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expl: expletive

This relation captures expletive or pleonastic nominals. These are nominals that appear in an argument position of a predicate but which do not themselves satisfy any of the semantic roles of the predicate. The main predicate of the clause (the verb or predicate adjective) is the governor. In Italian, this relation is used only with clitic pronouns in the following cases:

NB Whenever possible, clitic pronouns are assigned a label that reflect their grammatical function. For this reason, if the pronoun appears in a reflexive construction of a transitive or intransitive active verb, than it’s treated as dobj or iobj. In Italian clitics also appears in passive and impersonal constructions. For that, see the subclasses expl:pass and expl:impers.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)

This relation is universal. There are 2 language-specific subtypes of expl: expl:impers, expl:pass.

2074 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as expl.

1666 instances of expl (80%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.22661523625844.

The following 7 pairs of parts of speech are connected with expl: VERB-PRON (2060; 99% instances), ADV-PRON (6; 0% instances), AUX-PRON (3; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (2; 0% instances), ADJ-PRON (1; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (1; 0% instances), VERB-SCONJ (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian-ParTUT)

This relation is universal. There are 2 language-specific subtypes of expl: expl:impers, expl:pass.

219 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as expl.

156 instances of expl (71%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.19634703196347.

The following 2 pairs of parts of speech are connected with expl: VERB-PRON (218; 100% instances), NOUN-PRON (1; 0% instances).


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