Consider the grammar with non-terminals N = {S,C,S1 },terminals T={a,b,i,t,e}, with S as the start symbol, and the following set of rules:
S --> iCtSS1|a S1 --> eS|ϵ C --> b
The grammar is NOT LL(1) because:
(A)
it is left recursive
(B)
it is right recursive
(C)
it is ambiguous
(D)
It is not context-free.
Answer: (C)
Explanation:
A LL(1) grammar doesn\’t give to multiple entries in a single cell of its parsing table. It has only single entry in a single cell, hence it should be unambiguous.
Option A is wrong. Grammar is not left recursive. For a grammar to be left recursive a production should be of form A->Ab, where A is a single Non-Terminal and b is any string of grammar symbols.
Option B is wrong. Because a right recursive grammar has nothing to do with LL(1).
Option D is wrong. Because the given grammar is clearly a Context Free Grammar. A grammar is CFG if it has productions of the form A->(V∪ T)* , where A is a single non-terminal and V is a set of Non-terminals and T is a set of Terminals.
Hence Option C should be the correct one. i.e. the grammar is ambiguous.
But let\’s see how the grammar is ambiguous.
If the grammar is ambiguous then it should give multiple entry in a cell while making its parsing table. And Parse table is made with the aid of two functions : FIRST and FOLLOW.
A parsing table of a grammar will not have multiple entries in a cell( i.e. will be a LL(1) grammar) if and only if the following conditions hold for each production of the form A->α|β 1) FIRST(α) ∩ FIRST(β) = Φ 2) if FIRST(α) contains \’ ε \’ then FIRST(α) ∩ FOLLOW (A) = Φ and vice-versa.
Now,
- For the production , S->iCtSS1|a, rule 1 is satisfied, because FIRST(iCtSS1) ∩ FIRST(a) = {i} ∩ {a} = Φ
- For the production, S1->eS|ε, rule 1 is satisfied, as FIRST(eS) ∩ FIRST(ε) = {e} ∩ {ε} = Φ . But here due to \’ε\’ in FIRST, we have to check for rule 2. FIRST(eS) ∩ FOLLOW(S1) = {e} ∩ {e, $} ≠ Φ . Hence rule 2 fails in this production rule. Therefore there will be multiple entries in the parsing table, hence the grammar is ambiguous and not LL(1).
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