Assignment on Complements, Adjuncts, and Constituency

1. Apply the do-so substitution test to the bracketed sequence of
words in the following verb phrase to determine whether they form
a VP constituent or not.

Mike will...
a. frequently [read graphic novels] at bed time.
b. frequently [read graphic novels at bed time].
c. frequently [read] graphic novels at bed time.
d. [frequently read graphic novels] at bed time.
e. [frequently read graphic novels at bed time].
f. [frequently read] graphic novels at bed time.
g. frequently read [graphic novels at bed time].

2. Apply the VP fronting test to determine whether the bracketed
sequence in the following verb phrase to determine whether they form
a VP constituent or not.

a. frequently [read graphic novels] at bed time.
b. frequently [read graphic novels at bed time].
c. frequently [read] graphic novels at bed time.
d. [frequently read graphic novels] at bed time.
e. [frequently read graphic novels at bed time].
f. [frequently read] graphic novels at bed time.
g. frequently read [graphic novels at bed time].

Use a frame sentence of the following sort:
Mary says that Mike would frequently read graphic novels at bed time,
and ................, he does ....................

3. Draw trees using our reformulated phrase structure rules for the following
sentences:
a. Abelard wrote a volume of poems in Latin for Heloise.
b. That automobile factories abound in Michigan worries me greatly.
c. The collection of syntax articles with the red cover bores students of syntax in Tucson.
d. The red volume of obscene verse from Italy shocked the puritan soul of the minister with the red beard
   quite throughly yesterday.