Aux "does" tagged as plural

[William Snyder]

A quick comment -

_what_ probably isn't really functioning as a Subject in "What is this?",
given the difficulty of answering, "A book is this."

- William


On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 5:47 PM, Zhuo Chen <czcindy426 at gmail.com> wrote:

> By the way, it seems that the tagger treats "this" and "that" differently.
> I found that in "what is this/that?", CLAN recognizes "what" as subject
> when we have "that" and does not do so when we have "this". Please see the
> pictures.
>
>
>
> On Thursday, April 10, 2014 5:38:08 PM UTC-4, Zhuo Chen wrote:
>>
>> Dear Chibolts,
>>
>> I found that when "does" is used in Wh-questions, it is sometimes tagged
>> as a plural noun.
>>
>> I'm working on the most updated Valian corpus.
>>
>> I attached a picture of the error.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Cindy
>>
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