Neuroscience Jeopardy

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Neuro-Jeopardy!
Originally Created by Beven Livingston,
Becky Huot, Wendy Hasenkamp Graduate
Students Emory University Graduate Program in
Neuroscience Originally Edited by Jordan
Rose Outreach Coordinator Center for
Behavioral Neuroscience http//www.cbn-atl.org/e
ducation/outreach.html Please send questions or
comments to jrose14_at_learnlink.emory.edu
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Linguo-Jeopardy!
Its Too Easy. Show Me What Is That?
Just Do it! The Test!
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Its Too Easy. - 200
What are Constituents?
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Constituents are semantically coherent groupings.

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Its Too Easy. - 400

• Once a constituent, always a constituent?
• Use an example to explain Why or Why Not.

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• (8) a. The student wondered how simple
  textbooks could be obtained.
• b. The student wondered how simple
  textbooks could be.

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Show Me The Test! - 200

• Name three constituent tests discussed in this
  session.

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1. Question-Answer2. Substitution by a Pro-form
3. Movement to the Beginning
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Show Me The Test! - 400

• Use one of the three constituent tests to analyze
  the following sentence
• Eye Drops Off Shelf.

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• 1. Eye Drops Off Shelf.
• S VP
• 2. Eye Drops Off Shelf.
• S incomplete VP
• are off shelf

1. An eye falls off the shelf. 2. Eye drops
(med for eyes) fall off the she
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Show Me The Test! - 600

• Use two of the three constituent tests to analyze
  the following sentence
• Teacher Strikes Idle Kids.

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• Teacher Strikes Idle Kids.
• S/NP VP
• Teacher Strikes Idle Kids.
• S/NP VP

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• Teacher Strikes Idle Kids.
• The teacher strikes are causing idle kids.
• Teacher Strikes Idle Kids.
• The teacher strikes/hits the idle kids.

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• Question-Answer Test
• Teacher Strikes Idle Kids.
• What causes the kids to be idle? What do teacher
  strikes do?
• Teacher Strikes Idle Kids.
• Who strikes/hits the idle kids? What does the
  teacher do?

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• Substitution by a pro-form Test
• Teacher Strikes Idle Kids.
• There have been many teacher strikes. They idle
  kids. What idle kids the most? Teacher strikes
  do.
• Teacher Strikes Idle Kids.
• Someone strikes/hits idle kids. (The) teacher
  does. He/She strikes idle kids.

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• Movement Test
• Teacher Strikes Idle Kids.
• Idle kids is what teacher strikes do.
• Kids were idled by teacher strikes.
• Teacher Strikes Idle Kids.
• Strikes/hits idle kids is what the teacher does.

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What Is That? - 200

• What is the smallest constituent in the following
  sentence?
• No pain, no gain.

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• No, pain, no, and gain.

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What Is That? - 400

• What is the largest constituent in the following
  sentence?
• I really enjoy this game and I would love to play
  it again!

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I really enjoy this game and I would love to
play it again!
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Just Do It! - 200

• What are the two possible meaning for the
  following sentences? Use brackets to group the
  constituents to show those two meanings.
• They hit the man with a cane.

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• 1. They hit the man with a cane.
• 2. They hit the man with a cane.

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Just Do It! - 400

• Use brackets to group the constituents to show
  two possible meanings in the following sentence.
• I saw her duck.

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• I saw her duck.
• I saw her duck.

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