Syntax 1 Wiki: Week 4

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?

Exercise

Go to the Online Grammar and do the following:

• Parse the sentence Lilly dances".
• Open the S node and the V node. Don't open any numbered boxes for now.
• Compare the two feature structures.
• For every feature (= attribute), compare the values of mother and daughter.
• Now open the N node, leaving its numbered boxes alone again.
• Compare the three feature structures. What relationships do you detect?

Here are some self-test exercises for you:

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