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compound: compound

The compound relation is used primarily for noun-noun compounds (for verb and verb-object compounds, see compound:dir, compound:ext, compound:vo, and compound:vv). This applies to any nominal preceding and modifying another nominal unless the relationship between the two is a possessive one (see nmod). The latter nominal is typically the head of the compound.

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1	中文	_	NOUN	_	_	2	compound	_	Chinese-language
2	試卷	_	NOUN	_	_	0	root	_	exam-paper

1	"Chinese	_	_	_	_	0	_	_	_
2	language	_	_	_	_	0	_	_	_
3	exam	_	_	_	_	0	_	_	_
4	paper"	_	_	_	_	0	_	_	_

Names preceding titles or relationship roles are also treated as noun compounds, as well as names of companies or institutions with internal combinations of proper nouns with regular nouns.

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1	馬	_	PROPN	_	_	2	compound	_	Ma
2	先生	_	NOUN	_	_	0	root	_	Mr.

1	"Mr	_	_	_	_	0	_	_	_
2	Mǎ"	_	_	_	_	0	_	_	_

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1	威威	_	PROPN	_	_	3	compound	_	Wēiwēi
2	職業	_	NOUN	_	_	3	compound	_	employment
3	介紹所	_	NOUN	_	_	0	root	_	agency

1	"Wēiwēi	_	_	_	_	0	_	_	_
2	Employment	_	_	_	_	0	_	_	_
3	Agency"	_	_	_	_	0	_	_	_

Internal compounding should always be parsed first. For example, in (3) the last two nouns 職業 介紹所 / zhíyè jièshàosuǒ “employment agency” form a compound first before compounding with the proper noun 威威 / Wēiwēi; but in (4), 警察 招募 / jǐngchá “police recruitment” form a compound first before compounding further with 廣告 / guǎnggào “advertisement”.

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1	警察	_	NOUN	_	_	2	compound	_	police
2	招募	_	NOUN	_	_	3	compound	_	recruitment
3	廣告	_	NOUN	_	_	0	root	_	advertisement

1	"police	_	_	_	_	0	_	_	_
2	recruitment	_	_	_	_	0	_	_	_
3	ad"	_	_	_	_	0	_	_	_


compound in other languages: [bej] [cop] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [et] [eu] [fi] [fr] [ga] [gd] [gsw] [hu] [hy] [it] [ja] [kk] [ky] [no] [pcm] [pt] [qpm] [ro] [ru] [sv] [swl] [tr] [u] [urj] [yue] [zh]