Modern Grammar - Assignment 16 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 on CANVAS entitled "Some First NP Rules" to find information on how intermediate hierarchical 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. her computer
   2. an old friend
   3. bad habits
   4. bees
   5. both problems
   6. much happiness
   7. Alejandro
   8. us
   9. that enormous pink hippo
   (note: two adjectives just means adding two APs, each as a separate step!)

   
   

2. Now, using your new NP rules and the S and VP rules from the last assignment, try both to draw the correct tree structures for the following sentences, and to list the phrase structure rules used to build each tree. For the one sentence with a verb using a VP rule you haven't used before, the VP rule is provided.
   
   1. Many birds fly.
   2. Those people laughed.
   3. Bats flew into this castle.
   And try this last sentence (with the new VP rule provided):
   
   4. That novel is a bestseller. (VP --> V NP)