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punct: punctuation

This element is used for any piece of punctuation in a clause. The last punctuation mark of the sentence (usually a full stop or interrogative/exclamation point) always depends on the root; commas, apexes and punctuation elements depend on the head of the clause, or the complement, they refer to. In general, tokens with the relation punct always attach to content words (except in cases of ellipsis) and can never have dependents on their own.

" Chirac , ricorda ti Hiroshima "
punct(Chirac, "-1)
punct(Chirac, ,)
punct(Chirac, "-7)
I carri armati , quando si muovevano , andavano a Budapest
punct(carri, ,-4)
punct(muovevano, ,-8)

Punctuation marks separating coordinated units must be all attached to the first conjunct.

Proiettavano Dreyer , Bergman , Kazan , De Sica 
punct(Dreyer, ,-3)
punct(Dreyer, ,-5)
punct(Dreyer, ,-7)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)

This relation is universal.

33296 nodes (11%) are attached to their parents as punct.

30138 instances of punct (91%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 9.15785679961557.

The following 17 pairs of parts of speech are connected with punct: it-pos/VERB-it-pos/PUNCT (15377; 46% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/PUNCT (9652; 29% instances), it-pos/PROPN-it-pos/PUNCT (2830; 8% instances), it-pos/NUM-it-pos/PUNCT (1696; 5% instances), it-pos/ADJ-it-pos/PUNCT (1681; 5% instances), it-pos/PRON-it-pos/PUNCT (1132; 3% instances), it-pos/ADV-it-pos/PUNCT (597; 2% instances), it-pos/CONJ-it-pos/PUNCT (77; 0% instances), it-pos/X-it-pos/PUNCT (72; 0% instances), it-pos/PUNCT-it-pos/PUNCT (57; 0% instances), it-pos/INTJ-it-pos/PUNCT (56; 0% instances), it-pos/AUX-it-pos/PUNCT (42; 0% instances), it-pos/SCONJ-it-pos/PUNCT (15; 0% instances), it-pos/DET-it-pos/PUNCT (5; 0% instances), it-pos/ADP-it-pos/PUNCT (3; 0% instances), it-pos/SYM-it-pos/PUNCT (3; 0% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/CONJ (1; 0% instances).

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1	Tutti	tutto	DET	T	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|PronType=Predet	3	det:predet	_	_
2	gli	il	DET	RD	Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	esseri	essere	NOUN	S	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	umani	umano	ADJ	A	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	3	amod	_	_
5	sanno	sapere	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	di	di	ADP	E	_	9	mark	_	_
7	poter	potere	AUX	VM	VerbForm=Inf	9	aux	_	_
8	essere	essere	VERB	V	VerbForm=Inf	9	cop	_	_
9	più	più	ADV	B	_	5	xcomp	_	_
10	di	di	ADP	E	_	11	case	_	_
11	ciò	ciò	PRON	PD	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	nmod	_	_
12	che	che	PRON	PR	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	sono	essere	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	FS	_	5	punct	_	_

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1	Sorpresa	sorpresa	NOUN	S	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	in	in	ADP	E	_	4	case	_	_
3	la	il	DET	RD	Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sorpresa	sorpresa	NOUN	S	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	FC	_	1	punct	_	_

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1	Tudjman	Tudjman	PROPN	SP	_	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	FF	_	1	punct	_	_
3	l'	il	DET	RD	Definite=Def|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	4	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	arte	arte	NOUN	S	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	di	di	ADP	E	_	7	case	_	_
6	la	il	DET	RD	Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	vendetta	vendetta	NOUN	S	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	FS	_	1	punct	_	_


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