Main verb with imperative do: Inf in the text, Imp in the data

Gist. By the rule of VerbForm.md, a VB with an auxiliary has VerbForm=Inf. In Don't go there is an auxiliary do, so go should be Inf. In 98 cases of 106 EWT gives the main verb Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin, just like Do itself.

Guideline.

• 2.18:docs/_en/feat/VerbForm.md:12: VB has Fin «if they don't have an auxiliary or modal verb attached to it»;
• 2.18:docs/_en/feat/VerbForm.md:21: VB has Inf «if they have an auxiliary or modal verb or the inifinitval to attached to it».

There is no exception for imperative do.

EWT 2.18 data (engine):

• VB with aux do that has Mood=Imp — 106;
• of them Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin — 98 (Don't worry, Do not hesitate, DO NOT GO HERE!!!);
• VerbForm=Inf — 8. These are the same constructions: Don't cling (newsgroup-groups.google.com_magicworld_04c89d43ff4fd6ea_ENG_20050104_152000-0065), Don't go! (reviews-263630-0009), don't let that fool you (reviews-280663-0008), Do not go there (reviews-020992-0012) and others.

Separately: Don't with Mood=Ind in imperative sentences — 7 (report verbal.md, vb-aux-infinitive). These are errors on do itself, not on the main verb.

Where the discrepancy comes from. The text describes a rule by form (an auxiliary is present → Inf). EWT annotates by sentence type: the whole sentence is imperative, so the main verb is too. The 8 cases with Inf are a data inconsistency.

Sources. 2.18:docs/_en/feat/VerbForm.md; seed Imperative mood (en.verbal.imperative-do-main-verb); report verbal.md, discrepancy 2.

"Fired" — all VB with imperative do; "violations" — those that are not Inf, as the text requires.

rule: ud218.imperative-do-inf
what: VB with imperative do — VerbForm.md requires Inf, EWT uses Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin
match: v[xpos=VB]; d[lemma=do, rel=aux, head=v, feats.Mood=Imp]
require: v[feats.VerbForm=Inf]
severity: warn
source: UD 2.18 docs/_en/feat/VerbForm.md:12, :21

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/docs/dialects/ud-2.18/seeds/imperative-do/