Assignment 3 sample solutions
There are no full solutions for this assignment. You can download
the function evaluate-distinctions together with the code I used in
my evaluation lisp3eval.tgz .
For minipar evaluation, below is a list of problems originally
enumerated by prof. Schubert as he was testing it
topicalization isn't handled
nominalized VPs and clauses aren't handled.
conjunctions are swallowed
for VPs with auxiliaries, the main verb features are propagated
upward, instead of the head verb features.
complements are almost always misclassified as adjuncts, except
for NP objects and that-clause objects. In particular PPs and
even VP complements seem to be uniformly treated as adjuncts.
PP and ADVL gaps aren't recognized, even in wh-questions. In fact
only NP gaps seem to be recognized.
right-node raising isn't handled
Here's a sample writeup which got the full grade. It's not the longest
one I received, and you will notice that it does not enumerate all
the same problems, but I felt it satisfied several important points: it
demonstrated that the student tried to parse the majority of
constructs handled in class notes, it presented the conclusions
clearly, and it gave the results in easy to read format: minipar.txt .