When I was putting homework 7 together, I thought “this is too short, I should add a couple more sentences,” and thought further “in fact, I should add some trees that involve nominalized clauses.” So I did. At the last minute. Without drawing up the key. You can tell that I did this because the instructions say to draw the trees for (a-c), and then I provided five sentences—in fact, the intent there is for you to draw all five trees. Except we don’t know how to draw (b).

Specifically, (1b) as it was given is The hamster’s having survived was reported. We don’t know how to do that. You might recall there was some discussion of the fact that (a) the nominalized clauses we were mostly talking about don’t have any auxiliaries, yet this (1b) has have (Perf), and (b) there is another type of nominalized clause that is still internally verbal. The test for whether the nominalized clause is nominal or verbal is to try to put an adjective or adverb in—if you can put in an adjective, it’s nominal, if you can put in an adverb, it’s verbal. In the (1b) I gave you, it takes an adverb (The hamster’s tenaciously having survived was reported) and not an adjective (*The hamster’s tenacious having survived was reported). So, it’s internally verbal and we don’t know how to draw those.

The problem can be solved by getting rid of the having, so do this version of (1b) instead:

(1b’) The hamster’s running was reported.

This one could take an adjective (The hamster’s incredible running was reported), so it is of the type that we know how to do.