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expl: expletive

This relation captures pleonastic nominals. An expletive or pleonastic nominal is one where the nominal does not satisfy a semantic role of the predicate, such as the existential there in English. The main predicate of the clause (the verb or predicate adjective or noun) is the governor.

(TODO example)

Diffs

Turku Dependency Treebank

expl is not annotated in TDT and is not used in the current version of the UD Finnish corpus.


Treebank Statistics (UD_Finnish-FTB)

This relation is universal.

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

506 instances of expl (97%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 5.09541984732824.

The following 8 pairs of parts of speech are connected with expl: fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/PRON (379; 72% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/ADV (65; 12% instances), fi-pos/NOUN-fi-pos/PRON (30; 6% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/PRON (26; 5% instances), fi-pos/PRON-fi-pos/PRON (11; 2% instances), fi-pos/ADJ-fi-pos/ADV (9; 2% instances), fi-pos/VERB-fi-pos/ADJ (3; 1% instances), fi-pos/NUM-fi-pos/PRON (1; 0% instances).

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1	On	olla	VERB	V,Act,Ind,Pres,Sg3	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	_	_
2	se	se	PRON	Pron,Dem,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	1	expl	_	Alt=1_expl|Missed-Rel=phrm
3	Annillakkii	anni	PROPN	N,Prop,Sg,Ade	Case=Ade|Number=Sing|Style=Coll	1	nmod:own	_	Alt=nmod:own
4	oikeus	oikeus	NOUN	N,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	_
5	suaha	saada	VERB	V,Act,InfA,Lat	Case=Lat|InfForm=1|Style=Coll|VerbForm=Inf|Voice=Act	4	acl	_	_
6	mies	mies	NOUN	N,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	5	dobj	_	_
7	jolla	joka	PRON	Pron,Rel,Sg,Ade	Case=Ade|Number=Sing|PronType=Rel	10	nmod	_	_
8	joka	joka	DET	Pron,Qnt	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	paikka	paikka	NOUN	N,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	pelloo	pelata	VERB	V,Act,Ind,Pres,Sg3	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Style=Coll|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	6	acl	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	Pun	_	10	punct	_	_

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1	Nauratti	naurattaa	VERB	V,Act,Ind,Past,Sg3	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	0	root	_	_
2	niin	niin	ADV	Adv,Dem	PronType=Dem	5	expl	_	Alt=5_expl|Missed-Rel=phrm
3	että	että	SCONJ	Pcle,CS	_	5	mark	_	_
4	suupielistä	suupieli	NOUN	N,Pl,Ela	Case=Ela|Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
5	veti	vetää	VERB	V,Act,Ind,Past,Sg3	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	1	advcl	_	_
6	.	.	PUNCT	Pun	_	5	punct	_	_

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1	Logistiikan	logistiikka	NOUN	N,Sg,Gen	Case=Gen|Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
2	hallintaa	hallinta	NOUN	N,Sg,Par	Case=Par|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	Pun	_	2	punct	_	_
4	sitä	se	PRON	Pron,Dem,Sg,Par	Case=Par|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	Alt=6_expl|Missed-Rel=phrm
5	se	se	PRON	Pron,Dem,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	Alt=6_expl|Missed-Rel=phrm
6	on	olla	VERB	V,Act,Ind,Pres,Sg3	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin|Voice=Act	2	cop	_	_
7	tämä	tämä	DET	Pron,Dem,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	10	det	_	_
8	tämmöinen	tämmöinen	DET	A,Dem,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	amod	_	Alt=DET
9	uusi	uusi	ADJ	A,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	10	amod	_	_
10	ajattelu	ajattelu	NOUN	N,Sg,Nom	Case=Nom|Number=Sing	2	nsubj:cop	_	_
11	.	.	PUNCT	Pun	_	10	punct	_	_


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