== ParGram Parallel Corpus
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= Basic sentence types 

- Declaratives

1. The driver starts the tractor.
2. The tractor is red.

- Interrogatives

3. What did the farmer see?
4. Did the farmer sell his tractor?

- Imperatives

5. Push the button.
6. Don't push the button.

- Transitivity (7. Di; 8. Trans; 9. Intrans)

7. The farmer gave his neighbour an old tractor.
8. The farmer cut the tree down.
9. The farmer groaned. (i.e. not a quotative: *groaned I'm poor old man)

- Passives and traditional voice -> also see Reflexives

10. My neighbour was given an old tractor by the farmer.
11. The tree was cut down yesterday.
12. The tree had been cut down. (i.e. obviously because it's not there)
13. The tractor starts with a shudder.

- Tracy's favourite

14. The tractor appeared.

= Embedded clauses

- Subcategorised declaratives

15. The boy knows (that) the tractor is red.
16. The child thinks he started the tractor.

- Subcategorised interrogatives

17. The farmer knows who started the tractor.
18. The child wondered whether the button had been pushed.

- Relative clauses and free relatives

19. The tractor that the farmer bought is red.
20. The man who bought the tractor left.
21. The store the farmer bought the tractor from closed.
22. Whoever bought this tractor is a lucky person.

= Causative/Permissive

23. The farmer made his son clean the tractor. 
24. The farmer made his son leave.
25. The farmer made her son buy the tractor. 
26. The farmer let her son buy the tractor.

= Benefactive/Dative Alternation

27. The farmer bought his son a tractor.
28. The woman bought the tractor for her husband.

= Reflexive/Reciprocal

29. The lovers danced until dawn.   (i.e. with each other)
30. The boy bathed in the river.   (i.e. himself)
31. The teacher read to himself aloud.
32. The brothers bought the tractor for each other.

= Copula, and non-verbal PREDs

33. My sister is a great teacher.
34. The child is in the house.
35. The children are happy.

= Expletive pronouns

36. It is raining.
37. There is a problem with the tractor.

= NN compounds

- Productive

38. The book cover depicted a tractor.

- Lexicalised

39. Let's get ice-cream.

- Adj modifying N2 (or N1+N2)

40. The boy swept up the broken wine bottle.

- Adj modifying N2

41. The red wine bottle broke.

= Adjectives

- Stacked adjectives

42. There are great green globs of greasy grimy gopher guts.

- Arguments of an adjective

43. They are proud of their daughter.

- Comparative

44. My tractor is faster than your sports car.

- Superlative

45. My tractor is the fastest vehicle in the county.

- Deverbal

46. The barking dog woke the neighbours.
47. The tea drinking woman admired her new purchase from eBay. (No, they are not sponsoring us!)

= XCOMPS

48. The farmer wants to buy a tractor.
49. The farmer's daughter promised to repair the tractor.
50. The farmer persuaded his wife to buy a new tractor.

== TO DO:

- Coordination

  Some suggestions:

  The farmer started the tractor and drove off.
  The farmer and his wife bought a new tractor.
  The farmer grows carrots, but she doesn't grow celery.

  Also think about coordination of AdjP, A, N, V

- Pronouns
- More more more

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