diff --git a/analyze_tagged_corpus.py b/analyze_tagged_corpus.py
index 530847c..7a4d51c 100755
--- a/analyze_tagged_corpus.py
+++ b/analyze_tagged_corpus.py
@@ -57,9 +57,7 @@
 tag_counts = FreqDist()
 word_set = set()
 
-if args.corpus in ['conll2000', 'switchboard']:
-	kwargs = {}
-elif args.simplify_tags:
+if args.simplify_tags and args.corpus not in ['conll2000', 'switchboard']:
 	kwargs = {'simplify_tags': True}
 else:
 	kwargs = {}
diff --git a/analyze_tagger_coverage.py b/analyze_tagger_coverage.py
index e679d6f..0d3782e 100755
--- a/analyze_tagger_coverage.py
+++ b/analyze_tagger_coverage.py
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@
 	help='Specify fileids to load from corpus')
 corpus_group.add_argument('--fraction', default=1.0, type=float,
 	help='''The fraction of the corpus to use for testing coverage''')
+corpus_group.add_argument('--simplify_tags', action='store_true', default=False,
+	help='Use simplified tags. Requires the --metrics option.')
 
 args = parser.parse_args()
 
@@ -42,6 +44,13 @@
 
 corpus = load_corpus_reader(args.corpus, reader=args.reader, fileids=args.fileids)
 
+kwargs = {'fileids': args.fileids}
+
+if args.simplify_tags and not args.metrics:
+	raise ValueError('simplify_tags can only be used with the --metrics option')
+elif args.simplify_tags and args.corpus not in ['conll2000', 'switchboard']:
+	kwargs['simplify_tags'] = True
+
 # TODO: support corpora with alternatives to tagged_sents that work just as well
 if args.metrics and not hasattr(corpus, 'tagged_sents'):
 	raise ValueError('%s does not support metrics' % args.corpus)
@@ -79,7 +88,7 @@
 	tag_test = []
 	tag_word_refs = collections.defaultdict(set)
 	tag_word_test = collections.defaultdict(set)
-	tagged_sents = corpus.tagged_sents(fileids=args.fileids)
+	tagged_sents = corpus.tagged_sents(**kwargs)
 	
 	if args.fraction != 1.0:
 		cutoff = int(math.ceil(len(tagged_sents) * args.fraction))
diff --git a/tests/analyze_tagger_coverage.sh b/tests/analyze_tagger_coverage.sh
index f45a07f..56c4c2d 100755
--- a/tests/analyze_tagger_coverage.sh
+++ b/tests/analyze_tagger_coverage.sh
@@ -33,12 +33,23 @@ analyzing tag coverage of corpora/treebank/tagged with ClassifierBasedPOSTagger
 }
 
 it_does_not_support_metrics() {
-	last_line=$(./analyze_chunker_coverage.py treebank --score 2>&1 | tail -n 1)
-	test "$last_line" "=" "ValueError: treebank does not support scoring"
+	last_line=$(./analyze_tagger_coverage.py movie_reviews --metrics 2>&1 | tail -n 1)
+	test "$last_line" "=" "ValueError: movie_reviews does not support metrics"
 }
 
 it_analyzes_treebank_metrics() {
 	two_lines=$(./analyze_tagger_coverage.py treebank --metrics --fraction 0.5 2>&1 | head -n 5 | tail -n 2)
 	echo "$two_lines" | grep -q "Accuracy:"
 	echo "$two_lines" | grep -q "Unknown words:"
+}
+
+it_requires_metrics_with_simplify_tags() {
+	last_line=$(./analyze_tagger_coverage.py treebank --simplify_tags 2>&1 | tail -n 1)
+	test "$last_line" "=" "ValueError: simplify_tags can only be used with the --metrics option"
+}
+
+it_analyzes_treebank_simplify_tags_metrics() {
+	two_lines=$(./analyze_tagger_coverage.py treebank --simplify_tags --metrics --fraction 0.5 2>&1 | head -n 5 | tail -n 2)
+	echo "$two_lines" | grep -q "Accuracy:"
+	echo "$two_lines" | grep -q "Unknown words:"
 }
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