Name: LIN 3010 - Assignment #3: Syntactic Analysis (50pts) Group members (up to 3) (Note: Each group member must submit their own copy of this assignment) 1. Constituency tests (36pts)

For each of the following sentences, (i) draw the tree structure, and (ii) support your tree structure with diagnostics for constituency. (a) The large red barge drifted slowly under the bridge (i) Tree structure: 1 (12pts) (6pts) (ii) Constituent: Test: Constituency tests (6pts) STEP 1: Identify one constituent, e.g., the fresh pizza in the sentence Mary ate the fresh pizza STEP 2: Name the phrase it is, i.e., NP, PP, or VP Constituency test #1 Name: STEP 3: Use 2 constituency tests to support your choice, i.e., answer to a question, movement (fronting or clefting), substitution, or coordination Test: 2 Constituency test #2 Name: Phrase: (b) The naive trainer quietly led the stubborn horse into the stable 3 (i) Tree structure: (12pts) (6pts) (ii) Constituent: Test: Constituency tests (6pts) STEP 1: Identify one constituent, e.g., the fresh pizza in the sentence Mary ate the fresh pizza STEP 2: Name the phrase it is, e.g., NP, PP, or VP STEP 3: Use 2 constituency tests to support your choice. Constituency test #1 Name: NOTE: Please make sure that you only choose one NP, one VP, and one PP across all three sentences in this section of the assignment, i.e., if you chose an NP for (a), do not choose an NP again for (b), choose PP or VP Test: 4 Constituency test #2 Name: Phrase: (c) My neighbor sent a graduation present to her sister yesterday (i) 5 Tree structure: (12pts) (6pts)