What punctuation marks are uses at the end of sentences and how often? The details for one and two punctuation marks are given in the following tables.
The data give an overview of the punctuation used. This allows an estimation of the part of reported speech in the corpus, for instance.
First table:
select right(sentence,1), count(*) as cnt from sentences group by right(sentence,1) order by cnt desc limit 20;
Second table:
select right(sentence,2), count(*) as cnt from sentences where right(sentence,2) regexp "^[\.\!\?]" group by right(sentence,2) order by cnt desc limit 20;