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Treebank Statistics: UD_English-GUM: POS Tags: VERB

There are 2123 VERB lemmas (13%), 4023 VERB types (20%) and 22278 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, know, go, make, do, get, say, be, take, think

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

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: have (AUX 1082, VERB 869), go (VERB 512, NOUN 7), do (AUX 828, VERB 468, NOUN 4, PROPN 3), get (VERB 448, AUX 27), be (AUX 7080, VERB 409), take (VERB 356, NOUN 3), use (VERB 291, NOUN 72), look (VERB 218, NOUN 10), call (VERB 164, NOUN 17), try (VERB 162, NOUN 4, INTJ 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: have (VERB 513, AUX 385), do (AUX 388, VERB 251, NOUN 3, PROPN 3, PART 1), get (VERB 222, AUX 17), said (VERB 209, ADJ 1), go (VERB 185, NOUN 4), had (AUX 190, VERB 173), take (VERB 151, NOUN 3), has (AUX 277, VERB 133), look (VERB 98, NOUN 10), got (VERB 111, AUX 6)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of VERB is 1.894960 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.236974).

The 1st highest number of forms (14) was observed with the lemma “be”: ‘m, ‘re, ‘s, ai, are, be, been, being, is, s, was, were, where, ’s.

The 2nd highest number of forms (6) was observed with the lemma “believe”: belidve, belie-, believe, believed, believes, believing.

The 3rd highest number of forms (6) was observed with the lemma “do”: did, do, does, doing, done, to.

VERB occurs with 10 features: VerbForm (22273; 100% instances), Tense (14313; 64% instances), Person (9275; 42% instances), Mood (9165; 41% instances), Number (8193; 37% instances), Voice (3008; 14% instances), Style (127; 1% instances), Typo (72; 0% instances), Polarity (13; 0% instances), Abbr (9; 0% instances)

VERB occurs with 19 feature-value pairs: Abbr=Yes, Mood=Imp, Mood=Ind, Mood=Sub, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, Person=1, Person=2, Person=3, Polarity=Neg, Style=Vrnc, Tense=Past, Tense=Pres, Typo=Yes, VerbForm=Fin, VerbForm=Ger, VerbForm=Inf, VerbForm=Part, Voice=Pass

VERB occurs with 51 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is VerbForm=Inf (5618 tokens). Examples: have, do, make, get, know, go, see, take, say, find

Relations

VERB nodes are attached to their parents using 28 different relations: root (7731; 35% instances), advcl (2952; 13% instances), conj (2581; 12% instances), xcomp (2038; 9% instances), acl:relcl (1761; 8% instances), acl (1617; 7% instances), ccomp (961; 4% instances), amod (918; 4% instances), parataxis (883; 4% instances), csubj (272; 1% instances), advcl:relcl (211; 1% instances), case (104; 0% instances), reparandum (82; 0% instances), appos (44; 0% instances), dep (22; 0% instances), compound (21; 0% instances), discourse (21; 0% instances), csubj:pass (14; 0% instances), obl (9; 0% instances), nmod (7; 0% instances), csubj:outer (6; 0% instances), orphan (6; 0% instances), dislocated (5; 0% instances), fixed (3; 0% instances), mark (3; 0% instances), nsubj (3; 0% instances), nsubj:pass (2; 0% instances), obj (1; 0% instances)

Parents of VERB nodes belong to 16 different parts of speech: VERB (8251; 37% instances), (7731; 35% instances), NOUN (4042; 18% instances), ADJ (924; 4% instances), PRON (430; 2% instances), PROPN (408; 2% instances), ADV (338; 2% instances), NUM (50; 0% instances), DET (44; 0% instances), AUX (36; 0% instances), INTJ (9; 0% instances), ADP (5; 0% instances), X (5; 0% instances), SYM (3; 0% instances), PART (1; 0% instances), SCONJ (1; 0% instances)

972 (4%) VERB nodes are leaves.

1994 (9%) VERB nodes have one child.

3965 (18%) VERB nodes have two children.

15347 (69%) VERB nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a VERB node is 13.

Children of VERB nodes are attached using 45 different relations: punct (12235; 16% instances), nsubj (11370; 14% instances), obj (9441; 12% instances), obl (8075; 10% instances), advmod (6336; 8% instances), mark (5365; 7% instances), aux (4585; 6% instances), advcl (2888; 4% instances), cc (2836; 4% instances), xcomp (2752; 4% instances), conj (2548; 3% instances), aux:pass (1583; 2% instances), nsubj:pass (1430; 2% instances), ccomp (1380; 2% instances), compound:prt (834; 1% instances), parataxis (832; 1% instances), discourse (726; 1% instances), expl (461; 1% instances), obl:tmod (384; 0% instances), iobj (381; 0% instances), obl:agent (377; 0% instances), dep (334; 0% instances), reparandum (242; 0% instances), cop (185; 0% instances), nsubj:outer (178; 0% instances), obl:npmod (148; 0% instances), compound (135; 0% instances), csubj (102; 0% instances), vocative (87; 0% instances), fixed (45; 0% instances), advcl:relcl (44; 0% instances), dislocated (33; 0% instances), case (24; 0% instances), csubj:pass (17; 0% instances), cc:preconj (16; 0% instances), det (12; 0% instances), amod (11; 0% instances), csubj:outer (9; 0% instances), appos (8; 0% instances), goeswith (4; 0% instances), acl (3; 0% instances), nmod (3; 0% instances), acl:relcl (2; 0% instances), list (2; 0% instances), orphan (2; 0% instances)

Children of VERB nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: NOUN (17857; 23% instances), PUNCT (12235; 16% instances), PRON (11305; 14% instances), VERB (8251; 11% instances), AUX (6508; 8% instances), ADV (5681; 7% instances), PART (3756; 5% instances), PROPN (2998; 4% instances), CCONJ (2849; 4% instances), SCONJ (2624; 3% instances), ADJ (1444; 2% instances), ADP (1065; 1% instances), NUM (820; 1% instances), INTJ (713; 1% instances), DET (253; 0% instances), X (70; 0% instances), SYM (36; 0% instances)