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a. [Alex [talked [to [my best friend]/{ NP _3 }]/{ PP _3 } ]/{ VP _3 } ]/{ S _3 }
a. [Alex [talked [to [my best friend]/{ NP _3 }]/{ PP _3 } ]/{ VP _3 } ]/{ S _3 }
a. [{ S _2} Alex [{ VP _3 }talked [{ PP _3 } to [{ NP _3 } my best friend]


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Additional Exercises for Chapter 3: Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar

Basic syntactic notions

Parts of speech

Determine the part of speech of the words in the sentences.
Use the following part of speech labels: A, Adv, Conj, Comp, Det, N, P, V

a. Alex/

talked/

to/

my/

best/

friend/

.
b. You/

might/

suspect/

that/

Pat/

is/

a/

genius/

.
c. The/

title/

of/

a/

book/

largely/

determines/

whether/

it/

will/

be/

successful/

or/

a/

flop/

.


Feel free to send feedback on this exercise to Manfred Sailer.

Syntactic categories

Determine the syntactic categories of the following groups of words in the sentences.
Use the following labels: AP, AdvP, NP, PP, VP. Write "-" if the group of words does not form a constitutent.

a. [Alex [talked [to [my best friend]/

]/

]/

]/
a. [

Alex [

talked [

to [

my best friend]


Feel free to send feedback on this exercise to Manfred Sailer.

Lexical entries as Attribute-Value Matrix

Provide the required information on the lexical properties of the underlined words in the following sentences.
Note:

  • Put a minus ("-") if a slot should not receive any filling
  • Use det, noun, prep or verb for the HEAD values.

1 Alex read a book yesterday.

PHON


SYNSEM | LOCAL | CAT | HEAD


SYNSEM | LOCAL | CAT | VAL | SUBJ <

>
SYNSEM | LOCAL | CAT | VAL | SPR <

>
SYNSEM | LOCAL | CAT | VAL | COMPS <

>

2 Alex talked to a friend.

PHON


SYNSEM | LOCAL | CAT | HEAD


SYNSEM | LOCAL | CAT | VAL | SUBJ <

>
SYNSEM | LOCAL | CAT | VAL | SPR <

>
SYNSEM | LOCAL | CAT | VAL | COMPS <

>

3 Pat liked this new documentary on African wild life.

PHON


SYNSEM | LOCAL | CAT | HEAD


SYNSEM | LOCAL | CAT | VAL | SUBJ <

>
SYNSEM | LOCAL | CAT | VAL | SPR <

>
SYNSEM | LOCAL | CAT | VAL | COMPS <

>

4 Alex talked to a friend.

PHON


SYNSEM | LOCAL | CAT | HEAD


SYNSEM | LOCAL | CAT | VAL | SUBJ <

>
SYNSEM | LOCAL | CAT | VAL | SPR <

>
SYNSEM | LOCAL | CAT | VAL | COMPS <

>


Feel free to send feedback on this exercise to Manfred Sailer.


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