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Draw S-structure trees for the following sentences; you do not need to include D-structure or intermediary trees

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Draw S-structure trees for the following sentences; you do not need to include D-structure or intermediary trees. Show all the required movements with arrows and indexed traces. Show case checking too. You may triangle DPs. Here are the following features to put on your trees, as needed: +/-Q on C; +/-inf on T; Case features on DPs, T, Vs and Ps. Form features [e.g., FORM participle] or Aux features are not necessary. 

(1) Were slippers being bought? 

(2) Dara appears to have bought slippers. 
(Note: Dara is the external argument of buy, not appear.) 

(3) Does Dara appear to not have bought slippers? 

(4) The kids were all likely to have been kissed by the puppies.