Basic Units of Syntactic Analysis

Identify Structural Ambiguities

The following sentences are structurally ambiguous. Insert brackets to disambiguate them.

Example:

• Sentence: Pat saw the man with a telescope.
• Your answer:
  Pat saw [the [man with a telescope] ]
  Pat [ [saw the man] with a telescope]

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2. (from Kim and Sells 2008) We need more intelligent leaders.

3. I like wine and cheese from France.

4. Chris wrote to her friends from Italy.