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Question

A question is an utterance which serves as a request for information. Questions are sometimes distinguished from interrogatives, which are the grammatical forms, typically used to express them. Rhetorical questions, for instance, are interrogative in form but may not be considered bona fide questions, as they are not expected to be answered.

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Question

Nodes93
Edges92
Triples154
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.021505
Components1

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Top relations

related to Further reading · 29
Question → Aldershot, Aletheia, Avebury, Berti, Eduardo, Encyclopedia, Enrico, Essays, Etranger, Fieser, France, George, Hamblin, James, Joseph Wayne, Lillegard, Lo, Muratta Bunsen, Norman, Paul Edwards
related to Answering negative questions · 16
Question → An, Answering, Do, Don't, English, For, Is, Japanese, Korean, Negative, No, Shouldn't, The, The Japanese, These, Yes
related to Origins · 16
Question → Anne Premack, David, Enculturated, For, Granny's, It, Kanzi, Me, Sarah, The, Though, Washoe, What, When Daddy, Where, Who
related to Open questions · 9
Question → An, English, European, For, In, In English, Open, These, They
related to Responses and answers · 9
Question → Cambridge, English Language, For, Fortunately, Is Alice, Only, Semantic, The, The Cambridge Grammar
related to Alternative questions · 8
Question → An, England, For, Ireland, None, Such, The, Wales
related to Polar questions · 8
Question → Another, Cross-linguistically, Different, English, French, Japanese, Mandarin, Polish
related to Punctuation · 8
Question → An, As, Cyrillic, Cómo, How, In, In Spanish, Latin
related to Indirect questions · 7
Question → As, Ask, English, For, Indirect, These, Where
related to Question formation · 7
Question → European, French, German, In English, Open, Questions, Where

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Important terminology

questions interrogative english may example languages answer use answers also polar alternative form possible yes open information language intonation one

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Questionis autterance which serves as a request for information0.90text
Questionis aillocutionary category of speech act which seeks to obtain information from the addressee.At the level of syntax0.90text
Questionis apolar question formed by the addition of an interrogative fragment0.90text
Questionis apiece of language that completely0.90text
the English exampleinstance ofpolar questions are those0.80text
alternative semantics or inquisitive semanticsinstance ofIn approaches to formal semantics0.80text
questions are regarded as the denotations of interrogativesinstance ofIn approaches to formal semantics0.80text
and are typically identified as sets of the propositions which answer theminstance ofIn approaches to formal semantics0.80text
wheninstance ofwhich uses an interrogative word0.80text
whoinstance ofwhich uses an interrogative word0.80text
or whatinstance ofwhich uses an interrogative word0.80text
echo questionsinstance ofwith certain exceptions0.80text

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