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6. What are Kimballs 7 principles of parsing?
- Top-down parsing, Right association, New nodes (Function), 4 sentence nodes, Closure, Fixed Structure, Processing principles
- Bottom-up parsing, Right association, New nodes (Function), 4 sentence nodes, Closure, Fixed Structure, Processing principles
- Top-down parsing, Right association, New nodes (Function), 2 sentence nodes, Closure, Fixed Structure, Processing principles
- Bottom-up parsing, Right association, New nodes (Function), 2 sentence nodes, Closure, Fixed Structure, Processing principles
- Top-down parsing, Left association, New nodes (Function), 2 sentence nodes, Closure, Fixed Structure, Processing principles
7. Which of these is NOT a feature of garden path?
- 2 Stage
- Incremental
- Minimal attachment
- Interactive
- Autonomous
- Serial
- Late closure
8. What is the main goal of interpreting sentences?
- To create the most full representation
- To gain as much semantic knowledge as possible
- To assign thematic roles (subcategorisation frame)
- To interpret the sentence fully using context
9. Is parsing a constructive process?
10. In the sausage machine model, which stage prefers minimal attachment?
11. What is a problem with click displacement?
- NOT temporally sensitive, cant say at what stage of processing this occurs at
- NOT spatially sensitive, cant say at what stage of processing this occurs at
12. What is attachment ambiguity?
- When you can attach to both the noun phrase and verb phrase tree
- When you can only attach the sentence to one tree
13. What is global ambiguity?
- Permanent ambiguity, the ambiguity is NOT resolved at the end of the sentence
- Transient ambiguity, the ambiguity IS resolved by subsequent material
14. What is the canonical sentence strategy?
- Making use of the most common structure in the language to aid comprehension
- Making use of the least common structure in the language to aid comprehension
15. Describe an autonomous parser
- Initial stages of parsing ONLY use syntax to construct representations
- Other sources and modalities of information can influence the parser at an early stage
- Syntax and semantics are both used to construct the syntactic representation in one go
- The first stage is purely autonomous, the second is semantic
16. Where is the highest load in the clause?
- All of it
- Start
- End
- Middle
17. What kind of process is parsing?
- An autonomous process, structures built on a word-by-word basis
- An incremental process; structures built on a holistic basis
- An incremental process; structures built on a word-by-word basis
- An autonomous process, structures built on a holistic basis
18. What is phrase structure grammar?
- Decoding of ambiguity
- Limited rules, infinite complexity
- Infinite rules, limited complexity
- Assigning syntactic roles
19. What two processes determine initial attachment in garden path?
- Minimal attachment and late closure
- Instrumentality and autonomy
- Minimal attachment and incrementality
- Late closure and incrementality
20. Describe a parallel autonomous parser
- All possible syntactic representations are generated and semantics used to choose the most appropriate
- A purely syntactic representation is first constructed, then checked against semantic info
- Semantic info guides the parser, ONLY semantically plausible representations generated