{"id":248,"date":"2008-12-13T15:22:37","date_gmt":"2008-12-13T19:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ling.bu.edu\/blog\/lx522f08\/2008\/12\/13\/extra-credit-homework\/"},"modified":"2008-12-13T15:22:37","modified_gmt":"2008-12-13T19:22:37","slug":"extra-credit-homework","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ling-blogs.bu.edu\/lx522f08\/2008\/12\/13\/extra-credit-homework\/","title":{"rendered":"Extra credit homework"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone. Ok, here’s the deal with the extra credit homework (trees are easy to draw<\/em>).<\/p>\n

The entire homework is relatively elaborate and it’s a bit more “thinky” than pretty much any of the homeworks so far. It’s not so much to practice doing things, but to think your way through the problem. You’ll notice that the instructions are practically a small paper, and you have to read it pretty thoroughly. So, I expect it will take you a while to do the whole thing.<\/p>\n

There’s a sense in which it would be sad to do just part of it, because the aim of the project is to come up with a tree for Trees are easy to draw<\/em>, but this involves seeing why it is difficult and dealing with the problems that arise. So, the extra credit homework takes you through step by step, trying to bring the problems up and having you identify them. So, if you stop partway through, you won’t have whatever satisfaction there might be in getting to the actual answer.<\/p>\n

However, time is also finite, and so I do want to make it possible to do as much as you have time for (or as much as you can before getting stuck, if you do) and still get credit for having done so when you turn it in. So, what I will do is this:<\/p>\n

Points from the extra credit assignment (there are 43) will augment your second-lowest homework score, and can augment your third-lowest homework score by up to 8. My rationale for this is that the idea is that this is supposed to be a replacement for the second-lowest score, but I want it to be possible to do less than the whole thing. What this does mean, however, is that if your second- and third-lowest scores are 30s, then you only need to collect 10 points from this extra credit homework before you hit the ceiling, with both of those two counting as 35s. You have more to gain from this if you have a couple of relatively low scores among your homework scores.<\/p>\n

Also, as promised before, if you did the BUCLD writeups, this redundantly covers the second-lowest homework score, so if you wrote up two talks well, there are only 8 points available from this extra credit assignment to apply to the third-lowest homework score.<\/p>\n

It’s a bit complex, but at least now I hope it is well-defined. For any homework that I still have left to grade, I’ll try to get the points up on the Blackboard site very soon.<\/p>\n

If you’re interested in this level of detail, here’s how I will break down the points:<\/p>\n

Task 1: [4] Constituency tests
\nTask 2: [2] Short answer about constituency
\nTask 3: [6] Finish tree for it is easy for me to draw trees
\nTask 4: [1] Draw case assignment arrows
\nTask 5: [2] Short answer about idioms
\nTask 6: [5] Shortish answer about binding
\nTask 7: [4] Short answer identifying a wh-island violation
\nTask 8: [3] Draw tree for<\/span> John’s book
\nTask 9: [1] Draw case arrow
\nTask 10: [3] Draw tree for<\/span> book’s SELF
\nTask 11:<\/span> [1]<\/span> Identify unchecked feature that crashes one derivation<\/span>
\nTask 12: [3] Shortish answer about wh-islands
\nTask 13: [8] Draw the tree for<\/span> trees are easy to draw<\/em><\/p>\n

Good luck with studying and with finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone. Ok, here’s the deal with the extra credit homework (trees are easy to draw). The entire homework is relatively elaborate and it’s a bit more “thinky” than pretty much any of the homeworks so far. It’s not so much to practice doing things, but to think your way through the problem. You’ll notice …<\/p>\n

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