Adding a Novel Italian Treebank of Marked Constructions to Universal Dependencies

In this paper we present a novel treebank developed to analyse marked constructions in Italian called MarkIT. The resource contains almost 1,300 sentences manually annotated with dependency relations following the Universal Dependencies paradigm. have been extracted from essays written by high-school students along several years, which accounts for structure and topic variability of sentences. work, detail process select sentences, parse them automatically then correct them. covers seven types (839 overall) plus some whose syntax can be wrongly classified as serve negative examples markedness (453 sentences). We also an evaluation parsing performance, comparing model trained on existing treebanks obtained adding MarkIT training set.