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?

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