Main verb with imperative do — Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin — proposal

Proposal: accept the EWT custom, not the rule of _en/feat/VerbForm.md (Main verb with imperative do: Inf in the text, Imp in the data). Align the 8 EWT exceptions with VerbForm=Inf with the EWT → mova converter.

What exactly in mova. In an imperative sentence with do (Don't worry, Do not hesitate, DO NOT GO HERE) both verbs — do and the main VB — have Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin.

Why.

• More consistent. The main verb of an imperative sentence becomes Imp regardless of whether do is present: Go! and Don't go! are annotated the same way. By the letter of VerbForm.md, go in Don't go would be Inf, and the mood feature would sit only on the function word.
• More informative. The sentence type (directive) is visible on the lexical verb, which is the one taking part in the fact. For RAG and kg this is a clause-level feature (the UD survey digest «future», section 4, item 4).
• Matches most of the gold data: 98 of 106.
• Lossless into the standard. The literal VerbForm.md form is obtained deterministically: a VB with aux do that has Mood=Imp → VerbForm=Inf, remove Mood. Export to "EWT 2.18" diverges from gold only in the 8 exceptions.

Evidence from the data (EWT 2.18, engine): Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin — 98, VerbForm=Inf — 8 (Don't cling, Don't go!, don't let that fool you, Do not go there…). Separately: Don't with Mood=Ind in imperative sentences — 7; these are EWT errors (report verbal.md).

Rule for the EWT → mova converter (proposal for EWT ↔ mova — converter, the convert language from The Mova dialect: a UD metadialect, treebanks, and converters):

rule: ewt.imperative-do-main
what: main VB with imperative do — Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin, as in 98 of 106 EWT cases
from: ewt
to: mova
match: v[xpos=VB, feats.VerbForm=Inf]; d[lemma=do, rel=aux, head=v, feats.Mood=Imp]
set: v[feats+=VerbForm=Fin; feats+=Mood=Imp]
source: EWT 2.18; dialects/mova/seeds/imperative-do.md

Checked with the engine (en convert-check, 26.09): on EWT 2.18 the rule changes exactly 8 words, FEATS VerbForm=Inf → Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin. There is no reverse rule: the 8 exceptions are not visible from the tree, so the reverse-run report has a separate line for these 8 tokens.

Check. Seed Imperative mood: en.verbal.imperative-do-main-verb (warn) follows EWT, vb-aux-infinitive excludes imperative do. Counter ud218.imperative-do-inf.

Origin. Main verb with imperative do: Inf in the text, Imp in the data; 2.18:docs/_en/feat/VerbForm.md:12, :21.

Mova decides.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/dialects/mova/seeds/imperative-do/