YNQU Yes/no questions
Definition
Questions answerable with yes or no (subject-auxiliary inversion without WH-word).
Detection Rules
Aux/modal + subject + ... + question mark.
cql[pos="MD|VBP|VBZ|VBD"] [pos="PRP|NNP|NN"] []* [word="?"]
mfte
MFTE YNQU (lines 1126-1131) is a catch-all: any question mark not already claimed by WHQU or QUTAG. We match all ? marks (excluding those preceded by UH or common discourse markers that MFTE would tag as DMA/FPUH), then subtract WHQU and QUTAG counts. The preceding-token check replicates MFTE’s “not preceded by _UH|_FPUH|_DMA” condition.
cql[pos!="UH" & word!="right|sure|okay|yeah|yep|yes|nope"] [word="?"]
combine: _ & -WHQU & -QUTAG
Normalization
Per finite_verbs
Sources
- mfte — Le Foll, Elen & Shakir, Muhammad (2023/2025) : Multi-Feature Tagger of English (MFTE) — Python version