# Mischievous Nominal Constructions in Universal Dependencies

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2108.12928 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2108.12928/

## Key facts

- Cited by 7 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 3 of its 29 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 29 Aug 2021.

## Builds on (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [Universal Dependencies v2: An Evergrowing Multilingual Treebank Collection](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.10643/) (2020)
- [All Roads Lead to UD: Converting Stanford and Penn Parses to English Universal Dependencies with Multilayer Annotations](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1909.00522/) (2019)
- [A Cross-Genre Ensemble Approach to Robust Reddit Part of Speech Tagging](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2004.14312/) (2020)

## Built on by (most cited first, 7 of 7)

- [Are UD Treebanks Getting More Consistent? A Report Card for English UD](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2302.00636/) (2023)
- [Data-driven Parsing Evaluation for Child-Parent Interactions](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2209.13778/) (2022)
- [For the Purpose of Curry: A UD Treebank for Ashokan Prakrit](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2111.12783/) (2021)
- [Overview of MWE history, challenges, and horizons: standing at the 20th anniversary of the MWE workshop series via MWE-UD2024](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2412.18868/) (2024)
- [CGELBank: CGEL as a Framework for English Syntax Annotation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2210.00394/) (2022)
- [MaiBaam Annotation Guidelines](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2403.05902/) (2024)
- [Counting trees: A treebank-driven exploration of syntactic variation in speech and writing across languages](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2505.22774/) (2025)

## Abstract (arXiv)

While the highly multilingual Universal Dependencies (UD) project provides extensive guidelines for clausal structure as well as structure within canonical nominal phrases, a standard treatment is lacking for many "mischievous" nominal phenomena that break the mold. As a result, numerous inconsistencies within and across corpora can be found, even in languages with extensive UD treebanking work, such as English. This paper surveys the kinds of mischievous nominal expressions attested in English UD corpora and proposes solutions primarily with English in mind, but which may offer paths to solutions for a variety of UD languages.