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Open Question

Definition​

Used when: the source argument is a question that does not request particular information and is open-ended. These are mostly of the "how about you" variety; These are meant to address the kind of questions which we think place few if any syntactic constraints on the form of the answer.

Example open questions:

  • How about you?
  • What do you think?
  • How about yours?
  • What are your opinions on it?
  • What do you think about the benefits in jobs?
  • How about your community?

Examples​

(140) T: But yeah, we can build single compounds and double compounds.
(141) T: So what do you think..?
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(141) -- OpenQuestion --> (140)
(89) A: Okay, what should we do now?
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(89) -- OpenQuestion --> (89)
(66) A: How's your day going?
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(66) -- OpenQuestion --> (66)