Exercise 4: Exercise 4:
Go to computer
aids file. Run Grammar 1 then 2.
Grammar 1: Generate the following nouns: paper, desk, police, shears. Grammar 1 Macintosh or Grammar 1 DOS.
Grammar 1 is an exercise in the development of the lexical for nouns. Choose "2. Lexicon:". You are asked to develop the lexical entry for the following nouns:
book, flour, cattle, tooth, ox, child, scissors.
The features Count and Plural will be expecially important for the following grammar 2. If you make a mistake here, it will be reflected in 2. Some of the other features you may not understand. In this case type in minus. An incorrect feature can always be corrected at a later date.
Grammar 2: Generate the following: Grammar 2 Macintosh or Grammar 2 DOS.
Grammar 2 is an exercise in the development of the lexical entry for quantifiers and if your entries work correctly with your entries for nouns. You are now asked to develop the lexical entry for the following quantifiers:
NULL, one, two, three, four, five.
Now, run "1. New Phrase". You will be prompted first for a quantifier, then a noun. Then you will be prompted for the phrase the immediately dominates N, then the phrase that immediately dominates Q. Try to generate:
one book, two teeth, three children, and four oxen.
If your lexicon is correct, then you will get the above.
Now try to generate the following ungrammatical phrases:
*one flour, *two rice(s), *[NULL] book, *two police.
What happens? What is your result?
