Assignment 1.  grammaticality

A.    Mark the following sentences as grammatical or ungrammatical
      (make sure you know what "grammatical" and "ungrammatical" mean):

 (1)  Wash your own ears.
 (2)  Wash my own ears.
 (3)  Wash your monkey's own ears.
 (4)  I want Harvey to wash myself.
 (5)  I want Harvey to wash himself.
 (6)  Tell the children to wash himself.
 (7)  A pig that the sky is blue is a happy pig.
 (8)  A pig that can fly is a happy pig.
 (9)  It was me.
(10)  There are going to be some hungry cats in there.
(11)  There appears to be a big hole in it, doesn't there?
(12)  There goes a velociraptor, doesn't there?
(13)  The children aren't going to be hard to persuade to paint themselves blue.
(14)  The children aren't going to be hard to promise to paint themselves blue.
(15)  Bob seems to want to like abstract art.
(16)  Bob wants to seem to like abstract art.
(17)  Bob wants to seem to want to like abstract art.
(18)  Bob wants to seem to persuade to like abstract art.
(19)  Andy tends to be easy to persuade to like any kind of food.
(20)  Andy tends to be likely to persuade to like any kind of food.
(22)  Andy tends to be likely to pretend to like whatever is put before him.
(23)  I have an old tin can to keep my money in.

Discuss anything you find interesting.

B.  Given the following Phrase Structure Grammar and the Lexicon below:

	S  -> NP VP
	VP -> V (NP)
	NP -> (D) N

	N: pig, rope, air, water, shadow, pitchfork
	V: chased, rambled, disassembled, envied, evaporated
	D: a, the

For each of the sentences given below,
	(i)   Is it grammatical?
	(ii)  Is it generated by the grammar?
	(iii) If the answers to (i) and (ii) are different, propose
	      a modification to the grammar.  Discuss the consequences.

(1)  The pig chased a rope.
(2)  A rope chased the pig.
(3)  Chased the pig the rope.
(4)  The pitchfork chased.
(5)  The pitchfork evaporated.
(6)  The shadow rambled.
(7)  A pig envied.
(8)  The pitchfork disassembled the shadow.
(9)  The shadow rambled the pitchfork.
(10) The rope disassembled a computer.
(11) My pig disassembled my computer.
(12) The pig rambled in the shadow.