Basic terminology 3


Example: The old teacher told fairy tales in the English lessons.

Look again at the tree diagram above and answer the following questions:

a) Which of the following pairs of adjacent words form constituents? (:vips 10566:)

b) Which of the following sets of nodes are sisters? (:vips 10567:)

d) What is the mother of each of the following DPs?


Source of the picture:
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(:vips 10568:)

e) What are the immediate constituents of VP? (:vips 10569:)

f) What are the daughters of P'? (:vips 10570:)

g) What are the arguments of V°? (:vips 10571:)