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# UD_Ruuli-RDT

Treebank card from UD release 2.18: metadata and texts come from `UD_Ruuli-RDT/README.md`; size is counted by streaming the `.conllu` files and checked against the release `stats.xml`. Generated by `tools/treebanks build`; do not edit by hand. Papers: [Papers: UD_Ruuli-RDT](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/treebanks/ruc/rdt/papers/); seeds: `seeds/`; converter: `convert.md`.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| UD name | UD_Ruuli-RDT |
| Language | Ruuli (`ruc`) |
| Family | Niger-Congo |
| Treebank code | `ruc_rdt` |
| UD page | [universaldependencies.org/treebanks/ruc rdt/index.html](https://universaldependencies.org/treebanks/ruc_rdt/index.html) |
| License | CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 |
| Genres | fiction, grammar-examples, nonfiction, spoken |
| Text in data | yes |
| Parallel | no |
| In UD since | UD v2.18 |
| Authors | Kira Tulchynska; Anna Veselovsky; Alena Witzlack-Makarevich |
| Contact | [kira.tulchynska@mail.huji.ac.il](mailto:kira.tulchynska@mail.huji.ac.il) |
| Development | in the UD repo (here) |

## Annotation layers

| Layer | Origin |
| --- | --- |
| Lemmas | converted from manual |
| UPOS | converted from manual |
| XPOS | converted from manual |
| Features | converted from manual |
| Relations | manual native |

UD scale: *manual native* — annotated by hand directly in UD; *converted from manual* — converted from manual annotation in another scheme; *converted with corrections* — converted and partly corrected by hand; *automatic with corrections* — automatic, with partial manual corrections; *automatic* — automatic; *not available* — the layer is absent.

## Size

| Split | Sentences | Tokens | Words | Multiword tokens | Empty nodes |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| test | 1 234 | 5 860 | 6 301 | 425 | 0 |
| **total** | 1 234 | 5 860 | 6 301 | 425 | 0 |

Tokens are surface tokens (Spanish `vámonos` is one), words are syntactic words (`vamos` + `nos`); multiword tokens are those split into several words; empty nodes are the `N.M` nodes of the enhanced graph. Splits train, dev are absent from the release.

## Summary

> UD_Ruuli-RDT is a Universal Dependencies (UD) treebank for the Ruruuli-Lunyala (Ruuli) language. The annotation was converted from interlinear glossed text and manually annotated for syntactic relations. The treebank includes texts from various sources: conversations, oral folktales, biographic monologue, movie subtitles, grammar examples, and factual prose. The treebank contains approximately 6,000 tokens.

## Introduction

> The UD_Ruuli-RDT treebank consists of texts recorded in Ruuli or translated into it by native speakers, and subsequently glossed and annotated. The included texts are:
> 
> - spokenBio_Nakasongola1 (795 words): Biographic monologue on childhood years, schooling, work, and other life experiences
> - spokenConv_Nakasongola1b (1223 words): Conversation between two speakers, a male and a female, about taking care of their elderly parents
> - spokenConv_Nakasongola2 (1544 words): Conversation between two females about socio-economic issues
> - spokenTale_Gweero (595 words): A traditional oral folktale about the cow who got in trouble with the lion and the hare who helped the cow
> - spokenTale_Sokoso (373 words): A traditional oral folktale about a woman who mistreated her mother-in-law
> - film_Inception (469 words): An excerpt from the translated subtitles for the film *Inception* (2010)
> - grammar_Syntax (936 words): Language examples from *A dictionary and grammatical sketch of Ruruuli-Lunyala* (Namyalo et al. 2021)
> - nonfiction_Aniinire (366 words): An excerpt from factual prose on the history and traditions of the language speakers
> 
> All sentences were converted from interlinear glossed text into CoNLL-U format using a custom conversion script. The syntactic relations were subsequently manually annotated following the UD framework.
> 
> Sentences from written texts and conversations were shuffled to anonymize the data.

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