Exercise 1: Exercise 1:
- Go to Syntactic Structure Testing in Computer Program Aids and complete Exercise 15 therein.
- Next, go to Grammar 1. Run it. you will be prompted whether you want the longer set of explanations. Answer yes. In this exercise, you will be prompted for a noun, and if the noun takes a complement, for that too. Here, you get an initial exercise on creating a lexicon. The grammatical rules are built into the grammar currently. Some noun take no complements. Enter them with the appropriate features. If you type in the wrong feature, you can correct it easily. Some nouns take a complement. To differentiate a simple object-noun from one which takes a complement, it is suggested that you use an underscore "_" to link two parts: e.g. glass of water: GLASS_OF. You may type in anything you want, but you want to get the appropriate output. This program has been designed to eliminate the underscore plus the word that immediately follows it: GLASS_OF-->glass. If you enter GLASS+OF., for example, it will return 'glass+of'. The 'of' will be generated by the grammar. When you first open up the grammar you will have a choice of 1, 2, or 3. It is suggested that you go to 2 (the lexicon) first and enter the words below plus anything you feel like. Then go back and open 1. You will be prompted for a noun, and if it needs a complement, then you will be prompted for a complement of the noun.
- Produce the following phrases:
1. car
2. bush
3. unicorn
4. cup tea
5. *bush tea
6. *car bush.
7. Draw by hand on a separate piece of paper the three structure for #4 above, and indicate the government link(s) that occur here. Don't be concerned now about the missing preposition 'of'.
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