VERB

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`VERB`: verb

Definition

A verb is a member of the syntactic class of words that typically signal events and actions, can constitute a minimal predicate in a clause, and govern the number and types of other constituents which may occur in the clause.

The tag VERB is reserved for full lexical verbs, while auxiliary verbs are tagged AUX.

Examples

at vise “to show”, jeg viser “I show”, han viste “he showed”
at flyve “to fly”, vi flyver “we fly”, de fløj “they flew”

Treebank Statistics (UD_Danish)

There are 1473 VERB lemmas (11%), 3002 VERB types (17%) and 9607 VERB tokens (11%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of VERB is: 4 in number of lemmas, 2 in number of types and 4 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent VERB lemmas: være, få, have, sige, komme, gå, se, gøre, tage, give

The 10 most frequent VERB types: er, har, siger, få, var, får, sagde, fik, kommer, se

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: være (AUX 1834, VERB 536), få (VERB 348, ADJ 27), have (AUX 774, VERB 347, NOUN 4, X 1), gå (VERB 202, X 1), stå (VERB 87, NOUN 2), ske (VERB 61, NOUN 1), sætte (VERB 59, X 1), blive (AUX 409, VERB 54), tro (VERB 52, NOUN 4, ADJ 1), tale (VERB 39, NOUN 29)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: er (AUX 1225, VERB 330), har (AUX 613, VERB 207, X 1), få (VERB 117, ADJ 18), var (AUX 351, VERB 114), får (VERB 91, NOUN 1), gå (VERB 62, X 1), går (VERB 55, NOUN 47), havde (AUX 115, VERB 54), have (VERB 50, AUX 43, NOUN 2, X 1), være (AUX 161, VERB 50)

er
- AUX 1225: - Hvad er det , du siger ?
- VERB 330: Jeg ved ikke , om jeg er ved at kede mig , eller om jeg bare er doven .
har
- AUX 613: ” Han skulle ha’ en lærestreg for alle de rædsler , han har begået .
- VERB 207: Kyllingerne her har meget mere plads .
- X 1: Som leder af Filmskolen i Danmark har har således været med til at udvirke , at instruktøren Gert Fredholm netop nu er på vej til Zimbabwe for at opbygge en filmuddannelse .
få
- VERB 117: Den lille mand på gaden sagde det også : Vi skulle få det til at glide
- ADJ 18: Ubehaget varer oftest kun nogle få dage .
var
- AUX 351: H.L. Hansen var en udsædvanlig og frodig personlighed .
- VERB 114: Men det lod sig ikke vurdere , hvor repræsentativ denne stemning var .
får
- VERB 91: Men når hun får opereret knæet , slipper hun for smerten .
- NOUN 1: Her bor jeg alene med seks får , 20 høns og en tysk ruhårshund .
gå
- VERB 62: ” Denne tredeling må vi nødvendigvis gå i gang med .
- X 1: Hvis en statsminister er maniodepressiv ( det var Viggo Kampmann ) , har det historisk relevans , fordi man gå ud fra , at en mand , der lider af en alvorlig sindssygdom , ikke i alle situationer er forretningsduelig .
går
- VERB 55: Han ser sig om i hendes hyggelige stue og går så mod udgangsdøren .
- NOUN 47: De kunne netop i går fejre , at de er færdiguddannede .
havde
- AUX 115: Og tyskerne havde fået det chok , de aldrig overvandt .
- VERB 54: Men Karin havde andre tanker .
have
- VERB 50: Alene i Hamburg skulle de have has på 750 ton ophobet skrald .
- AUX 43: Hun må have handlet af kærlighed til dig .
- NOUN 2: Men hun indrømmer , at hun i samme øjeblik som ulykken skete , havde sin opmærksomhed rettet mod en have på hendes venstre side .
- X 1: And some day we shall have our revenge .
være
- AUX 161: Hvem der skal spille op til dans , skal helst være en overraskelse .
- VERB 50: ” Det er at være under konstant pres .

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of VERB is 2.038018 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.349187).

The 1st highest number of forms (9) was observed with the lemma “give”: Gi, Giv, gav, gi’r, gir, give, giver, gives, givet.

The 2nd highest number of forms (9) was observed with the lemma “tage”: Ta, ta’, tag, tage, tager, tages, taget, tar’, tog.

The 3rd highest number of forms (7) was observed with the lemma “sige”: sagde, sagt, sige, sigende, siger, siges, sir.

VERB occurs with 8 features: da-feat/VerbForm (9450; 98% instances), da-feat/Voice (7429; 77% instances), da-feat/Tense (7033; 73% instances), da-feat/Mood (5183; 54% instances), da-feat/Number (1785; 19% instances), da-feat/Definite (1652; 17% instances), da-feat/Gender (2; 0% instances), da-feat/Case (1; 0% instances)

VERB occurs with 16 feature-value pairs: Case=Gen, Definite=Def, Definite=Ind, Gender=Com, Mood=Imp, Mood=Ind, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, Tense=Past, Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Fin, VerbForm=Ger, VerbForm=Inf, VerbForm=Part, Voice=Act, Voice=Pass

VERB occurs with 16 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act (3098 tokens). Examples: er, har, siger, får, kommer, går, ved, gør, mener, giver

Relations

VERB nodes are attached to their parents using 21 different relations: da-dep/root (3530; 37% instances), da-dep/acl:relcl (1507; 16% instances), da-dep/conj (1246; 13% instances), da-dep/advcl (985; 10% instances), da-dep/ccomp (476; 5% instances), da-dep/xcomp (456; 5% instances), da-dep/advmod (420; 4% instances), da-dep/obj (395; 4% instances), da-dep/amod (393; 4% instances), da-dep/dep (52; 1% instances), da-dep/case (31; 0% instances), da-dep/mark (31; 0% instances), da-dep/list (23; 0% instances), da-dep/nsubj (19; 0% instances), da-dep/nmod (18; 0% instances), da-dep/fixed (9; 0% instances), da-dep/nmod:poss (7; 0% instances), da-dep/obl:loc (4; 0% instances), da-dep/appos (3; 0% instances), da-dep/parataxis (1; 0% instances), da-dep/reparandum (1; 0% instances)

Parents of VERB nodes belong to 16 different parts of speech: ROOT (3530; 37% instances), VERB (3291; 34% instances), NOUN (1517; 16% instances), PRON (435; 5% instances), ADJ (312; 3% instances), ADV (261; 3% instances), PROPN (140; 1% instances), INTJ (35; 0% instances), CCONJ (21; 0% instances), ADP (19; 0% instances), NUM (14; 0% instances), X (13; 0% instances), AUX (8; 0% instances), PART (7; 0% instances), DET (3; 0% instances), SYM (1; 0% instances)

539 (6%) VERB nodes are leaves.

452 (5%) VERB nodes have one child.

882 (9%) VERB nodes have two children.

7734 (81%) VERB nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a VERB node is 18.

Children of VERB nodes are attached using 32 different relations: da-dep/punct (6928; 18% instances), da-dep/nsubj (6625; 17% instances), da-dep/obj (4443; 12% instances), da-dep/obl (4249; 11% instances), da-dep/advmod (3976; 10% instances), da-dep/mark (3558; 9% instances), da-dep/aux (2597; 7% instances), da-dep/cc (1355; 4% instances), da-dep/conj (1163; 3% instances), da-dep/obl:loc (546; 1% instances), da-dep/ccomp (510; 1% instances), da-dep/advcl (488; 1% instances), da-dep/amod (474; 1% instances), da-dep/xcomp (446; 1% instances), da-dep/expl (392; 1% instances), da-dep/compound:prt (260; 1% instances), da-dep/iobj (139; 0% instances), da-dep/dep (132; 0% instances), da-dep/nummod (74; 0% instances), da-dep/obl:tmod (59; 0% instances), da-dep/acl:relcl (58; 0% instances), da-dep/nmod (24; 0% instances), da-dep/discourse (21; 0% instances), da-dep/vocative (18; 0% instances), da-dep/fixed (4; 0% instances), da-dep/flat (2; 0% instances), da-dep/list (2; 0% instances), da-dep/appos (1; 0% instances), da-dep/case (1; 0% instances), da-dep/cop (1; 0% instances), da-dep/nmod:poss (1; 0% instances), da-dep/reparandum (1; 0% instances)

Children of VERB nodes belong to 16 different parts of speech: NOUN (8855; 23% instances), PUNCT (6924; 18% instances), PRON (4790; 12% instances), ADV (4742; 12% instances), VERB (3291; 9% instances), AUX (2598; 7% instances), CCONJ (1377; 4% instances), PROPN (1333; 3% instances), SCONJ (1307; 3% instances), ADP (1266; 3% instances), PART (1025; 3% instances), ADJ (824; 2% instances), NUM (100; 0% instances), X (84; 0% instances), INTJ (26; 0% instances), SYM (6; 0% instances)