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Assign Phrasal Category Labels

The trees show the constituent structures for the following sentences, but the syntactic category labels are missing.

Use the part of speech labels: N, V, A, Adv, P, Conj, Comp, Det, Aux, To, Have, Be, Not.

Use the phrasal category labels: NP, N', VP, AuxP, AP, PP, S, S'.

Example:

           ____S____
          /         \
         /         __[5]___
        /         /       \
       /       _[4]_        \
      /       /     \        \
    [2]      /     [3]      AdvP
     |      /      /  \      |
     N     V     [1]  N     Adv  
     |     |      |   |      |
    Pat talked   to Sandy yesterday.

[1]: P
[2]: NP
[3]: PP
[4]: VP
[5]: VP

1. Pat knows that the students like Sandy.

       
                _[8]_
               /     \
              /      _[7]_
             /      /     \
            /      /     __S'_
           /      /     /     \
          /      /     /     _[6]_
         /      /     /     /     \
        /      /     /     /       \
       /      /     /     /        [5]_
      /      /     /    NP        |    \
     /      /     /    /  \       |     \
   [3]     /     /    /    N'     |     [4]
    |     /     /    /     |      |      |
    N    V    [1]  Det     N     [2]     N
    |    |     |    |      |      |      |
   Pat knows that  the students like   Sandy.

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2. Kim plans to enter university after high school

                _[18]_
               /      \
              /       [17]
             /       /    \
            /       /   __[16]__
           /       /   /        \
          /       /   /      ____[15]_____
         /       /   /      /             \
        /       /   /    [13]             [14]
       /       /   /    /    \             / \
      /       /   /    /    [11]          /  [12]
     /       /   /    /      |           /    | 
   [8]      /   /    /      [9]         /    [10]
    |      /   /    /        |         /      |
   [1]   [2]  [3] [4]       [5]      [6]     [7]
    |    |     |   |         |        |       |
   Kim  plans to enter  university after high school

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