Practical Grammar 12

Final Project

In your final class project, your task is to write a grammar for the English auxiliary system.

Exercise 12.1

1. Go to https://xlfg.labri.fr/ and log in.
2. Open the grammar Practical Grammar Final Project.
3. Parse the whole test suite.
4. At this point, none of the grammatical sentences parse.
5. Your task is to make the grammar accept all the grammatical sentences in the test suite while excluding the ungrammatical ones.
6. To achieve this, you will need to add phrase structure rules and lexical entries.

Goals

In what follows, you will find the argument structure representations of some of the test sentences that your grammar should produce.

(1) Fred will buy olives.

(1) Fred has bought olives.