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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def np_counts(self):
 """Dictionary of noun phrase frequencies in this text. """

    counts = defaultdict(int)
    for phrase in self.noun_phrases:
        counts[phrase] += 1
    return counts