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Syntactic Theory » Exercises » for HPSG » Generating sentences

Syntactic Theory


CFG (Context-free Phrase Structure Grammar)

Generating sentences

Consider the following example grammar (notational variant from Sag et al. 2003, p.27):

Lexicon:

D: the, some
A: big, brown, old
N: birds, fleas, dog, hunter
V: attacked, ate, watched
P: for, beside, with

Rules:

  1. (:vips 8793:)
  2. (:vips 8794:)

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