Adding singular/plural information to MuNPEx NP chunks

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It's trivial to modify the MuNPEx JAPE rules to include information in the NP annotation as to whether the noun phrase is singular or plural, but I think this is a useful feature when using NP annotations to assist in coreference and anaphora resolution.

I split the 'head' rule in en-np-parts.jape into two rules, one for plural heads (NNS, NNPS, PRP where the string is we|our|their|they|yours|theirs|ours) and one for the the rest. I added a type=plural|singular feature to each. This is copied over to the NP annotation in np.jape.

Cheers

Phil