What is interrogative mood?

Definition
	An interrogative mood is an epistemic mood that signals that the speaker wishes to elicit information concerning the content of his or her utterance from the addressee.

Generic
	An interrogative mood is a kind of
	What is judgment modality?

Concept module: interrogative mood
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