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2.4 Rules in tree

  • The student loved his social assignment

Sentence is a simple linear string of words.But this linear string misses representation of several important internal structures about how we represent in our mind.

Let us see the internal structures

Like "The" in above statement is linked more to the word "student" than to it is loved or "social assignment"

Again we can trun the statement The student loved his social assignment The student loved his social teacher The student loved his mathematics teacher The

The student or The Loved or hated are Same Entity

Here "The student","loved" and "his social assignment" are acting as group of words with same functionality.This units are called constituents.

  • Now,To capture these internal structures or intuitions we use hierarchy structure.
  • The hierarchy structure or tree for above statement is

TP[NP[D,N]],[VP[V,NP[D,AdjP[A]]]]

  • TP
    • NP -