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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.

Despite its use in copular constructions, 是 / shì “be” is tagged as a verb due to its other non-copular meanings and functions.

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_Chinese)

There are 4396 VERB lemmas (21%), 4396 VERB types (21%) and 16882 VERB tokens (15%). Out of 15 observed tags, the rank of VERB is: 3 in number of lemmas, 3 in number of types and 2 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent VERB lemmas: 有、 在、 為、 於、 被、 是、 由、 成、 到、 位

The 10 most frequent VERB types: 有、 在、 為、 於、 被、 是、 由、 成、 到、 位

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: 有 (VERB 547, AUX 1), 在 (ADP 971, VERB 497, ADV 27), 為 (AUX 488, VERB 458, ADP 115, PROPN 1, X 1), 於 (VERB 448, ADP 353), 是 (AUX 792, VERB 295, X 1), 由 (VERB 192, ADP 51, NOUN 2), 成 (VERB 164, PROPN 1), 到 (VERB 159, ADP 21, CCONJ 20), 位 (VERB 150, NOUN 69, PART 2), 開始 (VERB 131, ADP 4, AUX 1, NOUN 1)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: 有 (VERB 547, AUX 1), 在 (ADP 971, VERB 497, ADV 27), 為 (AUX 488, VERB 458, ADP 115, PROPN 1, X 1), 於 (VERB 448, ADP 353), 是 (AUX 792, VERB 295, X 1), 由 (VERB 192, ADP 51, NOUN 2), 成 (VERB 164, PROPN 1), 到 (VERB 159, ADP 21, CCONJ 20), 位 (VERB 150, NOUN 69, PART 2), 開始 (VERB 131, ADP 4, NOUN 1, AUX 1)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of VERB is 1.000000 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.000284).

The 1st highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “一分為二”: 一分為二.

The 2nd highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “一到”: 一到.

The 3rd highest number of forms (1) was observed with the lemma “一反其道”: 一反其道.

VERB occurs with 1 features: zh-feat/Voice (1005; 6% instances)

VERB occurs with 2 feature-value pairs: Voice=Cau, Voice=Pass

VERB occurs with 3 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is _ (15877 tokens). Examples: 有、 在、 於、 為、 是、 由、 成、 到、 位、 開始

Relations

VERB nodes are attached to their parents using 25 different relations: zh-dep/root (3673; 22% instances), zh-dep/acl (3074; 18% instances), zh-dep/dep (1627; 10% instances), zh-dep/ccomp (1581; 9% instances), zh-dep/xcomp (1464; 9% instances), zh-dep/acl:relcl (1438; 9% instances), zh-dep/mark (1260; 7% instances), zh-dep/case:suff (1118; 7% instances), zh-dep/aux:pass (383; 2% instances), zh-dep/conj (281; 2% instances), zh-dep/csubj (274; 2% instances), zh-dep/amod (267; 2% instances), zh-dep/aux:caus (176; 1% instances), zh-dep/advcl (81; 0% instances), zh-dep/obj (40; 0% instances), zh-dep/dislocated (34; 0% instances), zh-dep/nmod (30; 0% instances), zh-dep/appos (20; 0% instances), zh-dep/nsubj (19; 0% instances), zh-dep/advmod (18; 0% instances), zh-dep/obl (8; 0% instances), zh-dep/det (6; 0% instances), zh-dep/csubj:pass (5; 0% instances), zh-dep/nmod:tmod (4; 0% instances), zh-dep/discourse (1; 0% instances)

Parents of VERB nodes belong to 13 different parts of speech: VERB (9483; 56% instances), ROOT (3673; 22% instances), NOUN (1833; 11% instances), PART (1409; 8% instances), ADJ (234; 1% instances), PROPN (92; 1% instances), ADP (69; 0% instances), NUM (41; 0% instances), X (19; 0% instances), ADV (17; 0% instances), PRON (8; 0% instances), AUX (3; 0% instances), PUNCT (1; 0% instances)

3470 (21%) VERB nodes are leaves.

3040 (18%) VERB nodes have one child.

3019 (18%) VERB nodes have two children.

7353 (44%) VERB nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a VERB node is 18.

Children of VERB nodes are attached using 38 different relations: zh-dep/punct (9806; 21% instances), zh-dep/obj (7119; 15% instances), zh-dep/nsubj (6608; 14% instances), zh-dep/mark (3891; 8% instances), zh-dep/acl (3214; 7% instances), zh-dep/advmod (2712; 6% instances), zh-dep/obl (2341; 5% instances), zh-dep/ccomp (1886; 4% instances), zh-dep/dep (1696; 4% instances), zh-dep/xcomp (1543; 3% instances), zh-dep/mark:relcl (1488; 3% instances), zh-dep/nmod:tmod (1344; 3% instances), zh-dep/case:aspect (830; 2% instances), zh-dep/aux (748; 2% instances), zh-dep/case (588; 1% instances), zh-dep/aux:pass (381; 1% instances), zh-dep/conj (285; 1% instances), zh-dep/nsubj:pass (244; 1% instances), zh-dep/csubj (235; 0% instances), zh-dep/aux:caus (173; 0% instances), zh-dep/cc (160; 0% instances), zh-dep/discourse (137; 0% instances), zh-dep/mark:advb (82; 0% instances), zh-dep/iobj (71; 0% instances), zh-dep/appos (25; 0% instances), zh-dep/acl:relcl (10; 0% instances), zh-dep/det (10; 0% instances), zh-dep/cop (9; 0% instances), zh-dep/amod (6; 0% instances), zh-dep/case:dec (6; 0% instances), zh-dep/nummod (6; 0% instances), zh-dep/csubj:pass (5; 0% instances), zh-dep/mark:comp (5; 0% instances), zh-dep/dislocated (4; 0% instances), zh-dep/case:suff (3; 0% instances), zh-dep/advcl (1; 0% instances), zh-dep/case:pref (1; 0% instances), zh-dep/vocative (1; 0% instances)

Children of VERB nodes belong to 15 different parts of speech: NOUN (13001; 27% instances), PUNCT (9805; 21% instances), VERB (9483; 20% instances), PART (4636; 10% instances), ADV (4337; 9% instances), PROPN (2446; 5% instances), ADP (1067; 2% instances), PRON (943; 2% instances), AUX (763; 2% instances), ADJ (525; 1% instances), X (301; 1% instances), CCONJ (159; 0% instances), NUM (143; 0% instances), DET (58; 0% instances), SYM (7; 0% instances)


VERB 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] [ug] [uk] [u] [urj] [ur] [vi] [yue] [zh]