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auxpass: passive auxiliary

A passive auxiliary (essere / venire) of a clause is a non-main verb of the clause which contains the passive information.

L' escursione era guidata da Castiglioni
auxpass(guidata, era)

Note that periphrastic tenses in passive constructions are marked as follows, by distinguishing between the passive auxiliary (i.e. that immediately preceding the verbal head) which is marked as auxpass and the tense auxiliaries (the preceding ones) which are marked as aux.

è stato trovato
auxpass(trovato, stato)
aux(trovato, è)
potrebbe essere stato trovato
auxpass(trovato, stato)
aux(trovato, essere)
aux(trovato, potrebbe)

Treebank Statistics (UD_Italian)

This relation is universal.

2180 nodes (1%) are attached to their parents as auxpass.

2177 instances of auxpass (100%) are right-to-left (child precedes parent). Average distance between parent and child is 1.16467889908257.

The following 5 pairs of parts of speech are connected with auxpass: it-pos/VERB-it-pos/AUX (2167; 99% instances), it-pos/ADJ-it-pos/AUX (7; 0% instances), it-pos/NOUN-it-pos/AUX (4; 0% instances), it-pos/PRON-it-pos/AUX (1; 0% instances), it-pos/X-it-pos/AUX (1; 0% instances).

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1	È	essere	VERB	V	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	cop	_	_
2	vero	vero	ADJ	A	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	,	,	PUNCT	FF	_	2	punct	_	_
4	tutti	tutto	PRON	PI	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|PronType=Ind	7	nsubjpass	_	_
5	possiamo	potere	AUX	VM	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	essere	essere	AUX	VA	VerbForm=Inf	7	auxpass	_	_
7	sostituiti	sostituire	VERB	V	Gender=Masc|Number=Plur|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	2	parataxis	_	_
8	.	.	PUNCT	FS	_	2	punct	_	_

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1	900	900	NUM	N	NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	se	se	SCONJ	CS	_	8	mark	_	_
3	le	il	DET	RD	Definite=Def|Gender=Fem|Number=Plur|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	ricerche	ricerca	NOUN	S	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	8	nsubjpass	_	_
5	sono	essere	AUX	VA	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	auxpass	_	_
6	state	essere	VERB	V	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	cop	_	_
7	molto	molto	ADV	B	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	lunghe	lungo	ADJ	A	Gender=Fem|Number=Plur	1	advcl	_	_
9	.	.	PUNCT	FS	_	1	punct	_	_

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1	Quando	quando	ADV	B	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	venne	venire	AUX	VA	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	auxpass	_	_
3	fabbricato	fabbricato	NOUN	S	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	il	il	DET	RD	Definite=Def|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	primo	primo	ADJ	NO	Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|NumType=Ord	6	amod	_	_
6	asciugacapelli	asciugacapelli	NOUN	S	Gender=Masc	3	nsubjpass	_	_
7	?	?	PUNCT	FS	_	3	punct	_	_


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