322 Syntax

Exercise 3

Answer Sheet

Complete the following. Each numbered section works on a particular topic:

1. The following are head and complement. Draw a tree structure for each phrase in the X⁰ notation:

a. eat cherries

b. on bread

c. glass of milk

d. fond of coffee

3. Continue—use NP :

glasses of milk

boxes of pencils

five bottles of beer.

(Don't mark the 'five' part of this, just 'bottles of beer.'

4. Continue—use NP triangle (short hand) for the NPs here:

place the book on the desk

set the cups on those two counters.

5. Continue; modifiers are introduced:

orange shirt

dirty old mop

tired students

ten exhausted instructers

(similar to above; ignore 'ten')

6. Continue—use NP (short hand) for the NPs):

slowly drink two large glasses of warm milk

Note: A¹ = slowly should A_k¹ and this should dominate A_k⁰.

walk rapidly right up to the blackboard

Note: P_j¹ = to is incorrect; it shjould be P_j⁰.