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POS tags for 'whatever' #393
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An example of the error you have in mind is this, where it's the head of the noun phrase?
whereas in this case, it is acting as a determiner?
then this one seems different from the other two
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Yes, of the three conllu examples in your post, I think only the middle one should be WDT, because it acts as a determiner. The others have typical head deprels. |
The WH-ever pronouns enter into some tricky constructions involving interrogative/relative clauses with particular meanings. I have not yet figured out what to do with these dependent WH cases from #278. See also the "no matter" subsection of the English RC guidelines (still TBD). |
And: I suspect the 1 UH token is an error. |
How would you label "Whatever" as a complete sentence, then? |
WP. I am guessing that "boy" in "Oh boy!" and "Dude!" would both be tagged as nouns, and "Amazing!" as an adjective, though they head an utterance with exclamatory meaning. |
Fixed in GUM upstream |
Though I am keeping INTJ as the UPOS at least for now (cf. #429) because I am not sure what features would be appropriate if tagged as PRON. |
Note that the structure of "whatever" adjuncts is still up in the air (are they relative or interrogative?)—related to "no matter" (#376). |
It seems "whatever" has 4 POS tags in EWT:
The wrong WDT cases should be corrected (I see some of these in GUM and ON as well). I'm not sure if we want UH - OntoNotes seems to treat these literally so GUM does as well. Should we use UH for the exclamation? (considering we don't use UH for a dejected 'what?')
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