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flat:foreign: foreign words

Some English treebanks use flat:foreign to label sequences of foreign words. These are given a linear analysis: the head is the first token in the foreign phrase. Most of the English treebanks, however, use plain flat in such cases.

I guess that c' est la vie
nsubj(guess-2, I-1)
ccomp(guess-2, c'-4)
mark(c'-4, that-3)
flat:foreign(c'-4, est-5)
flat:foreign(c'-4, la-6)
flat:foreign(c'-4, vie-7)

See the general policy on Foreign Expressions and Code-Switching.


flat:foreign in other languages: [cs] [en] [fr] [ga] [it] [ka] [kpv] [no] [pl] [ru] [tr] [u] [vi]