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This section includes some of the pre-processing rules we discussed based on the functionality of the tagger.

Semi-modals

The following semi-modals were pre-processed before parsing and tagging sentence structures: have to, had to, got to, have/had got to, gotta, ought to, BE supposed to, BE going to, gonna, BE about to, and used to. These were incorporated in the updated versions.

Notes:

  1. BE includes all its inflected forms for person and tense.
  2. used to is treated as a semi-modal only when it is not preceded by BE.

Passive

We tagged the passive construction, not the be-verb itself.

  • They knew what they were going to be asked. (verb-wh-complement)

Coordination

We tagged the first main verb, not the subsequent verbs.

  • A truck driver who just slammed and kicked at everything (noun-finite relative clause)