Here you are given a series of phrases and sentences in Lang…
Here you are given a series of phrases and sentences in Language X. Language X is a real language whose words have been replaced by English words. (The words America and Canada mean the same thing in both Language X and English.) Your task is to understand the word order of Language X well enough that you can generalize it to new examples. Language X English Dog cap tree One student Pop key dog cap tree I see one student Gray America From America Blue red Canada Live in Canada Pop key dog cap gray America yak tree I see one student who comes from America Cat key book cap gray America yak tree You see three students who come from America Sheep key book cap blue red Canada yak loaf She sees three teachers who live in Canada Now please translate into Language X, and explain how you figure out your answers: You see three teachers. You see three teachers from Canada. She sees one student who lives in America. (Totally optional: Do you know what real language Language X is based on?)
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1. The head of a phrase is the most important element in the phrase. In this phrase “worried about tests”, which word is the head? Why? 2. A sentence is structurally ambiguous if the same string of words can be assigned two distinct syntactic structures (and thus, two distinct meanings). Which sentence is structurally ambiguous? Please explain how these ambiguous sentences are ambiguous. For each of the two distinct interpretations of this string, please label each word for its lexical category (noun, verb, adjective, preposition, etc). Iraqi Head Seeks Arms Lawyers Give Poor Free Legal Advice Pillars Replaced by Alumni 3. Constituency tests. Please use a constituency test to show that the string in Maryland is a constituent in sentence (2a), while Maryland for is not a constituent. (1) I lived in Atlanta for 18 years. 4. Phrase Structure rules. Please use the provided Phrase Structure rules to indicate the Phrase Structure of the sentence The kid threw the ball. Phrase Structure rules: S -> NP VP NP -> (Det) N VP -> V(transitive) NP VP -> V(intransitive)
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