home fr/dep edit page issue tracker

This page pertains to UD version 2.

advmod: adverbial modifier

An adverbial modifier of a word is a (non-clausal) adverb or adverbial phrase that serves to modify the meaning of the word.

Ca devrait être fortement souligné \n It should be strongly emphasised
advmod(souligné, fortement)
moins souvent \n less often
advmod(souvent, moins)
le jour le plus long \n the longest day
advmod(long, plus)

FrenchSpoken uses the advmod relation, here are a few examples:

je connaissais très bien Marc Allégret \n I knew Marc Allégret very well
advmod(connaissais, bien)
advmod(bien, très)
c'est vraiment très agréable \n it's really very pleasant
advmod(agréable, très)
advmod(agréable, vraiment)

For adverbial modifiers which are not governed by their heads, FrenchSpoken uses the advmod:periph relation.


Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

This relation is universal.

12569 nodes (3%) are attached to their parents as advmod.

8942 instances of advmod (71%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 2.00334155461851.

The following 64 pairs of parts of speech are connected with advmod: fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/ADV (7012; 56% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/ADV (2056; 16% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/ADV (1321; 11% instances), fr-pos/ADV-fr-pos/ADV (629; 5% instances), fr-pos/NUM-fr-pos/ADV (333; 3% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/ADP (278; 2% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/ADV (141; 1% instances), fr-pos/CCONJ-fr-pos/ADV (126; 1% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/ADV (108; 1% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/ADP (90; 1% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/PRON (89; 1% instances), fr-pos/ADP-fr-pos/ADV (60; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/ADP (50; 0% instances), fr-pos/SCONJ-fr-pos/ADV (48; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/DET (24; 0% instances), fr-pos/NUM-fr-pos/ADP (24; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/ADP (18; 0% instances), fr-pos/SYM-fr-pos/ADV (11; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/PRON (10; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/NOUN (10; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADV-fr-pos/DET (8; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADP-fr-pos/ADP (7; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/PRON (7; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/SCONJ (7; 0% instances), fr-pos/DET-fr-pos/ADV (6; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADV-fr-pos/ADP (5; 0% instances), fr-pos/INTJ-fr-pos/ADV (5; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/ADJ (5; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/DET (5; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/NOUN (5; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/PROPN (5; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/ADJ (5; 0% instances), fr-pos/X-fr-pos/ADV (5; 0% instances), fr-pos/DET-fr-pos/ADP (4; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/DET (4; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/SCONJ (3; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/VERB (3; 0% instances), fr-pos/NUM-fr-pos/ADJ (3; 0% instances), fr-pos/NUM-fr-pos/NOUN (3; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/CCONJ (3; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/PART (3; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/X (3; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/INTJ (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADV-fr-pos/NOUN (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/NUM-fr-pos/DET (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/ADP (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/CCONJ (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/PART (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADP-fr-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADP-fr-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADV-fr-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADV-fr-pos/SCONJ (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/CCONJ-fr-pos/ADP (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/CCONJ-fr-pos/CCONJ (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/INTJ (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/X (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/NUM-fr-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/DET (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/X (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/PUNCT-fr-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances).

# visual-style 2	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 2	fgColor:white
# visual-style 3	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 3	fgColor:white
# visual-style 3 2 advmod	color:blue
1	Mais	mais	CCONJ	_	_	3	cc	_	_
2	comment	comment	ADV	_	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	faire	faire	VERB	_	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	dans	dans	ADP	_	_	6	case	_	_
5	un	un	DET	_	Definite=Ind|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	contexte	contexte	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	structurellement	structurellement	ADV	_	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	raciste	raciste	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	6	amod	_	_
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	_	3	punct	_	_

# visual-style 7	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 7	fgColor:white
# visual-style 8	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 8	fgColor:white
# visual-style 8 7 advmod	color:blue
1	Mais	mais	CCONJ	_	_	3	cc	_	_
2	comment	comment	ADV	_	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	faire	faire	VERB	_	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	dans	dans	ADP	_	_	6	case	_	_
5	un	un	DET	_	Definite=Ind|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	contexte	contexte	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	structurellement	structurellement	ADV	_	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	raciste	raciste	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	6	amod	_	_
9	?	?	PUNCT	_	_	3	punct	_	_

# visual-style 3	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 3	fgColor:white
# visual-style 9	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 9	fgColor:white
# visual-style 9 3 advmod	color:blue
1	C'	ce	PRON	_	Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Dem	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	est	être	AUX	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
3	véritablement	véritablement	ADV	_	_	9	advmod	_	_
4	pour	pour	ADP	_	_	7	case	_	_
5	le	le	DET	_	Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	futur	futur	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	7	amod	_	_
7	baptisé	baptiser	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	obl	_	_
8	un	un	DET	_	Definite=Ind|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	changement	changement	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
10	de	de	ADP	_	_	11	case	_	_
11	cap	cap	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	9	punct	_	_


Treebank Statistics (UD_French-ParTUT)

This relation is universal.

703 nodes (4%) are attached to their parents as advmod.

516 instances of advmod (73%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 2.07823613086771.

The following 22 pairs of parts of speech are connected with advmod: fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/ADV (322; 46% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/ADV (100; 14% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/PART (100; 14% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/ADV (91; 13% instances), fr-pos/ADV-fr-pos/ADV (35; 5% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/PART (11; 2% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/ADP (10; 1% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/ADV (6; 1% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/PART (4; 1% instances), fr-pos/AUX-fr-pos/ADV (4; 1% instances), fr-pos/AUX-fr-pos/PART (3; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/ADP (3; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/ADP (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADV-fr-pos/ADP (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/NUM-fr-pos/ADV (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/ADV (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADP-fr-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADV-fr-pos/PART (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/DET-fr-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/SCONJ (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/SYM-fr-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances).

# visual-style 5	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 5	fgColor:white
# visual-style 6	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 6	fgColor:white
# visual-style 6 5 advmod	color:blue
1	L'	le	DET	RD	Definite=Def|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	2	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	acceptant	acceptant	NOUN	S	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	ne	ne	PART	PART	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	peut	pouvoir	AUX	VM	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	pas	pas	ADV	BN	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	céder	céder	VERB	V	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	de	de	DET	RI	Definite=Ind|Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	droits	droit	NOUN	S	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	sur	sur	ADP	E	_	11	case	_	_
10	l'	le	DET	RD	Definite=Def|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	11	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	oeuvre	oeuvre	NOUN	S	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	FS	_	6	punct	_	_

# visual-style 3	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 3	fgColor:white
# visual-style 6	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 6	fgColor:white
# visual-style 6 3 advmod	color:blue
1	L'	le	DET	RD	Definite=Def|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	2	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	acceptant	acceptant	NOUN	S	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	ne	ne	PART	PART	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
4	peut	pouvoir	AUX	VM	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	pas	pas	ADV	BN	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
6	céder	céder	VERB	V	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
7	de	de	DET	RI	Definite=Ind|Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	droits	droit	NOUN	S	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	sur	sur	ADP	E	_	11	case	_	_
10	l'	le	DET	RD	Definite=Def|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	11	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	oeuvre	oeuvre	NOUN	S	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	FS	_	6	punct	_	_

# visual-style 4	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 4	fgColor:white
# visual-style 5	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 5	fgColor:white
# visual-style 5 4 advmod	color:blue
1	Ça	ce	PRON	PD	PronType=Dem	5	nsubj	_	_
2	peut	pouvoir	AUX	VM	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	être	être	AUX	VA	VerbForm=Inf	5	cop	_	_
4	très	très	ADV	B	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	compliqué	compliqué	ADJ	A	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	FF	_	5	punct	_	_
7	l'	le	DET	RD	Definite=Def|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	8	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	océan	océan	NOUN	S	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	dislocated	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	FS	_	5	punct	_	_


Treebank Statistics (UD_French-Sequoia)

This relation is universal.

2088 nodes (3%) are attached to their parents as advmod.

1456 instances of advmod (70%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 2.33045977011494.

The following 30 pairs of parts of speech are connected with advmod: fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/ADV (1150; 55% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/ADV (282; 14% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/ADV (222; 11% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/ADP (129; 6% instances), fr-pos/ADV-fr-pos/ADV (82; 4% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/ADP (82; 4% instances), fr-pos/CCONJ-fr-pos/ADV (41; 2% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/ADV (23; 1% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/ADP (17; 1% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/ADV (13; 1% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/PRON (8; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/ADJ (6; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADP-fr-pos/ADV (5; 0% instances), fr-pos/CCONJ-fr-pos/ADP (5; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/DET (3; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/DET-fr-pos/ADV (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/X (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/NUM-fr-pos/ADP (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/PROPN-fr-pos/ADP (2; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/INTJ (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADJ-fr-pos/X (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/ADV-fr-pos/INTJ (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/DET (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/NOUN-fr-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/NUM-fr-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/PRON-fr-pos/ADP (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/DET (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/INTJ (1; 0% instances), fr-pos/VERB-fr-pos/X (1; 0% instances).

# visual-style 1	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 1	fgColor:white
# visual-style 5	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 5	fgColor:white
# visual-style 5 1 advmod	color:blue
1	Comment	comment	ADV	_	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	Angiox	Angiox	PROPN	_	_	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	est	être	AUX	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	-il	il	PRON	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3	5	expl	_	_
5	utilisé	utiliser	VERB	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	?	?	PUNCT	_	_	5	punct	_	_

# visual-style 9	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 9	fgColor:white
# visual-style 8	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 8	fgColor:white
# visual-style 8 9 advmod	color:blue
1	L'	le	DET	_	Definite=Def|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	2	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	EPAR	épar	NOUN	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	complet	complet	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	amod	_	_
4	relatif	relatif	ADJ	_	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	amod	_	_
5	à	à	ADP	_	_	6	case	_	_
6	Angiox	Angiox	PROPN	_	_	4	obl	_	_
7	est	être	AUX	_	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	disponible	disponible	ADJ	_	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
9	ici	ici	ADV	_	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	8	punct	_	_

# visual-style 1	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 1	fgColor:white
# visual-style 4	bgColor:blue
# visual-style 4	fgColor:white
# visual-style 4 1 advmod	color:blue
1	Quatrièmement	quatrièmement	ADV	_	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	4	punct	_	_
3	les	le	DET	_	Definite=Def|Number=Plur|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ONG	ONG	NOUN	_	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	4	punct	_	_


advmod in other languages: [am] [ar] [bg] [bxr] [ca] [ckb] [cop] [cs] [cu] [da] [de] [el] [en] [es] [et] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fo] [fr] [ga] [gl] [got] [grc] [he] [hi] [hr] [hu] [id] [it] [ja] [kk] [kmr] [ko] [la] [lv] [mr] [nl] [no] [pl] [pt] [ro] [ru] [sa] [sk] [sla] [sl] [so] [sr] [sv] [swl] [ta] [tr] [u] [ug] [uk] [ur] [urj] [vi] [yue] [zh]