However, the Slovene dependency treebank seems to follow a substantially different annotation scheme.
the gold standard annotation of the 1,000 sentences in the Slovene development set treats many of them as consisting of independent sentences (often separated by punctuation marks that our system has no access to), so that the average number of roots per sentence is 2.7: je is mehko soft rekla said When our system is presented with these short components in isolation, it oftentimes analyzes them correctly, but since it has to return a tree with a single root, its performance degrades substantially.