Treebank Statistics: UD_English-PUD: POS Tags: VERB
There are 731 VERB lemmas (15%), 1111 VERB types (19%) and 2152 VERB tokens (10%).
Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of VERB is: 3 in number of lemmas, 2 in number of types and 4 in number of tokens.
The 10 most frequent VERB lemmas: have, be, say, take, make, use, become, work, begin, include
The 10 most frequent VERB types: have, said, used, took, has, began, are, had, is, became
The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: have (AUX 166, VERB 65), be (AUX 649, VERB 51), use (VERB 27, NOUN 5), work (VERB 21, NOUN 5), do (AUX 32, VERB 16), lead (VERB 16, NOUN 2), help (VERB 15, NOUN 2), get (VERB 14, AUX 2), play (VERB 14, NOUN 1), return (VERB 11, NOUN 5)
The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: have (AUX 45, VERB 35), has (AUX 58, VERB 15), are (AUX 72, VERB 13), had (AUX 53, VERB 13), is (AUX 159, VERB 13, ADP 2), do (VERB 9, AUX 8), known (VERB 9, ADJ 1), left (VERB 8, ADJ 1), get (VERB 7, AUX 1), help (VERB 7, NOUN 2)
- have
- has
- are
- had
- is
- do
- known
- left
- get
- help
Morphology
The form / lemma ratio of VERB is 1.519836 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.151896).
The 1st highest number of forms (9) was observed with the lemma “be”: ’s, are, be, been, being, is, was, were, ’s.
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 “grow”: grew, grow, growing, grown, grows.
VERB occurs with 7 features: VerbForm (2150; 100% instances), Tense (1460; 68% instances), Mood (883; 41% instances), Number (879; 41% instances), Person (878; 41% instances), Voice (416; 19% instances), ExtPos (11; 1% instances)
VERB occurs with 16 feature-value pairs: ExtPos=ADP, Mood=Imp, Mood=Ind, Mood=Sub, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, Person=1, Person=2, Person=3, Tense=Past, Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Fin, VerbForm=Ger, VerbForm=Inf, VerbForm=Part, Voice=Pass
VERB occurs with 24 feature combinations.
The most frequent feature combination is Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin (432 tokens).
Examples: said, took, became, began, told, worked, was, came, had, met
Relations
VERB nodes are attached to their parents using 21 different relations: root (808; 38% instances), advcl (261; 12% instances), conj (200; 9% instances), xcomp (192; 9% instances), acl:relcl (187; 9% instances), acl (183; 9% instances), ccomp (131; 6% instances), amod (88; 4% instances), parataxis (39; 2% instances), csubj (25; 1% instances), case (22; 1% instances), csubj:pass (4; 0% instances), appos (2; 0% instances), compound (2; 0% instances), nsubj (2; 0% instances), advcl:relcl (1; 0% instances), dislocated (1; 0% instances), fixed (1; 0% instances), nmod (1; 0% instances), nsubj:pass (1; 0% instances), orphan (1; 0% instances)
Parents of VERB nodes belong to 13 different parts of speech: (808; 38% instances), VERB (741; 34% instances), NOUN (445; 21% instances), ADJ (78; 4% instances), PROPN (48; 2% instances), PRON (14; 1% instances), ADV (6; 0% instances), NUM (5; 0% instances), SYM (2; 0% instances), X (2; 0% instances), ADP (1; 0% instances), AUX (1; 0% instances), SCONJ (1; 0% instances)
86 (4%) VERB nodes are leaves.
180 (8%) VERB nodes have one child.
368 (17%) VERB nodes have two children.
1518 (71%) VERB nodes have three or more children.
The highest child degree of a VERB node is 12.
Children of VERB nodes are attached using 37 different relations: punct (1514; 19% instances), nsubj (1105; 14% instances), obl (1100; 14% instances), obj (861; 11% instances), advmod (520; 7% instances), mark (507; 6% instances), aux (371; 5% instances), aux:pass (277; 4% instances), xcomp (252; 3% instances), advcl (250; 3% instances), nsubj:pass (243; 3% instances), cc (212; 3% instances), conj (200; 3% instances), ccomp (163; 2% instances), compound:prt (70; 1% instances), expl (45; 1% instances), parataxis (38; 0% instances), iobj (23; 0% instances), obl:unmarked (21; 0% instances), nmod:unmarked (17; 0% instances), compound (12; 0% instances), csubj (9; 0% instances), fixed (9; 0% instances), case (5; 0% instances), csubj:pass (5; 0% instances), cc:preconj (3; 0% instances), cop (3; 0% instances), acl (2; 0% instances), amod (2; 0% instances), appos (2; 0% instances), nmod (2; 0% instances), acl:relcl (1; 0% instances), det (1; 0% instances), discourse (1; 0% instances), dislocated (1; 0% instances), obl:agent (1; 0% instances), vocative (1; 0% instances)
Children of VERB nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: NOUN (2137; 27% instances), PUNCT (1514; 19% instances), VERB (741; 9% instances), AUX (653; 8% instances), PRON (631; 8% instances), PROPN (580; 7% instances), ADV (482; 6% instances), PART (308; 4% instances), SCONJ (243; 3% instances), CCONJ (213; 3% instances), ADJ (114; 1% instances), NUM (103; 1% instances), ADP (92; 1% instances), DET (20; 0% instances), SYM (15; 0% instances), X (2; 0% instances), INTJ (1; 0% instances)