Emilka's school assignment (26.2.2019)

Eecently I had a winter break for two weeks. It was fantastic. I was at the cinema or shopping. I also often met with friends. The best day was Tuesday in the second week of the winter break.
On this day I woke up, ate breakfast and at 11 am I went on skates. I was at the ice rink with my brother Szymon, cousins and their parents, that is, my uncle. We were there for two hours. Then we wanted to go a bowling, but everywhere was occupied, so we went to eat a pizza. We bought three small and one big pizzas. It was delicious.
When we finished eating, everyone started to talk. Then we went home.
At home I with Szymon were playing at many games.
This day was amazing and funny.

Assignment #13

1. Listen to the story A talking frog on YouTube which you will find there. Produce the transcript of the story and place it as a comment to this assignment. Practice the reading of the story from the transcript. If not sure how to pronounce a particular word, play the story again and notice how the word is pronounced. I expect you to read the story to me without my corrections.
2. Continue with the English Proficiency Test. Don't forget taking notes of your answers. Put the answers as a comment to this assignment.
3. Backlog from Assignment #12: Study the pictures about the different types of pronouns and their functions.
4. Study the final parse tree for the sentence which we discussed during our last lesson. This is the last figure in Parse trees for Assignment #12.
5. Parse the following sentence:

   The apples which you see on the table are from my garden..

Next to each node with more than one child write the number of the rule which you used to create the node. Working on the parse, make sure to follow the advice in Parsing sentences using the phrase-structure grammar.

Tasks #4 and #5 are due by Sunday, the remaining ones a day after.

Parse trees for Assignment #12

Sentence to parse:

My next essay will be about a picture which I will be selecting from a big album.

The first failed attempt.

After the suggestion to replace the compound sentence by two simple sentences which would convey the same meaning:

First sentence.

Second sentence.

The above is incorrect, because the NP from the previous sentence, namely "a picture", is missing. It should be:

I will be selecting a picture from a big album.

The second failed attempt.

In the following picture the incorrect fragments have been enclosed in numbered boxes. The comments below correspond to these boxes:

1. There is no rule: VP --> NP PP
2. The correct parse tree should have only one root, in this case it should be S.
3. There is no rule: VP --> VP NP
4. There is no rule: NP --> PP
5. The movement is wrong: NP cannot undergo a change to VP during the movement.

Incorrect fragments are enclosed in boxes.

Correct parse:

The number in red next to a tree node is the number of the rule applied to create this node. For example, 6 corresponds to the rule: VP --> (Aux) (Aux) V ( [ NP PP ] ).

The above sentence could be parsed in other ways as well, but considering the rules introduced so far (shown below), is seems to be the only one possible.

Assignment #12

1. Re-work the description of the picture from Assignment #11 applying the method presented in part "Writing an essay" in Procedures.
2. Study the pictures about the different types of pronouns and their functions.
3. Take the English Proficiency Test. Before starting, translate the description of the test using Google so that you understand how the test works.
4. Parse the following sentence:

   My next essay will be about a picture which I will be selecting from a big album.

using only the Phrase-structure grammar rules. Send me the diagram. Make sure to use a thick pen.

Task #4 is due by Sunday. The remaining ones by Monday.

Assignment #11

Because of the winter break there was no home work for this lesson. However, Emilka decided on her own to work on a description of the following photo:

Polish version

Na zdjęciu widzę kobietę, stojącą na górze i patrzącą się na piękny, rozległy krajobraz.

Ubrana jest w luźne,niebieskie wzorzyste spodnie i brązowy, obcisły top. Ma ona na głowie pomarańczowy turban. Nie ma butów, ani biżuterii. Trzyma się za spodnie. Jest wysoka i posiada ciemną karnację. Jest w wieku około 23 lat. Wydaje się spokojna i szczęśliwa. 

Na drugim planie widzę duży, samotny głaz, który stoi w centrum ogromnej, zielonej dżungli. W dali widzę wysokie góry. może tam jest wioska kobiety, do której zaraz pójdzie. Możemy również zobaczyć, że za głazem jest mały fragment jeziora.

Niebo na obrazku jest kolorowe. Ma ono barwę niebieska i delikatnie pomarańczową, więc domyślam się, że jest to zachód słońca.

Na niebie jest tylko jedna chmura.

Zdjęcie jest bardzo przyjemne i uspokajające.

English translation

On a photo I can see a woman, who stands on a mountain, and she looks at a beautiful vast view.

She is wearing in a loose, blue patterned trousers and a brown tight top. She has got orange turban on her head. The woman hasn't got shoes and a jewelry. She holds her pants.

The woman is toll, and she has got a dark skinned. She is in her mid 23 years old. She seems to be calm and happy.

On the background I can see a big, lonely stone which is stand in a middle of huge, green jungle. I, the distance I can see high mountains. Maybe there is a village of a woman she will go to.

We can also see that there is a small fragment of the lake behind the rock.

A sky on the photo is colorful. It is blue and slightly orange, so I guess it's a sunset. On the sky is only one cloud.

The photo is very nice and reassuring.

Assignment #10

1. Correct the parse tree for the sentence from the previous assignment following the discussion we have had on it during our last lesson. Post the photo of the tree on WhatsApp.
2. Write a description of the picture of your choice:

Describe it first in Polish so that your imagination wouldn't be restricted by the language. Only then translate it into Polish applying the approach we have discussed during our previous two lessons. The English version should have at least 150 words. Insert both versions as comments to this assignment. 

Task #1 is due by Sunday, task #2 by Monday.

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