  While the highly multilingual Universal Dependencies (UD) project provides
extensive guidelines for clausal structure as well as structure within
canonical nominal phrases, a standard treatment is lacking for many
"mischievous" nominal phenomena that break the mold. As a result, numerous
inconsistencies within and across corpora can be found, even in languages with
extensive UD treebanking work, such as English. This paper surveys the kinds of
mischievous nominal expressions attested in English UD corpora and proposes
solutions primarily with English in mind, but which may offer paths to
solutions for a variety of UD languages.
