Exercise-ch3

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

Basic syntactic notions

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

a. Alex/ talked/ to/ my/ colleaque/ .

b. hobbit_

c. walk_

d. help_

e. (hobit•x)_

2 Add the semantic types for complex expressions:

a. ((walk_ • e_ ) • aragorn_ )_

b. (hobbit_ • y_ )_

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

Lexical entries as Attribute-Value Matrix

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