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* Type "snores" into the ''Sentence'' textbox and press the "Parse" button or RETURN on your keyboard.  
* Type "snores" into the ''Sentence'' textbox and press the "Parse" button or RETURN on your keyboard.  
** Inspect the result try to understand as much as possible.
** Inspect the result and try to understand as much as possible.
* Now click on the boxed "0" after AGR.
* Now click on the boxed "0" after AGR.
** Inspect the result try to understand as much as possible.
** Inspect the result and try to understand as much as possible.
* Finally, click on the boxed number below the NP in the SPR list.
* Finally, click on the boxed number below the NP in the SPR list.
** Again, inspect the result try to understand as much as possible.
** Again, inspect the result and try to understand as much as possible.
* Click on the new boxed "0" after AGR that appears.
* Click on the new boxed "0" after AGR that appears.
** Now there are two boxed "0"s on the screen. What seems to be their function?
** Now there are two boxed "0"s on the screen. What seems to be their function?

Revision as of 16:56, 15 November 2020

Looking under the hood

Exercise

Go to the Online Grammar and do the following:

  • Type "snores" into the Sentence textbox and press the "Parse" button or RETURN on your keyboard.
    • Inspect the result and try to understand as much as possible.
  • Now click on the boxed "0" after AGR.
    • Inspect the result and try to understand as much as possible.
  • Finally, click on the boxed number below the NP in the SPR list.
    • Again, inspect the result and try to understand as much as possible.
  • Click on the new boxed "0" after AGR that appears.
    • Now there are two boxed "0"s on the screen. What seems to be their function?