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punct: punctuation

punct relation is used to annotate punctuation marks.

Two kinds of punctuations can be distinguished:

Coordination in the Basque UD annotation follows the general schema where the first element of the conjunction is the head, and each conjunct, conjunction complementizer or puntuation mark acting as a conjunction should be attached to the first conjunct:

Zidane, Henry, Barthez, Deschamps, Blanc eta enparauek Europako Talde sendoena osatzen dute aditu gehienentzat .

Zidane, Henry, Barthez, Deschamps, Blanc and the rest form the most robust team of Europe according to most experts .

Zidane, Henry, Barthez, Deschamps, Blanc eta enparauek Europako Talde sendoena osatzen dute aditu gehienentzat . \n Zidane, Henry, Barthez, Deschamps, Blanc and rest_the Europe_of team robust_the_most experts most_according_to .

Zidane , Henry , Barthez , Deschamps , Blanc eta enparauek Europako talde sendoena osatzen dute aditu gehienentzat .
punct(Zidane-1, ,-2)
conj(Zidane-1, Henry-3)
punct(Zidane-1, ,-4)
conj(Zidane-1, Barthez-5)
punct(Zidane-1, ,-6)
conj(Zidane-1, Deschamps-7)
conj(Zidane-1, ,-8)
conj(Zidane-1, Blanc-9)
cc(Zidane-1, eta-10)
conj(Zidane-1, enparauek-11)
nmod(talde-13, Europako-12)
dobj(osatzen-15, talde-13)
amod(talde-13, sendoena-14)
aux(osatzen-15, dute-16)
nmod(osatzen-15, aditu-17)
det(aditu-17, gehienentzat-18)
punct(osatzen-15, .-19)

Full stop is linked to the head of the sentence.

Eztabaida handia sortu du aldaketak .

The change has caused a huge discussion .

Eztabaida handia sortu du aldaketak .\n Discussion huge_a caused has change_the .  

amod(Eztabaida-1, handia-2)
nobj(sortu-3, Eztabaida-1)
aux(sortu-3, du-4)
nsubj(sortu-3, aldaketak-5)
punct(sortu-3, .-6)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Basque)

This relation is universal.

19808 nodes (16%) are attached to their parents as punct.

15294 instances of punct (77%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 5.93820678513732.

The following 19 pairs of parts of speech are connected with punct: eu-pos/VERB-eu-pos/PUNCT (16109; 81% instances), eu-pos/NOUN-eu-pos/PUNCT (2099; 11% instances), eu-pos/ADJ-eu-pos/PUNCT (616; 3% instances), eu-pos/PROPN-eu-pos/PUNCT (593; 3% instances), eu-pos/ADV-eu-pos/PUNCT (100; 1% instances), eu-pos/NUM-eu-pos/PUNCT (78; 0% instances), eu-pos/CONJ-eu-pos/PUNCT (52; 0% instances), eu-pos/AUX-eu-pos/PUNCT (47; 0% instances), eu-pos/DET-eu-pos/PUNCT (42; 0% instances), eu-pos/PUNCT-eu-pos/PUNCT (32; 0% instances), eu-pos/ADP-eu-pos/PUNCT (16; 0% instances), eu-pos/VERB-eu-pos/CONJ (6; 0% instances), eu-pos/VERB-eu-pos/PROPN (6; 0% instances), eu-pos/X-eu-pos/PUNCT (4; 0% instances), eu-pos/NOUN-eu-pos/PROPN (3; 0% instances), eu-pos/PART-eu-pos/PUNCT (2; 0% instances), eu-pos/INTJ-eu-pos/PUNCT (1; 0% instances), eu-pos/PRON-eu-pos/PUNCT (1; 0% instances), eu-pos/VERB-eu-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances).

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1	Atenasen	Atenas	PROPN	_	Case=Ine|Definite=Def|Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
2	ordea	ordea	CONJ	_	_	8	advmod	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	8	punct	_	_
4	beste	beste	DET	_	_	6	det	_	_
5	bost	bost	NUM	_	_	6	nummod	_	_
6	jarduera	jarduera	NOUN	_	Case=Abs|Definite=Ind	8	nsubj	_	_
7	gehiago	gehiago	DET	_	Case=Abs|Definite=Ind	6	det	_	_
8	izan	izan	VERB	_	Aspect=Perf|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
9	daitezke	*edin	AUX	_	Mood=Pot|Number[abs]=Plur|Person[abs]=3	8	aux	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	8	punct	_	_

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1	Gure	gu	PRON	_	PronType=Prs	2	nmod	_	_
2	etxea	etxe	NOUN	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Sing	11	dobj	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	11	punct	_	_
4	egun	egun	NOUN	_	_	11	nmod	_	_
5	batean	bat	NUM	_	NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	11	punct	_	_
7	ordu	ordu	NOUN	_	_	4	appos	_	_
8	batzuetan	batzuk	DET	_	Case=Ine|Definite=Def|Number=Plur	7	det	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	4	punct	_	_
10	zeharo	zeharo	ADV	_	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	aldatu	aldatu	VERB	_	Aspect=Perf|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
12	zen	izan	AUX	_	Mood=Ind|Number[abs]=Sing|Person[abs]=3	11	aux	_	_
13	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	11	punct	_	_

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1	Hurrengo	hurrengo	ADJ	_	_	2	amod	_	_
2	orrialdeko	orrialde	NOUN	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Loc|Definite=Def|Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
3	mapa	mapa	NOUN	_	Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	baliagarria	baliagarri	ADJ	_	Case=Abs|Definite=Def|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	izan	izan	VERB	_	VerbForm=Inf	4	cop	_	_
6	dakizuke	*edin	AUX	_	Mood=Pot|Number[abs]=Sing|Number[dat]=Sing|Person[abs]=3|Person[dat]=2	5	aux	_	_
7	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	4	punct	_	_


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