1; 0% instances), NOUN-PROPN (1; 0% instances), VERB-NOUN (1; 0% instances), X-X (1; 0% instances).


aux in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]
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