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This practice exercise helps students develop skills in syntactically analyzing sentences, identifying their key constituents, and creating hierarchical tree diagrams of such sentences. Completing all of the sentences successfully provides an option to download and print a certificate of completion.
Some Notes and Practice Problems on Syntactic Tree Structures 1. Some Notes on Drawing Syntactic Trees In any ‘Introduction to Linguistics’ course, there comes a time when you are asked to use Phrase Structure (PS) rules to draw syntactic trees for various sentences of English. In this class, our PS rules for English currently look as follows:
(a) Draw the phrase structure tree for the Ivatan sentence in (A). [2 points] (b) Think about what the trees for the Ivatan examples in (B-C) would look like (you do not need to draw the trees). It is not straighforward to draw the tree structures for (B-C). Explain what the problem is. (You do not need to solve the problem.) [2 points]
Drawing Detailed Tree Diagrams. Linguistics 222. March 11, 2013. 1 Drawing Trees: Practice. Draw trees for the following sentences. You should fully expand all XPs with more than one word|only use triangles for 1-word XPs!
A collection of downloadable worksheets, exercises and activities to teach Syntax, shared by English language teachers.
Having examined movement operations from a variety of word positions (e.g., Wh-word, Aux-word, wanna contraction and negative clitic movement) we can begin to look at the next level of language (the phrase) and see if movement can likewise be found.
A tree is a diagram, representing the structure of a clause and the relationship between the elements in it. A tree usually contains a V ERB P HRASE (VP) , a T ENSE P HRASE (TP) and a C OMPLEMENTIZER
