Practice for quiz 2
Draw the phrase structure trees for following sentences:
Students with good grades get good jobs.
The teacher wrote the answer on the board.
Some students sleep in class .
Paraphrase the following sentence and show the structural ambiguity by drawing the two different phrase structure trees.
The man watched the woman with a telescope.
Meaning a) ______
______
Meaning b) ______
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Phrase structure tree a) Phrase structure tree b)For
For following sentences write the phrase structure rules. The first one has been done for you.
I like pizza with mushrooms.
S= NP+VP
NP= N
VP= V+NP
NP= NP+PP
NP= N
PP= P+NP
Some people like Whisky with coke.
Students with good grades find good jobs.
The teacher wrote the answer on the board.
For each group of words given as follows, state what semantic feature or features distinguish between the classes of (a) words and (b) words.
Example: (a) widow, mother, sister, aunt, maid
(b) widower, father, brother, uncle, butler
The (a) words are female
The (b) words are male
1. (a) bachelor, man, boy, son, pope
(b) stallion, rooster, ram, bull
The (a) words are ______
The (b) words are ______
2. (a) widow, grandmother, professor,
(b) boy, girl, baby,
The (a) words are ______
The (b) words are ______
3. (a) stone, wood, metal, cement
(b) feathers, velvet, pillow, sofa
The (a) words are ______
The (b) words are ______
4. (a) leopard, ostrich, cheetah, falcon
(b) ant, whale, turtle mouse
The (a) words are ______
The (b) words are ______
1.Identify the Hypernym (superordinate) in each set (it’s one of the words).
a) house, shed, building, garage, cottage, hutb) plate, saucer, cup, soup bowl, dish, serving bowl
c) stream, river, rivulet, creek, brook, tributary
d) glance, peep, stare, leer, look (at), view, watch
e) hurricane, tornado, gale, storm, typhoon
Indicate the lexical relationship (for antonyms indicate whether they are gradable or complimentary)
right/wrong ______
odd/unusual ______
moist/damp ______
present/absent ______
Tarantula/spider ______
Give 2 semantic properties for each word
budget ______
scissors ______
husband ______
whale ______
university ______
Paraphrase the ambiguous meaning of following sentences
I know more beautiful women than Angelina Jolie
Meaning a) ______
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Meaning b) ______
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The parents of the bride and groom were waiting outside.
Meaning a) ______
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Meaning b) ______
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