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This chapter brings a relatively complete, though very brief, up-to-date information on the annotated corpus of Czech called Prague Dependency Treebank (PDT). It is the first complex linguistically motivated treebank based on a dependency syntactic theory, which contains annotation on several layers of sentence structure (Sects. 3, 4 and 5), coreference and basic discourse relations, genre specification and multiword expressions (Sect. 6). Section 7 presents a commented list of the whole PDT-style family of several follow-up treebanks developed in Prague as well as information on treebanks of other languages using the PDT-style annotation scheme in one way or another. In the last section, a brief description of the data format and the available tools is given.

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  1. 1.

    The term “tectogrammatical” for “deep structure” comes from [9] as a contrast to “phenogrammatical”, i.e. surface structure.

  2. 2.

    Modifications and additions reflected in PDT 3.0 are given in [26].

  3. 3.

    See e.g. the difference noted already by N. Chomsky between Two languages are spoken by everybody in this room versus, Everybody in this room speaks two languages, or John introduced Mary only to Jim , versus John introduced only Mary to Jim.

  4. 4.

    The vertical arrow going from node #PersPron to node firma (‘the firm’).

  5. 5.

    Three dark horizontal arrows going from nodes firma (‘the firm’), #PersPron, and Ostravsko (‘Ostravsko (region)’).

  6. 6.

    The light horizontal arrow going from the node Frýdeckomístecko (‘Frydeckomistecko (region)’).

  7. 7.

    Other values of the attribute range may indicate that a given argument consists of several sentences, or a complex set of nodes.

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The authors are deeply indebted to their colleagues Jarmila Panevová and Markéta Lopatková for their careful reading of the original version of the present contribution and for their most helpful comments and suggestions. Also the comments of the anonymous reviewers were most welcome. The responsibility for the final version, of course, rests with the authors.

The present chapter was written under the financial support of the Grant Agency of the Czech Republic (project P406/12/0658), and the Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (LINDAT-Clarin project LM2010013). This work has been using language resources developed and/or stored and/or distributed by the LINDAT/CLARIN project.

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Hajič, J., Hajičová, E., Mikulová, M., Mírovský, J. (2017). Prague Dependency Treebank. In: Ide, N., Pustejovsky, J. (eds) Handbook of Linguistic Annotation. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0881-2_21

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