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Treebank Statistics: UD_English-LinES: POS Tags: VERB

There are 1604 VERB lemmas (18%), 2702 VERB types (24%) and 11098 VERB tokens (12%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of VERB is: 3 in number of lemmas, 2 in number of types and 3 in number of tokens.

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

The 10 most frequent VERB types: said, was, know, had, have, see, is, made, do, come

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: be (AUX 2769, VERB 523), say (VERB 368, ADJ 1), have (AUX 924, VERB 276), make (VERB 203, ADJ 1, NOUN 1), see (VERB 200, ADJ 1), come (VERB 183, ADJ 2), do (AUX 299, VERB 168), look (VERB 148, NOUN 20, ADJ 3), get (VERB 138, AUX 14), use (VERB 136, NOUN 17, ADJ 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: said (VERB 252, ADJ 1), was (AUX 875, VERB 242), had (AUX 543, VERB 129), have (AUX 175, VERB 107), is (AUX 510, VERB 91), do (AUX 113, VERB 82), get (VERB 64, AUX 3), want (VERB 59, NOUN 1), got (VERB 55, AUX 11), were (AUX 250, VERB 52)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of VERB is 1.684539 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.241418).

The 1st highest number of forms (10) was observed with the lemma “be”: ‘m, ‘re, ‘s, am, are, be, been, is, was, were.

The 2nd highest number of forms (5) was observed with the lemma “begin”: began, begin, beginning, begins, begun.

The 3rd highest number of forms (5) was observed with the lemma “contain”: contain, contained, containing, contains, self-contained.

VERB occurs with 8 features: VerbForm (10780; 97% instances), Tense (8136; 73% instances), Mood (5069; 46% instances), Voice (1197; 11% instances), Number (897; 8% instances), Person (895; 8% instances), Case (312; 3% instances), Degree (2; 0% instances)

VERB occurs with 15 feature-value pairs: Case=Nom, Degree=Pos, Mood=Imp, Mood=Ind, Mood=Sub, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, Person=1, Person=3, Tense=Past, Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Fin, VerbForm=Inf, VerbForm=Part, Voice=Pass

VERB occurs with 28 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin (3227 tokens). Examples: said, had, came, seemed, looked, went, made, felt, got, saw

Relations

VERB nodes are attached to their parents using 21 different relations: root (4077; 37% instances), conj (1754; 16% instances), advcl (1519; 14% instances), xcomp (936; 8% instances), acl (875; 8% instances), acl:relcl (698; 6% instances), ccomp (604; 5% instances), parataxis (288; 3% instances), csubj (159; 1% instances), appos (57; 1% instances), obj (28; 0% instances), compound (27; 0% instances), dislocated (22; 0% instances), amod (20; 0% instances), discourse (12; 0% instances), obl (8; 0% instances), csubj:pass (6; 0% instances), nmod (4; 0% instances), nsubj (2; 0% instances), advmod (1; 0% instances), csubj:outer (1; 0% instances)

Parents of VERB nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: VERB (4738; 43% instances), (4077; 37% instances), NOUN (1478; 13% instances), ADJ (426; 4% instances), PRON (160; 1% instances), ADV (85; 1% instances), PROPN (67; 1% instances), AUX (48; 0% instances), NUM (7; 0% instances), INTJ (4; 0% instances), PART (4; 0% instances), ADP (1; 0% instances), CCONJ (1; 0% instances), SCONJ (1; 0% instances), X (1; 0% instances)

115 (1%) VERB nodes are leaves.

805 (7%) VERB nodes have one child.

1827 (16%) VERB nodes have two children.

8351 (75%) VERB nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a VERB node is 13.

Children of VERB nodes are attached using 40 different relations: punct (6806; 17% instances), nsubj (6482; 16% instances), obl (4889; 12% instances), obj (4385; 11% instances), advmod (3391; 8% instances), mark (2799; 7% instances), aux (2497; 6% instances), conj (1719; 4% instances), cc (1465; 4% instances), advcl (1457; 4% instances), xcomp (1357; 3% instances), aux:pass (763; 2% instances), ccomp (729; 2% instances), nsubj:pass (673; 2% instances), compound:prt (423; 1% instances), parataxis (278; 1% instances), expl (250; 1% instances), discourse (128; 0% instances), dislocated (109; 0% instances), iobj (85; 0% instances), appos (79; 0% instances), cop (72; 0% instances), csubj (71; 0% instances), vocative (71; 0% instances), det (68; 0% instances), amod (31; 0% instances), compound (22; 0% instances), case (21; 0% instances), nsubj:outer (21; 0% instances), nmod:poss (15; 0% instances), acl (13; 0% instances), nmod (9; 0% instances), acl:relcl (7; 0% instances), csubj:pass (6; 0% instances), flat (5; 0% instances), fixed (3; 0% instances), orphan (3; 0% instances), nummod (2; 0% instances), csubj:outer (1; 0% instances), dep (1; 0% instances)

Children of VERB nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: NOUN (9256; 22% instances), PUNCT (6806; 17% instances), PRON (6438; 16% instances), VERB (4738; 11% instances), AUX (3396; 8% instances), ADV (3240; 8% instances), PART (1795; 4% instances), CCONJ (1467; 4% instances), PROPN (1386; 3% instances), SCONJ (1172; 3% instances), ADJ (773; 2% instances), ADP (445; 1% instances), INTJ (109; 0% instances), NUM (106; 0% instances), DET (71; 0% instances), X (6; 0% instances), SYM (2; 0% instances)