Quiz5

Quiz 5

1. Using the attached grammar, draw a phrase structure tree for each of the following sentences.

a. The confused students stared at the book and copied the first page.

b. All Mary’s boyfriend’s children consider her a useless waste of space.

2a. Modify the grammar in whatever ways are necessary to produce a plausible grammar that will generate the sentences below (and not the ungrammatical strings marked with *’s).

(Note: The modified grammar will require you to propose a new lexical category. It doesn’t matter what you name that category, but give a list of the words that belong to your new category that appear in these data.)

1. Everybody gave something to someone.

2. Everyone smart knew the answer.

3. The teacher and everyone smart knew the answer.

4. I built something really elaborate.

5. The children worked on something fairly difficult.

6. *All people smart knew the answer.

7. *Every person smart knew the answer.

8. *I built a thing really elaborate.

9. *The children worked on it very difficult.

IPro (indefinite pronoun): everybody, everyone, something, someone

NP → IPro (AdjP)

b. Using your modified grammar, draw a phrase structure tree for (2a-3).

Current Grammar: