Using the Martian English phrase structure rules, draw a tree of the same Martian English sentence: Made a spaceship green the child happy. Be sure to draw the tree of the Martian English sentence, not its Earth English translation! Upload your tree as a pdf file here if it works; if not, upload it to the “Test 1 trees” assignment in Canvas.
Read DetailsWrite two paraphrases to unambiguously explain the two meanings of this sentence. (You can just change the order of the words if that makes it clear, but feel free to reword your paraphrases entirely if necessary.) The children have eaten crunchy pretzels and cookies. [paraphrase1] [paraphrase2]
Read DetailsEnglish Morphology: Hierarchical Structure For each of the words below, show the order of attachment of the affixes, giving the part of speech at each step. Unlike the previous group of questions, put all of the morphemes you’re dealing with at a particular step into the same box, but with hyphens between them. Type “x” into unneeded spaces, if any.
Read DetailsMartian Syntax Linguists doing fieldwork on Mars have discovered a different dialect of English spoken by the planet’s inhabitants. They have described the language with the following lexicon and phrase structure rules: Martian phrase structure rules S → VP NP NP → Det N N → N Adj VP→ V (NP) VP → V (CP) CP → S C Lexicon N = child, spaceship, star, flower Adj = green, shiny, happy V = bought, likes, made, sleeps, knows, climbed Det = a, the C = that Based on the Martian phrase structure rules, mark each sentence as grammatical or ungrammatical. [S1] Knows the spaceship a flower happy. [S2] A flower shiny likes child the. [S3] Knows climbed a flower the child green that the star. [S4] Bought flower green a child. [S5] Sleeps star the.
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