Modern Grammar - Assignment 15 James Madison University

Instructions: Find the answer to each of the questions below. You may decide for yourself whether or not to use the LLAMA-Syntax program. If you use it, remember to set the parser to parse an NP instead of an S for the first set of examples! Also [The assignment will be marked only as an acceptable or unacceptable effort.]

1. First, here's some practice with noun phrases: See the handout HERE to find information on how intermediate structure is handled in noun phrases in the most basic cases, and then attempt to build the correct tree structures for the following noun phrases. Note that to add a line over an N in LLAMA-Syntax, you should just type the dash key immediately after the N.
   1. Angelina
   2. her computer
   3. a friend
   4. that habit
   5. that
   6. himself
   7. bees
   8. both problems
   9. much happiness

   
   

2. Now, try to draw the correct tree structures for the following sentences, and list the phrase structure rules needed to build each tree. For sentences with verbs using VP rules you haven't used before, a VP rule is provided.
   
   1. Many birds landed.
   2. Zeus appeared.
   3. Bats flew into this castle.
   4. That novel is a bestseller. (VP --> V NP)
   5. The zoo gave an armadillo to each child. (VP --> V NP PP)
   6. Aliens took us to their planet.(same VP rule as in the previous sentence)
3. Looking again at the last two sentences above, which one contains an example of a "recipient" semantic role?