aux
: auxiliary
In UD Finnish, only a closed list of verbs can act as auxiliaries, including the main modal verbs (see ISK §1562) and in addition the verbs olla “to be” and aikoa “to be going to”.
The full list of auxiliaries is as follows:
- täytyä “must”
- pitää “have to”
- tarvita “need”
- joutua “have to”
- voida “be able to, can”
- saattaa “may”
- taitaa “be+probably, may”
- mahtaa “be+probably, may”
- olla “be”
- aikoa “be going to”
Examples
References
- http://scripta.kotus.fi/visk/sisallys.php?p=1562 (in Finnish)
Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish)
This relation is universal.
2899 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as aux
.
2883 instances of aux
(99%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 1.54398068299414.
The following 9 pairs of parts of speech are connected with aux
: VERB-AUX (2690; 93% instances), ADJ-AUX (92; 3% instances), NOUN-AUX (77; 3% instances), ADV-AUX (26; 1% instances), PRON-AUX (7; 0% instances), NUM-AUX (4; 0% instances), ADP-AUX (1; 0% instances), AUX-AUX (1; 0% instances), X-AUX (1; 0% instances).
Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish-FTB)
This relation is universal.
5111 nodes (3%) are attached to their parents as aux
.
5053 instances of aux
(99%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent).
Average distance between parent and child is 1.57875171199374.
The following 11 pairs of parts of speech are connected with aux
: VERB-VERB (4618; 90% instances), ADJ-VERB (152; 3% instances), VERB-ADJ (118; 2% instances), NOUN-VERB (116; 2% instances), VERB-NOUN (85; 2% instances), PRON-VERB (9; 0% instances), PROPN-VERB (6; 0% instances), ADJ-ADJ (2; 0% instances), NUM-VERB (2; 0% instances), X-VERB (2; 0% instances), ADV-VERB (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]