B. Parsing strategies. There are two problems. The first is getting the clauses, the second is hooking them up. Once you have a constituent going, look for content words that fit in that constituent. Overall strategy for the sentence.
First noun is agent, verb is action, second noun is patient.
Apply this model to all sentences as a first try. It gets a lot of them correct. So, you might as well make your first guess something that's usually right. The editor authors the newspaper hired liked laughed. You want authors to be a verb, but when you find out it isn't, you have to go back and recompute.