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2013 1 Syntactic Ambiguity Trees

This document provides an exercise on structural ambiguity. It contains 3 ambiguous sentences and asks the reader to explain the two different meanings of each sentence and draw tree structures to illustrate the structural ambiguity and identify each structure with its associated meaning.

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2013 1 Syntactic Ambiguity Trees

This document provides an exercise on structural ambiguity. It contains 3 ambiguous sentences and asks the reader to explain the two different meanings of each sentence and draw tree structures to illustrate the structural ambiguity and identify each structure with its associated meaning.

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Structural Ambiguity Exercise

LING 222 Spring 2013


Hedberg

I. Explain the two different meanings associated with each of the


following three sentences.

II. Draw tree structures that explain the ambiguity structurally and
identify each with its meaning.

1. Sam wears a bright yellow shirt.

2. Mary works out in the background.

3. Jack decided on the boat.


The shirt has a bright yellow color.

The shirt is bright and the shirt is yellow.


Mary exercises in the background.

Mary works while she is out in the backyard.


Jack decided to choose the boat.

Jack made a decision while he was on the boat.

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