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# UD_Tamil-MWTT

Treebank card from UD release 2.18: metadata and texts come from `UD_Tamil-MWTT/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_Tamil-MWTT](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/treebanks/ta/mwtt/papers/); seeds: `seeds/`; converter: `convert.md`.

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| UD name | UD_Tamil-MWTT |
| Language | Tamil (`ta`) |
| Family | Dravidian |
| Treebank code | `ta_mwtt` |
| UD page | [universaldependencies.org/treebanks/ta mwtt/index.html](https://universaldependencies.org/treebanks/ta_mwtt/index.html) |
| License | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
| Genres | news |
| Text in data | yes |
| Parallel | no |
| In UD since | UD v2.7 |
| Authors | Sarveswaran Kengatharaiyer; Parameswari Krishnamurthy; Keerthana Balasubramani |
| Contact | [sarves@cse.mrt.ac.lk](mailto:sarves@cse.mrt.ac.lk) |
| Development | outside the UD repo (elsewhere): fixes go to the source or the converter |

## Annotation layers

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

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 | 534 | 2 536 | 2 584 | 43 | 0 |
| **total** | 534 | 2 536 | 2 584 | 43 | 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

> MWTT - Modern Written Tamil Treebank has sentences taken primarily from a text called "A Grammar of Modern Tamil by Thomas Lehmann (1993). This initial release has 536 sentences of various lengths, and all of these are added as the test set.

## Introduction

*The README has no such section.*

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