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aux: auxiliary

An auxiliary of a clause is a non-main verb of the clause.

Exception: An auxiliary verb used to construct the passive voice is not labeled aux but auxpass.

On peut nager dans le lac \n One can swim in the lake
aux(nager, peut)
Quelles conséquences cela a - t - il eu ? \n What consequences did this have ?
aux(eu, a)

Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

This relation is universal.

6157 nodes (2%) are attached to their parents as aux.

6151 instances of aux (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.53029072600292.

The following 8 pairs of parts of speech are connected with aux: fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/AUX (5944; 97% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/AUX (107; 2% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/AUX (91; 1% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/AUX (9; 0% instances), fr-pos/NUM-fr-pos/AUX (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/AUX (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADV-fr-pos/AUX (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/INTJ-fr-pos/AUX (1; 0% instances).

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1	Elle	elle	PRON	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fonce	foncer	VERB	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	et	et	CONJ	_	_	2	cc	_	_
4	c'	ce	PRON	_	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
5	est	être	VERB	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
6	cette	ce	DET	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	audace	audace	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	5	dobj	_	_
8	qui	qui	PRON	_	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	est	être	AUX	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	récompensée	récompenser	VERB	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	2	punct	_	_

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1	En	en	ADP	_	_	2	case	_	_
2	1927	1927	NUM	_	_	6	nmod	_	_
3	Marilyn	Marilyn	PROPN	_	_	6	nsubj	_	_
4	Monroe	Monroe	PROPN	_	_	3	name	_	_
5	était	être	AUX	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	âgée	âgé	ADJ	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	d'	de	ADP	_	_	9	case	_	_
8	un	un	DET	_	Definite=Ind|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	an	an	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	6	punct	_	_

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1	Il	il	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	a	avoir	AUX	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	également	également	ADV	_	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	été	être	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	cop	_	_
5	capitaine	capitaine	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	de	de	ADP	_	_	8	case	_	_
7	l'	le	DET	_	Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	équipe	équipe	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	bruxelloise	bruxellois	ADJ	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	8	amod	_	_
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	5	punct	_	_


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