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neg: negation modifier

This document is a placeholder for the language-specific documentation for neg.

María no canta . \n María does not sing .
neg(canta, no)
Nunca llueve . \n It never rains .
neg(llueve, Nunca)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Spanish)

This relation is universal.

1765 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as neg.

1760 instances of neg (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.51614730878187.

The following 19 pairs of parts of speech are connected with neg: es-pos/VERB-es-pos/ADV (1596; 90% instances), es-pos/NOUN-es-pos/ADV (38; 2% instances), es-pos/ADV-es-pos/ADV (36; 2% instances), es-pos/ADJ-es-pos/ADV (31; 2% instances), es-pos/VERB-es-pos/CONJ (14; 1% instances), es-pos/NOUN-es-pos/CONJ (13; 1% instances), es-pos/AUX-es-pos/ADV (8; 0% instances), es-pos/PRON-es-pos/ADV (7; 0% instances), es-pos/PROPN-es-pos/PROPN (6; 0% instances), es-pos/PROPN-es-pos/ADV (5; 0% instances), es-pos/VERB-es-pos/PROPN (2; 0% instances), es-pos/X-es-pos/X (2; 0% instances), es-pos/ADV-es-pos/CONJ (1; 0% instances), es-pos/CONJ-es-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), es-pos/DET-es-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), es-pos/NOUN-es-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), es-pos/SCONJ-es-pos/ADP (1; 0% instances), es-pos/VERB-es-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), es-pos/VERB-es-pos/X (1; 0% instances).

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1	No	no	ADV	_	_	2	neg	_	_
2	tiene	tener	VERB	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	cura	cura	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	2	dobj	_	_
4	conocida	conocido	ADJ	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|VerbForm=Part	3	amod	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	2	punct	_	_
6	y	y	CONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	_
7	frecuentemente	frecuentemente	ADV	_	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	desemboca	desembocar	VERB	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	en	en	ADP	_	_	11	case	_	_
10	la	el	DET	_	Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	muerte	muerte	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	2	punct	_	_

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1	Los	el	DET	_	Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	no	no	ADV	_	_	4	neg	_	_
3	-	-	PUNCT	_	_	4	punct	_	_
4	lugares	lugar	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
5	están	estar	VERB	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	cop	_	_
6	muy	mucho	ADV	_	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	presentes	presente	ADJ	_	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
8	en	en	ADP	_	_	10	case	_	_
9	la	el	DET	_	Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	obra	obra	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	de	de	ADP	_	_	14	case	_	_
12	J.	j.	X	_	_	14	compound	_	_
13	G.	g.	X	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	Ballard	ballard	PROPN	_	_	10	nmod	_	_
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	7	punct	_	_

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1	No	no	ADV	_	_	4	neg	_	_
2	vuelvo	volver	AUX	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	a	a	ADP	_	_	2	mwe	_	_
4	ir	ir	VERB	_	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	ni	ni	ADV	_	_	6	neg	_	_
6	gratis	gratis	ADV	_	_	4	advmod	_	_
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	4	punct	_	_


Treebank Statistics (UD_Spanish-AnCora)

This relation is universal.

3521 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as neg.

3465 instances of neg (98%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.87049133768816.

The following 14 pairs of parts of speech are connected with neg: es-pos/VERB-es-pos/ADV (2623; 74% instances), es-pos/ADJ-es-pos/ADV (358; 10% instances), es-pos/NOUN-es-pos/ADV (247; 7% instances), es-pos/AUX-es-pos/ADV (154; 4% instances), es-pos/PRON-es-pos/ADV (58; 2% instances), es-pos/ADV-es-pos/ADV (34; 1% instances), es-pos/ADP-es-pos/ADV (14; 0% instances), es-pos/PROPN-es-pos/ADV (12; 0% instances), es-pos/PROPN-es-pos/PART (8; 0% instances), es-pos/DET-es-pos/ADV (7; 0% instances), es-pos/NOUN-es-pos/PART (3; 0% instances), es-pos/CONJ-es-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), es-pos/NUM-es-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), es-pos/SYM-es-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances).

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1	No	no	ADV	ADV	Negative=Neg	2	neg	_	_
2	pudiste	poder	VERB	VERB	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	PUNCT	PunctType=Comm	2	punct	_	_
4	pero	pero	CONJ	CONJ	_	2	cc	_	_
5	nos	yo	PRON	PRON	Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	6	dobj	_	_
6	dio	dar	VERB	VERB	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
7	igual	igual	ADV	ADV	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	PUNCT	PunctType=Peri	2	punct	_	_

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1	Y	y	CONJ	CONJ	_	4	advmod	_	_
2	no	no	ADV	ADV	Negative=Neg	4	neg	_	_
3	es	ser	AUX	AUX	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	raro	raro	ADJ	ADJ	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	.	.	PUNCT	PUNCT	PunctType=Peri	4	punct	_	_

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1	-	-	PUNCT	PUNCT	PunctType=Dash	4	punct	_	_
2	No	no	ADV	ADV	Negative=Neg	4	neg	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	PUNCT	PunctType=Comm	4	punct	_	_
4	hombre	hombre	NOUN	NOUN	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	,	,	PUNCT	PUNCT	PunctType=Comm	4	punct	_	_
6	no	no	ADV	ADV	Negative=Neg	4	neg	_	_
7	.	.	PUNCT	PUNCT	PunctType=Peri	4	punct	_	_


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