:
The above multi word adpositions are 2, respectively 3 items long
(first digit after category tag), and auf is the first item in
the multi word unit auf daß (second digit,
2), daß is the second item, 2.
However, in these guidelines, no special tags are given to multi word items yet, for technical reasons (most of the existing tagsets and taggers don't handle multi word items) and theoretical reasons (the correct treatment of multi word items is a shared task between lexicon, tokenizer, maybe with some feedback from taggers or (partial) parsers). As long as these interrelationships are not fully described yet, we treat multi word items in the following simple fashion: Each component of a (continuous or discontinuous) multi word unit is tagged the same way as in its standard behaviour elsewhere in the text. For consistency, these decisions must be recorded in the guidelines.