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3.

Sentence patterns:
N+V+N →N+V+P+N
Homer talked to Marge.
Homer talked about Bart.
Maggie crawled to Lisa.
SLH ran from Homer.

Sentence patterns:
N+V+N →N+VP+PP
Homer talked to Marge about Bart.
Maggie crawled from Lisa to Marge.

B. Homer talked to Marge about Bart.

7. A. This grammar generates a tree for the sentence The man found
Homer there. Give the tree.

ed

B. This grammar assigns two different trees to the sentence Marge found the vase
broken (that is, the sentence is syntactically ambiguous under these rules). Give the
two trees.

ed

C. To generate the sentences in (1)-(3), you must add a rule or some


rules to the grammar. State what rule(s) you must add. (note: Think of
this as a cumulative process, so far each sentence, list only a rule or rules
that you haven’t added at an earlier point.)

1.
Bart left the party angry at Lisa
rewrite NP using
NP Lisa

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