John will see Mary.
Relax!                                  # imperative
Mary resigned it.                       # *resign* not a transitive verb
Mary will relax.                        # modal
that Mary will relax                    # subordinate clause structure
Mary relaxed it.                        # violation of Theta criterion
We will buy.                            # violation of Theta criterion
We will buy a book.                     # transitive
We will buy you a book.                 # ditransitive
John will give Mary a book.
John gave a book to Mary.
John gave a book.
Mary had a little boy.                  # have; adjective
The little lucky boy was lucky.         # adjectives
We saw that Mary did it.
# interactive user input required for the following items
John gave Mary a book of poems          # of-complement
a tall student of Physics with long hair from London   # adjunct cues
a tall student of Physics (Nbar,?PP) with long hair (Nbar,?PP) from London
we saw the boy with the telescope.              # PP goes where?
we saw the boy (Nbar,?PP) with the telescope.   # to Nbar
we saw the boy (Vbar,?PP) with the telescope.   # to Vbar
we bought a book of poems (Nbar,?PP) about London (Nbar,?PP) in the nineties
we bought a book of poems (Nbar,?PP) about London (Vbar,?PP) in the nineties
John's uncle's sister's niece was lucky         # complex NP
# backtracking
The big sleep.                                  # ambiguity + backtracking
Colourless green ideas sleep furiously.         # Chomsky 1957
The mome raths outgrabe.                        # Lewis Carroll
The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy cow.

We want him.
We want him to do it                      # Exceptional case marking
We want to do it.                         # control
We promised to relax.                     # subject control
We promised you to relax.                 # subject control
We were lucky to resign.                  # lucky + control
We persuaded John to resign.              # object control
We wondered whether to resign.            # whether=C
What did you promise to do?               # cyclic move
What did you promise that you would do?
we persuaded John to relax

John seemed to relax.                             # raising
Did we seem to be lucky?                          # raising
Mary is seen.                                     # passives
Mary was seen.
Mary will be seen.
Mary has been seen.
Mary will have been seen.
Who has been seen?

Who will see John?                                # wh-move
Whom will John see?
Which book will you buy Mary?                     # which
Which book will John give to Mary?
When did we see John?                             # when
When will John buy the book?
Where has Mary been seen?
Who saw what?
What did he talk about?                           # "prep stranding"
About what did he talk?                           # "pied piping"
Which men (Nbar,?PP) in green coats has Mary been seeing?
Was the man (Nbar,?PP) in the green coat seen (Vbar,?PP) by John?

The man (Nbar,?CP) who saw John.                  # rel. clauses
We saw the boy who did it.
The boy who saw John did it.
We know the boy that did it.

We see Mary.                                      # tenses
We saw Mary.
We have seen Mary.
We had seen Mary.
We did see Mary.
We will see Mary.
We will have seen Mary.
We are seeing Mary.
We were seeing Mary.
We have been seeing Mary.
We will have been seeing Mary.
John has been seeing Mary.
He was a boy.
We did it.
We will be doing it.
Will we be doing it?
Boys will be boys.
John was a promising boy
John was promising Mary to resign.

