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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 the meaning of the word.

Note that in some grammatical traditions, the term adverbial modifier covers constituents that function like adverbs regardless whether they are realized by adverbs, adpositional phrases, or nouns in particular morphological cases. We differentiate adverbials realized as adverbs (advmod) and adverbials realized by noun phrases or adpositional phrases (nmod).

Seca afeta pouco a produção de grãos.
advmod(afeta, pouco)
O fã daquela época vai ser fã sempre.
advmod(fã, sempre)
Talvez isto seja muito barulho por nada.
advmod(barulho, talvez)

Note that in the last example, the relation hold between the adverb (“talvez”) and the head of the main clause (“barulho”, since it is a copular clause).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Portuguese)

This relation is universal.

8113 nodes (4%) are attached to their parents as advmod.

6000 instances of advmod (74%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 2.85258227536053.

The following 43 pairs of parts of speech are connected with advmod: pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/ADV (4917; 61% instances), pt-pos/ADJ-pt-pos/ADV (1081; 13% instances), pt-pos/NOUN-pt-pos/ADV (1060; 13% instances), pt-pos/ADV-pt-pos/ADV (345; 4% instances), pt-pos/NUM-pt-pos/ADV (231; 3% instances), pt-pos/PRON-pt-pos/ADV (110; 1% instances), pt-pos/PROPN-pt-pos/ADV (91; 1% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/SCONJ (36; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/ADJ (29; 0% instances), pt-pos/SYM-pt-pos/ADV (25; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/ADP (24; 0% instances), pt-pos/DET-pt-pos/ADV (22; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/DET (22; 0% instances), pt-pos/ADJ-pt-pos/DET (20; 0% instances), pt-pos/ADV-pt-pos/DET (16; 0% instances), pt-pos/NOUN-pt-pos/DET (16; 0% instances), pt-pos/SCONJ-pt-pos/ADV (8; 0% instances), pt-pos/NUM-pt-pos/DET (6; 0% instances), pt-pos/ADP-pt-pos/ADV (5; 0% instances), pt-pos/AUX-pt-pos/ADV (5; 0% instances), pt-pos/NOUN-pt-pos/ADJ (5; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/PROPN (4; 0% instances), pt-pos/ADJ-pt-pos/ADJ (3; 0% instances), pt-pos/ADV-pt-pos/ADJ (3; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/INTJ (3; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/PRON (3; 0% instances), pt-pos/ADJ-pt-pos/PROPN (2; 0% instances), pt-pos/DET-pt-pos/DET (2; 0% instances), pt-pos/NOUN-pt-pos/SCONJ (2; 0% instances), pt-pos/NOUN-pt-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), pt-pos/NUM-pt-pos/SYM (2; 0% instances), pt-pos/PRON-pt-pos/DET (2; 0% instances), pt-pos/ADJ-pt-pos/ADP (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/ADJ-pt-pos/SCONJ (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/DET-pt-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/NOUN-pt-pos/ADP (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/NOUN-pt-pos/INTJ (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/NOUN-pt-pos/PROPN (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/NOUN-pt-pos/X (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/VERB (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/X-pt-pos/ADV (1; 0% instances).

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1	Ela	ela	PRON	PERS|F|3S|NOM|@SUBJ>	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	tem	ter	VERB	<mv>|V|PR|3S|IND|@FS-STA	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	também	também	ADV	ADV|@<ADVL	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	textos	texto	NOUN	<np-idf>|N|M|P|@<ACC	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	com	com	ADP	PRP|@N<	_	6	case	_	_
6	explicações	explicação	NOUN	<np-idf>|N|F|P|@P<	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
7	sobre	sobre	ADP	PRP|@N<	_	9	case	_	_
8	cada	cada	DET	<quant>|DET|M|S|@>N	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	item	item	NOUN	<np-def>|N|M|S|@P<	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	pesquisado	pesquisar	VERB	<mv>|V|PCP|M|S|@ICL-N<	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|VerbForm=Part	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	PU|@PU	_	2	punct	_	_

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1	«	«	PUNCT	PU|@PU	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Foi	ser	AUX	<mv>|V|PS|3S|IND|@FS-STA	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	um	um	DET	<arti>|ART|M|S|@>N	Definite=Ind|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ato	ato	NOUN	<np-idf>|N|M|S|@<SC	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	muito	muito	ADV	<quant>|ADV|@>A	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	rigoroso	rigoroso	ADJ	ADJ|M|S|@N<	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	PU|@PU	_	4	punct	_	_

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1	Vai	ir	AUX	<aux>|V|PR|3S|IND|@FS-ACC>	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	aux	_	_
2	ter	ter	VERB	<mv>|V|INF|@ICL-AUX<	VerbForm=Inf	11	ccomp	_	_
3	paridade	paridade	NOUN	<np-idf>|N|F|S|@<ACC	Gender=Fem|Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	PU|@PU	_	2	punct	_	_
5	já	já	ADV	ADV|@>A	_	8	advmod	_	_
6	desde	desde	ADP	PRP|@<ADVL	_	8	case	_	_
7	o	o	DET	<artd>|ART|M|S|@>N	Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	começo	começo	NOUN	<np-def>|N|M|S|@P<	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	»	»	PUNCT	PU|@PU	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	PU|@PU	_	2	punct	_	_
11	explicou	explicar	VERB	<mv>|V|PS|3S|IND|@FS-STA	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	PU|@PU	_	11	punct	_	_


Treebank Statistics (UD_Portuguese-BR)

This relation is universal.

8027 nodes (3%) are attached to their parents as advmod.

6192 instances of advmod (77%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 2.44288027905818.

The following 30 pairs of parts of speech are connected with advmod: pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/ADV (5220; 65% instances), pt-pos/NOUN-pt-pos/ADV (858; 11% instances), pt-pos/ADJ-pt-pos/ADV (823; 10% instances), pt-pos/NUM-pt-pos/ADV (545; 7% instances), pt-pos/ADV-pt-pos/ADV (272; 3% instances), pt-pos/PROPN-pt-pos/ADV (120; 1% instances), pt-pos/PRON-pt-pos/ADV (79; 1% instances), pt-pos/PROPN-pt-pos/PROPN (40; 0% instances), pt-pos/ADP-pt-pos/ADV (10; 0% instances), pt-pos/NUM-pt-pos/ADP (9; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/CCONJ (8; 0% instances), pt-pos/NUM-pt-pos/NOUN (6; 0% instances), pt-pos/PART-pt-pos/ADV (5; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/X (4; 0% instances), pt-pos/X-pt-pos/ADV (4; 0% instances), pt-pos/ADJ-pt-pos/PART (3; 0% instances), pt-pos/ADV-pt-pos/NOUN (2; 0% instances), pt-pos/AUX-pt-pos/ADV (2; 0% instances), pt-pos/CCONJ-pt-pos/ADV (2; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/ADJ (2; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/PART (2; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/PRON (2; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/VERB (2; 0% instances), pt-pos/ADJ-pt-pos/ADJ (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/ADV-pt-pos/DET (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/ADV-pt-pos/PART (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/PROPN-pt-pos/PART (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/PROPN-pt-pos/X (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/NOUN (1; 0% instances), pt-pos/VERB-pt-pos/NUM (1; 0% instances).

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1	Ver	_	VERB	VERB	_	0	root	_	_
2	também	_	ADV	ADV	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	a	_	DET	DET	_	4	det	_	_
4	lista	_	NOUN	NOUN	_	1	obj	_	_
5	de	_	ADP	ADP	_	6	case	_	_
6	entidades	_	NOUN	NOUN	_	4	nmod	_	_
7	que	_	PRON	PRON	_	9	nsubj	_	_
8	tenham	_	AUX	AUX	_	9	aux	_	_
9	emitido	_	VERB	VERB	_	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	selos	_	NOUN	NOUN	_	9	obj	_	_
11	postais	_	ADJ	ADJ	_	10	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	_	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_

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1	"	_	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Eles	_	PRON	PRON	_	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	não	_	ADV	ADV	Polarity=Neg	7	advmod	_	_
4	podem	_	AUX	AUX	_	7	aux	_	_
5	ser	_	AUX	AUX	_	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	considerados	_	VERB	VERB	_	7	cop	_	_
7	marginais	_	NOUN	NOUN	_	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	"	_	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	_	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
10	disse	_	VERB	VERB	_	0	root	_	_
11	ele	_	PRON	PRON	_	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	_	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_

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1	"	_	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Sempre	_	ADV	ADV	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	quis	_	VERB	VERB	_	0	root	_	_
4	dançar	_	VERB	VERB	_	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	_	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
6	mas	_	CCONJ	CONJ	_	8	cc	_	_
7	não	_	ADV	ADV	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	é	_	VERB	VERB	_	3	conj	_	_
9	tão	_	ADV	ADV	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	fácil	_	ADJ	ADJ	_	8	xcomp:adj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	_	PUNCT	.	_	3	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]