Read this poem:

the lion's roar
scared me to the core,
but the lamb's bleat
sounded quite sweet.

what is the poem's rhyme scheme?

a.
abab

b.
aabb

c.
abcb

d.
abba

for example: in, he, a,from

the sentence does not violate the phrase structure second rule (introduced by noam chomsky) because noun phrases consist of a determiner such as a, the or every, and a noun. in the sentence, the noun phrase the cake includes a determiner (the) and a noun (cake).

on the other hand, the first rule indicates that a sentence encloses a noun phrase, followed by a verb phrase. the example sentence can be analysed as follows:

john (n) + ate (v) + the (det) + cake (n).