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Treebank Statistics: UD_English-EWT: POS Tags: VERB

There are 2017 VERB lemmas (11%), 3908 VERB types (17%) and 28023 VERB tokens (11%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of VERB is: 4 in number of lemmas, 3 in number of types and 3 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent VERB lemmas: have, go, get, do, be, know, say, make, take, want

The 10 most frequent VERB types: have, get, know, had, go, do, want, said, see, going

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: have (VERB 1668, AUX 1597), go (VERB 760, NOUN 3, PROPN 1), get (VERB 730, AUX 54), do (AUX 1152, VERB 652, NOUN 2, PROPN 1), be (AUX 8928, VERB 573, NOUN 2), know (VERB 551, NOUN 1), say (VERB 545, INTJ 4), take (VERB 484, NOUN 8), see (VERB 371, NOUN 1), use (VERB 348, NOUN 23, ADJ 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: have (VERB 936, AUX 722), get (VERB 456, AUX 26, X 1), know (VERB 443, ADV 1, NOUN 1), had (VERB 398, AUX 184), go (VERB 330, NOUN 3, PROPN 1), do (AUX 582, VERB 325, NOUN 2, ADP 1, ADV 1, PROPN 1), see (VERB 235, NOUN 1), going (VERB 239, X 1), take (VERB 222, NOUN 8), need (VERB 229, NOUN 18)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of VERB is 1.937531 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.234270).

The 1st highest number of forms (12) was observed with the lemma “be”: ‘m, ‘s, am, are, be, been, is, s, was, were, where, ’s.

The 2nd highest number of forms (10) was observed with the lemma “recommend”: Rcommended, reccomend, reccommend, recomend, recomended, recoment, recommend, recommended, recommending, recommends.

The 3rd highest number of forms (9) was observed with the lemma “bear”: b., bare, bear, beared, bearing, bears, bore, born, botn.

VERB occurs with 10 features: VerbForm (28023; 100% instances), Tense (15133; 54% instances), Mood (10990; 39% instances), Person (9540; 34% instances), Number (9537; 34% instances), Voice (1439; 5% instances), Typo (152; 1% instances), ExtPos (46; 0% instances), Abbr (25; 0% instances), Style (4; 0% instances)

VERB occurs with 20 feature-value pairs: Abbr=Yes, ExtPos=ADP, Mood=Imp, Mood=Ind, Mood=Sub, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, Person=1, Person=2, Person=3, Style=Expr, Style=Vrnc, Tense=Past, Tense=Pres, Typo=Yes, VerbForm=Fin, VerbForm=Ger, VerbForm=Inf, VerbForm=Part, Voice=Pass

VERB occurs with 53 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is VerbForm=Inf (8645 tokens). Examples: have, get, know, do, go, make, take, see, like, find

Relations

VERB nodes are attached to their parents using 29 different relations: root (9288; 33% instances), advcl (3795; 14% instances), conj (3587; 13% instances), xcomp (2784; 10% instances), acl:relcl (2059; 7% instances), ccomp (1851; 7% instances), acl (1753; 6% instances), parataxis (1228; 4% instances), amod (819; 3% instances), csubj (327; 1% instances), case (202; 1% instances), advcl:relcl (88; 0% instances), appos (76; 0% instances), compound (58; 0% instances), list (16; 0% instances), fixed (13; 0% instances), obj (13; 0% instances), discourse (12; 0% instances), reparandum (9; 0% instances), csubj:outer (8; 0% instances), nsubj (8; 0% instances), obl (8; 0% instances), csubj:pass (7; 0% instances), orphan (6; 0% instances), cc (3; 0% instances), obl:npmod (2; 0% instances), flat (1; 0% instances), mark (1; 0% instances), nmod (1; 0% instances)

Parents of VERB nodes belong to 16 different parts of speech: VERB (10937; 39% instances), (9288; 33% instances), NOUN (5012; 18% instances), ADJ (1660; 6% instances), PRON (386; 1% instances), PROPN (321; 1% instances), ADV (205; 1% instances), DET (62; 0% instances), NUM (62; 0% instances), AUX (35; 0% instances), SYM (25; 0% instances), PART (10; 0% instances), X (9; 0% instances), ADP (6; 0% instances), SCONJ (3; 0% instances), INTJ (2; 0% instances)

1043 (4%) VERB nodes are leaves.

2410 (9%) VERB nodes have one child.

5112 (18%) VERB nodes have two children.

19458 (69%) VERB nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a VERB node is 17.

Children of VERB nodes are attached using 46 different relations: punct (14924; 15% instances), nsubj (14742; 15% instances), obj (12227; 12% instances), obl (9460; 9% instances), advmod (8609; 9% instances), mark (7492; 7% instances), aux (7290; 7% instances), cc (3566; 4% instances), xcomp (3526; 4% instances), advcl (3455; 3% instances), conj (3430; 3% instances), ccomp (2306; 2% instances), aux:pass (1614; 2% instances), nsubj:pass (1389; 1% instances), parataxis (1098; 1% instances), compound:prt (912; 1% instances), iobj (791; 1% instances), discourse (653; 1% instances), obl:tmod (588; 1% instances), expl (556; 1% instances), cop (230; 0% instances), obl:npmod (214; 0% instances), nsubj:outer (200; 0% instances), compound (122; 0% instances), csubj (104; 0% instances), vocative (71; 0% instances), nummod (64; 0% instances), fixed (49; 0% instances), advcl:relcl (46; 0% instances), appos (31; 0% instances), reparandum (26; 0% instances), cc:preconj (25; 0% instances), det (21; 0% instances), list (17; 0% instances), goeswith (11; 0% instances), acl (9; 0% instances), csubj:outer (9; 0% instances), csubj:pass (8; 0% instances), amod (7; 0% instances), case (5; 0% instances), dislocated (3; 0% instances), dep (1; 0% instances), flat (1; 0% instances), nmod (1; 0% instances), nmod:poss (1; 0% instances), nmod:tmod (1; 0% instances)

Children of VERB nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: NOUN (20484; 21% instances), PRON (15386; 15% instances), PUNCT (14924; 15% instances), VERB (10937; 11% instances), AUX (9189; 9% instances), ADV (7292; 7% instances), PART (5350; 5% instances), PROPN (4251; 4% instances), SCONJ (3632; 4% instances), CCONJ (3553; 4% instances), ADJ (2026; 2% instances), ADP (1265; 1% instances), INTJ (573; 1% instances), NUM (482; 0% instances), DET (286; 0% instances), SYM (206; 0% instances), X (69; 0% instances)