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advcl: adverbial clause modifier

An adverbial clause modifier is a clause which modifies a verb or other predicate (adjective, etc.), as a modifier not as a core complement. This includes things such as a temporal clause, consequence, conditional clause, purpose clause, etc. The dependent must be clausal (or else it is an advmod) and the dependent is the main predicate of the clause.

advcl cover the following typology of cases:

Muore folgorata sotto la doccia
advcl(Muore, folgorata)
Quando lui muore l' azienda sbanda paurosamente
advcl(muore, sbanda)
Mi fecero pagare gli hezbollah per liberare due ostaggi
advcl(pagare, liberare)
risolvere i problemi di approvvigionamento alimentare acquistando una fazenda
advcl(risolvere, acquistando)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)

This relation is universal.

3307 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as advcl.

2365 instances of advcl (72%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 9.42576353190203.

The following 41 pairs of parts of speech are connected with advcl: it-pos/VERB-it-pos/VERB (2608; 79% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/VERB (260; 8% instances), it-pos/ADJ-it-pos/VERB (103; 3% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/ADJ (93; 3% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/NOUN (44; 1% instances), it-pos/PRON-it-pos/VERB (34; 1% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/ADJ (27; 1% instances), it-pos/ADV-it-pos/VERB (17; 1% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/NOUN (15; 0% instances), it-pos/ADJ-it-pos/ADJ (13; 0% instances), it-pos/PROPN-it-pos/VERB (13; 0% instances), it-pos/PRON-it-pos/NOUN (12; 0% instances), it-pos/AUX-it-pos/VERB (6; 0% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/PRON (6; 0% instances), it-pos/NUM-it-pos/VERB (5; 0% instances), it-pos/ADJ-it-pos/NOUN (4; 0% instances), it-pos/INTJ-it-pos/VERB (4; 0% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/PROPN (4; 0% instances), it-pos/ADJ-it-pos/PROPN (3; 0% instances), it-pos/PROPN-it-pos/NOUN (3; 0% instances), it-pos/PUNCT-it-pos/VERB (3; 0% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/AUX (3; 0% instances), it-pos/ADJ-it-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances), it-pos/ADV-it-pos/ADJ (2; 0% instances), it-pos/DET-it-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/AUX (2; 0% instances), it-pos/NUM-it-pos/ADJ (2; 0% instances), it-pos/PRON-it-pos/ADJ (2; 0% instances), it-pos/PROPN-it-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances), it-pos/VERB-it-pos/ADV (2; 0% instances), it-pos/ADV-it-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), it-pos/ADV-it-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), it-pos/CONJ-it-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), it-pos/NUM-it-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), it-pos/PRON-it-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), it-pos/PUNCT-it-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances), it-pos/SCONJ-it-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), it-pos/SYM-it-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances).

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1	Se	se	SCONJ	CS	_	2	mark	_	_
2	pensi	pensare	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
3	a	a	ADP	E	_	5	case	_	_
4	queste	questo	DET	DD	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	cose	cosa	NOUN	S	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	FF	_	2	punct	_	_
7	se	se	SCONJ	CS	_	9	mark	_	_
8	ci	ci	PRON	PC	Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Clit	9	advmod	_	_
9	rifletti	riflettere	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
10	su	su	ADV	B	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	finisci	finire	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	per	per	ADP	E	_	13	mark	_	_
13	sbagliare	sbagliare	VERB	V	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
14	.	.	PUNCT	FS	_	11	punct	_	_

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1	stillicidio	stillicidio	NOUN	S	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	[	[	PUNCT	FB	_	3	punct	_	_
3	v.	vedere	VERB	V	Mood=Imp|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
4	908	908	NUM	N	NumType=Card	3	dobj	_	_
5	]	]	PUNCT	FB	_	3	punct	_	_
6	)	)	PUNCT	FB	_	1	punct	_	_
7	.	.	PUNCT	FS	_	1	punct	_	_

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1	Eppure	eppure	ADV	B	_	11	advmod	_	_
2	,	,	PUNCT	FF	_	1	punct	_	_
3	a	a	ADP	E	_	5	mark	_	_
4	ben	bene	ADV	B	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	guardare	guardare	VERB	V	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
6	i	il	DET	RD	Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	FB	_	8	punct	_	_
8	rimproveri	rimprovero	NOUN	S	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	FB	_	8	punct	_	_
10	sono	essere	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	numerosi	numeroso	ADJ	A	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	FS	_	11	punct	_	_


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