Appendices
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[Without answers]
6.8 Problems
Identify the semantic role of each noun phrase in bold
in the following sentences.
Choose from the following set:
AGENT, PATIENT, EXPERIENCER, THEME,
RECIPIENT, SOURCE, GOAL, PATH, INSTRUMENT,
LOCATION, TIME, CAUSER, BENEFICIARY.
If you're not sure, you can say that the role is a blend of two roles.
Example:
The calendar fell off the wall.
the calendar: PATIENT,
the wall: SOURCE.
- She wants the job.
EXP, THM
- He got fired.
PAT
- She tickled him with a feather.
AGT, PAT, INS
- The rock was rolling down the mountain.
PAT, PTH
- I have forgotten your name.
EXP, THM
- You put chile in this dish? I don't taste it.
AGT, PAT, GOL, EXP, THM
- That cheese stinks.
THM
- A cache of weapons was seized by the FBI
on Thursday.
PAT, AGT, TIM
- He was awarded one thousand dollars.
REC, PAT
- She always amazes me.
THM, EXP
- He loaded hay on the truck.
AGT, PAT, GOL
- Bill borrowed a book from Sarah,
and he returned it to her right away.
AGT/REC, PAT, SRC, AGT/SRC, PAT, REC
- He caught a cold.
PAT, THM
- She said only three words.
AGT, PAT
- She hung the painting on the wall for him.
AGT, PAT, GOL, BEN
- She got her hair cut at Mabel's.
CSR, PAT, LOC
- Yikes! I feel something crawling up my back.
EXP, THM
For each sentence or group of sentences for a given verb (shown in bold), write
the mapping(s) of syntactic and semantic roles.
Example:
- Clark lent a book to Lois.
- Clark lent Lois a book.
lend
- subject: AGENT/SOURCE, direct object: PATIENT, object of to: RECIPIENT
- subject: AGENT/SOURCE, direct object: PATIENT, indirect object: RECIPIENT
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Clark disgusts Lois.
disgust
subject: THEME, direct object: EXPERIENCER
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Clark admires Lois.
admire
subject: EXPERIENCER, direct object: THEME
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Clark emailed Lois.
email
subject: AGENT, SOURCE; direct object: RECIPIENT
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- The wood burned.
- Jimmy burned the wood.
burn
- subject: PATIENT
- subject: AGENT, direct object: PATIENT
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- This shirt smells.
- I smell something weird. (I wonder what it is.)
- Would you please smell this milk? (I think it might be bad.)
smell
- subject: THEME
- subject: EXPERIENCER, direct object: THEME
- subject: AGENT, direct object: THEME
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Japanese.
Recall from the book (1) that in Japanese the verb comes last in the
sentence, (2) that the NOMINATIVE case marker ga marks the
subject in a Japanese sentence, and (3) that Japanese has postpositions
instead of prepositions.
Clark
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ni
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sono
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hon
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ga
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wakaru
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Clark
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to
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that
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book
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NOMINATIVE
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understand:PRESENT
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'Clark understands that book.'
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wakaru
subject: THEME, object of ni: EXPERIENCER
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