Aux "does" tagged as plural

[Zhuo Chen]

I agree. I need the number of utterances with SUBJ. That means, no matter 
"what" or "this/that" is tagged as SUBJ, I will get the same number. 
However, CHILDES does not tag SUBJ consistently. 

On Sunday, April 13, 2014 3:14:25 PM UTC-4, William Snyder wrote:
>
> 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 <czcin... at gmail.com<javascript:>
> > 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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