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expl: expletive: reflexive pronoun with an inherently reflexive verb

The demonstrative particle eto can be used as an “extra” subject in the sentence, in this case all other sentence can be considered as the group of predicate. Cf. English construction with there-expletive.

Это мама звонит . \n This-is my-mother calls .
expl(звонит, Это)
expl(calls, This-is)
nsubj(звонит, мама)
nsubj(calls, my-mother)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Russian-SynTagRus)

This relation is universal.

35 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as expl.

35 instances of expl (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 3.71428571428571.

The following 5 pairs of parts of speech are connected with expl: ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/PRON (30; 86% instances), ru-pos/ADJ-ru-pos/PRON (2; 6% instances), ru-pos/NOUN-ru-pos/PRON (1; 3% instances), ru-pos/VERB-ru-pos/NOUN (1; 3% instances), ru-pos/_-ru-pos/PRON (1; 3% instances).

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1	Это	это	PRON	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing	4	expl	4:expl	_
2	как	как	ADV	_	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	4:advmod	_
3	кто	кто	PRON	_	Case=Nom	4	nsubj	4:nsubj	_
4	решит	решать	VERB	_	Aspect=Perf|Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Fut|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	0:root	_
5	для	для	ADP	_	_	6	case	6:case	_
6	себя	себя	PRON	_	Case=Gen	4	obl	4:obl	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	6	punct	6:punct	_
8	посмотрев	смотреть	VERB	_	Aspect=Perf|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Conv|Voice=Act	4	advcl	4:advcl	_
9	фильм	фильм	NOUN	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	8	obj	8:obj	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	9	punct	9:punct	_

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1	А	а	NOUN	_	Animacy=Anim|Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	5	nsubj	5:nsubj	SpaceAfter=No
2	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	1	punct	1:punct	SpaceAfter=No
3	Улюкаев	улюкаев	PROPN	_	Animacy=Anim|Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	1	flat:name	1:flat:name	_
4	как-то	как-то	ADV	_	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	5:advmod	_
5	заметил	замечать	VERB	_	Aspect=Perf|Gender=Masc|Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	0:root	SpaceAfter=No
6	:	:	PUNCT	_	_	5	punct	5:punct	_
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	_	9	punct	5:punct	SpaceAfter=No
8	…	…	PUNCT	_	_	9	punct	9:punct	SpaceAfter=No
9	это	это	PRON	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing	13	expl	13:expl	_
10	не	не	PART	_	_	11	advmod	11:advmod	_
11	мы	мы	PRON	_	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1	13	nsubj	13:nsubj	_
12	такие	такой	DET	_	Case=Nom|Number=Plur	13	amod	13:amod	_
13	выдающиеся	выдающийся	ADJ	_	Case=Nom|Degree=Pos|Number=Plur	5	obl	5:obl	_
14	и	и	CCONJ	_	_	15	cc	15:cc	_
15	умные	умный	ADJ	_	Case=Nom|Degree=Pos|Number=Plur	13	conj	13:conj	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	15	punct	15:punct	_

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1	Это	это	PRON	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing	4	expl	2.2:expl	_
2	она	она	PRON	_	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3	4	nsubj	2.2:nsubj	_
2.1	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	2.2:advmod	_
2.2	_	_	_	_	_	_	_	0:exroot	_
3	без	без	ADP	_	_	4	case	4:case	_
4	повода	повод	NOUN	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	0:root	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	_	4	punct	4:punct	_
6	для	для	ADP	_	_	7	case	7:case	_
7	оскорбления	оскорбление	NOUN	_	Animacy=Inan|Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing	4	conj	4:conj	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	_	_	7	punct	7:punct	_


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