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question
A question is an interrogative statement, or expression used to request information.
This tag is used when a question is present in the image. May be shown as text or pictographics.
Punctuation only remarks such as ?, !?, or ...? use their respective tags instead, and do not count as a question. Conversely, a question with such punctuation should not use those punctuation tags with the exception of ellipsis usage, which may always be tagged.
Questions that end with !? that are not only punctuation should also be tagged as interrobang_exclamation.
Categories
Questions fall under the umbrella term asking. More concepts can be found there.
General question
General questions have yes, or no answers.
Choice question
Choice questions ask to choose between two or more possibilities.
Special question
Special questions are called special, because they require a more detailed response than a general question. A special question begins with a question word.
- asking_how
- asking_what
- asking_when
- asking_where
- asking_who - Also whom, whose etc.
- asking_why
Tag questions
Tag questions are attached to ends of statements and ask for clarity, agreement, or confirmation of the statement.
Conditional question
This category includes what are know as what if statements. These types of questions mainly involve hypothetical scenarios.
Indirect question
Indirect questions are essentially statements that contain an embedded question.
Other
There are questions that don't cleanly fit into any of the aforementioned categories, at least not by how we tag them. One such example are statements that are used in a questioning manner. Some of these fit into a specific category, but others leave it unclear and ambiguous what is being asked. This form of question may be tagged as questioning_tone and may overlap with other question categories.
Question target
The prefix asking is preferred over questioning.
Related tags
- answer - A response to a question.
