On homework #2, you are asked to draw a couple of trees. Draw them as per the instructions: no node labels, and only nodes that you have evidence for (and triangles over strings of words with no brackets). Don’t use anything like VP, V’, etc. This isn’t a test to see if you remember what happened in LX250, we’re developing the syntactic system from the ground up, and there will ultimately be some (usually slight) differences between the “X-bar” notation that you would have used in LX250 and the notation we’ll use in this class.

So, the goal of the first couple of trees is to mark out the constituents that we have evidence for, based on all that writing of sentences that you did. And the last couple of trees should have about the same level of detail. We’ll get to node labels very soon now, these are the last trees you’ll be drawing without some kind of labels, but for these particular trees, they should be label-free.