Identify the semantic role

Exercise

You will be given some sentences where two or three noun phrases are marked off with square brackets. For each sentence:

• Identify the semantic roles of the noun phrases (agent, patient or recipient).
• Write a different sentence to describe the same situation, where the same roles are expressed in different ways.

Example:

• [The people we were staying with] cooked [us] [a traditional Normandy dinner]. _{[S1A-009 #125, adapted]}

Roles:

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