XC: Trees are easy to draw
I’ve finally completed the complex extra credit assignment that I was trying to have ready for Tuesday (you can download the PDF file).
It’s a relatively long excursion into what we need to suppose in order to draw a tree for the sentence Trees are easy to draw. I quite like it, actually—but it’s significantly more challenging (or at least more involved) than any homework assignment so far. It also is quite wide-ranging, making use of topics we’ve covered throughout the semester, from constituency tests up to phases. Honestly, if I’d written it over the summer, it would probably have been a take-home final.
I’m still debating how best to count this, and I’ll announce my decision about it in class on Tuesday. It will probably be worth more than just a single homework score, given how involved it is.
There is no due date on this problem, apart from the end of the semester.