8.4 Exercises

Exercise  8.1 Here’s our basic DCG:

   s  -->  np,vp.
   
   np  -->  det,n.
   
   vp  -->  v,np.
   vp  -->  v.
   
   det  -->  [the].
   det  -->  [a].
   
   n  -->  [woman].
   n  -->  [man].
   n  -->  [apple].
   n  -->  [pear].
   
   v  -->  [eats].

Suppose we add the noun “men” (which is plural) and the verb “know”. Then we would want a DCG which says that “The men eat” is ok, “The man eats” is ok, “The men eats” is not ok, and “The man eat” is not ok. Change the DCG so that it correctly handles these sentences. Use an extra argument to cope with the singular/plural distinction.

Exercise  8.2 In the text, we only gave examples of DCG rules with one extra argument, but in fact you can add as many extra arguments as you like. Here’s a DCG rule with three extra arguments:

   kanga(V,R,Q)  -->  roo(V,R),jumps(Q,Q),{marsupial(V,R,Q)}.

Translate it into the form Prolog uses.

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