[Bmack]

I was trying to do the exercise below. It ask that you draw a tree diagram with the sentence
The very small boy kissed the platypus.
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det adv adj N verb det N

The word very is an adverb followed by an adjective. Looking at the rules available
S-adv S,
VP- Adv Vp
and Vp-Vp Adv. makes it hard to draw a tree from what I understand because

“The” is a determiner and very is an adverb. The only way to get Det is through the rule NP-Det N'.

I am lost at how to construct a tree from this, the only thing I can come up with is that this is an adverb phrase...but does that even make sense?