We explore the annotation of reflexives in Universal Dependencies (UD) 2.2 tree- banks (Nivre et al., 2018), with a stronger focus on Slavic languages. We have tried to find out if the current guidelines are transparent and clear enough for the annotators to follow them successfully. We point out a number of inconsistencies in the current annotation across languages, and propose improvements—sometimes of the guidelines, but mostly of the annotation. The goal of the paper is to contribute to more consistent annotation of reflexives in future releases of UD, which, in turn, will enable broader cross-linguistic studies of this phenomenon.
Universal Dependencies, reflexive pronoun, reflexive construction, annotation consistency
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