Question: This question presumes a partial ( phrase - level ) analysis, not a full sentential ( S ) analysis. Assume you have access to the
This question presumes a partial phraselevel analysis, not a full sentential S analysis. Assume you have access to the L grammar and lexicon plus one additional rule: NP Nominal.
Consider the phrase evening flights from Nashville to Houston that serve dinner. The constituency tree for this phrase adheres to which of the following constraints? Select the two correct constraints.
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The top node of the phrasal constituency tree cannot be NP because there is no Det to trigger this rule: NP Det Nominal.
In order to cover that serve dinner, the postnominal modifier XP in "Nominal Nominal XP must be RelClause.
There are exactly four occurrences of Nominal as internal nodes of the constituency tree.
Agreement rules are not applied in L so there is no way to check that flights agrees with the verb serve
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