Read this passage from martin luther king jr.'s nobel peace prize acceptance speech: i believe that wounded justice, lying prostrate on the blood-flowing streets of our nations, can be lifted from this dust of shame to reign supreme among the children of men. what comparison does king make? a. he compares children to dust. b. he compares a street to a car. c. he compares a nation to an animal. d. he compares justice to an injured person.

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).

i would need the dialogue to answer this.