Voice: voice
In English, Voice is a feature of some verbs. It is only used to distinguish past participles from passive verbs which both have the PTB tag VBN.
Pass: passsive
All verbs with the PTB tag VBN that have a passive auxiliary have this feature.
Examples:
- Kennedy was killed.
- He got shot.
Treebank Statistics (UD_English)
This feature is universal.
It occurs with 1 different values: Pass.
1394 tokens (1%) have a non-empty value of Voice.
567 types (3%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Voice.
559 lemmas (3%) occur at least once with a non-empty value of Voice.
The feature is used with 1 part-of-speech tags: en-pos/VERB (1394; 1% instances).
VERB
1394 en-pos/VERB tokens (4% of all VERB tokens) have a non-empty value of Voice.
The most frequent other feature values with which VERB and Voice co-occurred: Number=EMPTY (1394; 100%), Tense=Past (1394; 100%), VerbForm=Part (1394; 100%), Mood=EMPTY (1394; 100%), Person=EMPTY (1394; 100%).
VERB tokens may have the following values of Voice:
Pass(1394; 100% of non-emptyVoice): attached, made, used, told, done, sent, called, born, appreciated, givenEMPTY(32684): is, was, have, are, be, get, know, had, ‘s, go
Voice seems to be lexical feature of VERB. 100% lemmas (559) occur only with one value of Voice.
Relations with Agreement in Voice
The 10 most frequent relations where parent and child node agree in Voice:
VERB –[remnant]–> VERB (1; 100%).
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