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mwe: multi-word expression

The multi-word expression (modifier) relation is one of the relations for compounding and it is intended for function words. In Russian it is used for multi-word prepositions. The leftmost word is the head and all the other words are attached as its mwe modifiers.

Multi-word prepositions usually form a contiguous span of the sentence. In exceptional cases however, they can be interrupted by emphasizers and other words:


Treebank Statistics (UD_Russian)

This relation is universal.

330 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as mwe.

251 instances of mwe (76%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 1.42424242424242.

The following 43 pairs of parts of speech are connected with mwe: CONJ-CONJ (80; 24% instances), NOUN-NOUN (29; 9% instances), SCONJ-ADV (29; 9% instances), NOUN-ADP (27; 8% instances), DET-ADV (18; 5% instances), DET-PART (17; 5% instances), ADV-CONJ (12; 4% instances), DET-VERB (11; 3% instances), PART-ADV (11; 3% instances), SCONJ-ADP (11; 3% instances), PROPN-ADJ (7; 2% instances), CONJ-ADV (6; 2% instances), DET-ADP (6; 2% instances), ADP-DET (5; 2% instances), DET-NOUN (5; 2% instances), NOUN-VERB (5; 2% instances), ADP-CONJ (4; 1% instances), ADV-ADP (4; 1% instances), CONJ-X (4; 1% instances), NOUN-ADJ (4; 1% instances), NOUN-ADV (4; 1% instances), ADV-ADV (3; 1% instances), VERB-NOUN (3; 1% instances), ADJ-ADP (2; 1% instances), ADJ-NOUN (2; 1% instances), ADJ-VERB (2; 1% instances), PART-X (2; 1% instances), VERB-ADP (2; 1% instances), ADJ-ADJ (1; 0% instances), ADP-ADJ (1; 0% instances), ADP-ADV (1; 0% instances), ADP-PART (1; 0% instances), ADV-DET (1; 0% instances), CONJ-ADP (1; 0% instances), CONJ-PART (1; 0% instances), NOUN-DET (1; 0% instances), PRON-ADV (1; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (1; 0% instances), PRON-PART (1; 0% instances), PROPN-DET (1; 0% instances), PROPN-NOUN (1; 0% instances), PROPN-VERB (1; 0% instances), X-PART (1; 0% instances).


Treebank Statistics (UD_Russian-SynTagRus)

This relation is universal.

1090 nodes (0%) are attached to their parents as mwe.

1090 instances of mwe (100%) are left-to-right (parent precedes child). Average distance between parent and child is 1.31651376146789.

The following 49 pairs of parts of speech are connected with mwe: NOUN-NOUN (359; 33% instances), ADV-PART (225; 21% instances), ADV-ADV (105; 10% instances), ADV-PRON (50; 5% instances), PART-SCONJ (42; 4% instances), ADV-SCONJ (37; 3% instances), ADV-VERB (34; 3% instances), ADJ-ADJ (29; 3% instances), PART-PART (22; 2% instances), PRON-ADV (22; 2% instances), ADJ-PRON (20; 2% instances), NUM-ADJ (13; 1% instances), VERB-VERB (13; 1% instances), ADV-NOUN (10; 1% instances), NOUN-SCONJ (10; 1% instances), PART-NOUN (10; 1% instances), PART-VERB (9; 1% instances), VERB-NOUN (9; 1% instances), ADJ-ADV (7; 1% instances), PRON-VERB (7; 1% instances), SCONJ-PART (7; 1% instances), CONJ-CONJ (5; 0% instances), PART-PRON (5; 0% instances), NOUN-ADV (4; 0% instances), SCONJ-NOUN (4; 0% instances), NUM-NUM (3; 0% instances), VERB-ADV (3; 0% instances), ADJ-PART (2; 0% instances), NOUN-PRON (2; 0% instances), NUM-NOUN (2; 0% instances), PART-ADV (2; 0% instances), ADJ-NOUN (1; 0% instances), ADJ-VERB (1; 0% instances), ADV-ADJ (1; 0% instances), ADV-CONJ (1; 0% instances), CONJ-ADV (1; 0% instances), CONJ-NUM (1; 0% instances), CONJ-PART (1; 0% instances), INTJ-NOUN (1; 0% instances), NOUN-ADJ (1; 0% instances), NOUN-CONJ (1; 0% instances), NOUN-NUM (1; 0% instances), NOUN-VERB (1; 0% instances), NUM-CONJ (1; 0% instances), NUM-SYM (1; 0% instances), PRON-CONJ (1; 0% instances), PRON-NOUN (1; 0% instances), PRON-PRON (1; 0% instances), SCONJ-VERB (1; 0% instances).


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