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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.

The tag VERB is reserved for full lexical verbs, while auxiliary verbs are tagged AUX.

Examples


Treebank Statistics (UD_French)

There are 2253 VERB lemmas (6%), 8003 VERB types (17%) and 36162 VERB tokens (9%). Out of 17 observed tags, the rank of VERB is: 4 in number of lemmas, 3 in number of types and 5 in number of tokens.

The 10 most frequent VERB lemmas: être, faire, avoir, situer, naître, prendre, devenir, trouver, permettre, mettre

The 10 most frequent VERB types: est, sont, fait, a, était, né, faire, située, être, situé

The 10 most frequent ambiguous lemmas: être (VERB 5434, AUX 4232, NOUN 9), faire (VERB 1004, AUX 5), avoir (AUX 3366, VERB 886, NOUN 1), devenir (VERB 284, NOUN 1), trouver (VERB 277, AUX 1), voir (VERB 234, AUX 10, ADV 1), dire (VERB 216, NOUN 1), rester (VERB 177, AUX 8), venir (VERB 148, AUX 16), aller (VERB 132, AUX 127, NOUN 3)

The 10 most frequent ambiguous types: est (VERB 3514, AUX 1767, NOUN 44, ADJ 3, SCONJ 1, X 1), sont (VERB 613, AUX 578, DET 1), fait (VERB 441, NOUN 127, AUX 2), a (AUX 1836, VERB 370, ADP 22, X 6, DET 2, PROPN 1, NOUN 1), était (VERB 353, AUX 166), (VERB 267, NOUN 1), être (AUX 255, VERB 163, NOUN 6), situé (VERB 141, ADJ 2), été (AUX 719, VERB 148, NOUN 52), fut (AUX 274, VERB 140)

Morphology

The form / lemma ratio of VERB is 3.552153 (the average of all parts of speech is 1.308112).

The 1st highest number of forms (30) was observed with the lemma “avoir”: a, ai, aient, ait, as, aura, aurai, auraient, aurais, aurait, aurez, auriez, auront, avaient, avais, avait, avez, avions, avoir, avons, ayant, ayons, eu, eurent, eus, eut, eût, non, ont, à.

The 2nd highest number of forms (30) was observed with the lemma “être”: -être, Etant, es, esr, est, furent, fut, fût, sera, seraient, serais, serait, serez, seriez, serions, seront, soient, soit, sommes, sont, soyez, suis, étaient, étais, était, étant, étions, été, êtes, être.

The 3rd highest number of forms (23) was observed with the lemma “faire”: Faisons, faire, fais, faisaient, faisait, faisant, fait, faite, faites, faits, fasse, fassent, fera, ferai, feraient, ferais, ferait, ferez, ferons, feront, firent, fit, font.

VERB occurs with 6 features: fr-feat/VerbForm (36081; 100% instances), fr-feat/Tense (30339; 84% instances), fr-feat/Number (28733; 79% instances), fr-feat/Mood (17457; 48% instances), fr-feat/Person (17457; 48% instances), fr-feat/Gender (11276; 31% instances)

VERB occurs with 18 feature-value pairs: Gender=Fem, Gender=Masc, Mood=Cnd, Mood=Imp, Mood=Ind, Mood=Sub, Number=Plur, Number=Sing, Person=1, Person=2, Person=3, Tense=Fut, Tense=Imp, Tense=Past, Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Fin, VerbForm=Inf, VerbForm=Part

VERB occurs with 42 feature combinations. The most frequent feature combination is Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin (10862 tokens). Examples: est, a, fait, devient, trouve, permet, agit, reste, prend, compte

Relations

VERB nodes are attached to their parents using 26 different relations: fr-dep/root (11687; 32% instances), fr-dep/acl (6870; 19% instances), fr-dep/cop (5753; 16% instances), fr-dep/conj (3532; 10% instances), fr-dep/acl:relcl (3094; 9% instances), fr-dep/advcl (2692; 7% instances), fr-dep/ccomp (1079; 3% instances), fr-dep/xcomp (587; 2% instances), fr-dep/parataxis (479; 1% instances), fr-dep/mwe (126; 0% instances), fr-dep/amod (77; 0% instances), fr-dep/csubj (58; 0% instances), fr-dep/appos (45; 0% instances), fr-dep/dep (24; 0% instances), fr-dep/nmod (22; 0% instances), fr-dep/compound (11; 0% instances), fr-dep/aux (7; 0% instances), fr-dep/advmod (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/dobj (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/nsubj (3; 0% instances), fr-dep/case (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/name (2; 0% instances), fr-dep/cc (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/goeswith (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/mark (1; 0% instances), fr-dep/nsubjpass (1; 0% instances)

Parents of VERB nodes belong to 16 different parts of speech: ROOT (11687; 32% instances), NOUN (10572; 29% instances), VERB (8919; 25% instances), ADJ (2444; 7% instances), PROPN (1280; 4% instances), PRON (856; 2% instances), ADV (120; 0% instances), ADP (111; 0% instances), NUM (93; 0% instances), X (27; 0% instances), SYM (20; 0% instances), AUX (13; 0% instances), INTJ (8; 0% instances), PART (6; 0% instances), DET (3; 0% instances), SCONJ (3; 0% instances)

6689 (18%) VERB nodes are leaves.

3737 (10%) VERB nodes have one child.

5010 (14%) VERB nodes have two children.

20726 (57%) VERB nodes have three or more children.

The highest child degree of a VERB node is 22.

Children of VERB nodes are attached using 35 different relations: fr-dep/nmod (23832; 21% instances), fr-dep/punct (21365; 18% instances), fr-dep/nsubj (15932; 14% instances), fr-dep/dobj (14846; 13% instances), fr-dep/mark (5867; 5% instances), fr-dep/aux (5825; 5% instances), fr-dep/advmod (5284; 5% instances), fr-dep/conj (3446; 3% instances), fr-dep/cc (3113; 3% instances), fr-dep/auxpass (2681; 2% instances), fr-dep/nsubjpass (2585; 2% instances), fr-dep/advcl (2469; 2% instances), fr-dep/neg (2233; 2% instances), fr-dep/acl (1773; 2% instances), fr-dep/ccomp (1107; 1% instances), fr-dep/iobj (814; 1% instances), fr-dep/xcomp (808; 1% instances), fr-dep/parataxis (383; 0% instances), fr-dep/expl (316; 0% instances), fr-dep/case (235; 0% instances), fr-dep/amod (124; 0% instances), fr-dep/dep (108; 0% instances), fr-dep/appos (105; 0% instances), fr-dep/cop (52; 0% instances), fr-dep/det (40; 0% instances), fr-dep/mwe (40; 0% instances), fr-dep/acl:relcl (33; 0% instances), fr-dep/csubj (30; 0% instances), fr-dep/discourse (26; 0% instances), fr-dep/nummod (16; 0% instances), fr-dep/compound (12; 0% instances), fr-dep/goeswith (4; 0% instances), fr-dep/name (3; 0% instances), fr-dep/nmod:poss (3; 0% instances), fr-dep/vocative (2; 0% instances)

Children of VERB nodes belong to 17 different parts of speech: NOUN (35435; 31% instances), PUNCT (21365; 18% instances), PRON (14632; 13% instances), VERB (8919; 8% instances), AUX (8508; 7% instances), PROPN (6917; 6% instances), ADV (6398; 6% instances), ADP (4346; 4% instances), CONJ (3000; 3% instances), NUM (1997; 2% instances), SCONJ (1586; 1% instances), PART (1352; 1% instances), ADJ (724; 1% instances), SYM (168; 0% instances), X (70; 0% instances), DET (69; 0% instances), INTJ (26; 0% instances)


VERB in other languages: [bg] [cs] [de] [el] [en] [es] [eu] [fa] [fi] [fr] [ga] [he] [hu] [it] [ja] [ko] [sv] [u]