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advmod: adverbial modifier

An adverbial modifier of a word is a (non-clausal) adverb or adverbial phrase that serves to modify a predicate (1, 2, 3), a modifier word (4, 5), and in some restricted cases function words (6-8).

Predicates may be a verb (1) or a predicate adjective (2) or nominal (3) in copular constructions.

Modifier words that may be modified by an adverb include numerals (4) and quantifying determiners (5).

When the negative 不 precedes a modal auxiliary, it modifies the auxiliary and not the verb (6). This is because when the verb is negated, 不 precedes the verb immediately, after the auxiliary (7). Both the auxiliary and the verb can be negated simultaneously in Mandarin (8).

Temporal expressions that are adverbs or short adverbial phrases also use the advmod relation. (However, temporal expressions that are nouns or noun phrases use the obl:tmod relation.)


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