{"id":63249,"date":"2024-03-28T14:29:35","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T19:29:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=63249"},"modified":"2024-03-28T14:34:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T19:34:05","slug":"pp-attachment-ambiguity-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/?p=63249","title":{"rendered":"PP attachment ambiguity of the day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chrisma Madarang, \"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/politics\/politics-news\/matt-schlapp-cpac-sexual-assault-settlement-1234995670\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man Accusing CPAC Chair Matt Schlapp of Sexual Assault Was Paid $480,000: Report<\/a>\", <em>Rolling Stone<\/em> 3\/27\/2024:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Huffman claimed Mrs. Schlapp attempted to \u201cimpugn\u201d his character in her response to the allegations against her husband, calling him a \u201ctroubled individual,\u201d and alleged he had been dismissed from the campaign after lying on his resume in a group chat with neighbors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>That sentence ends with a sentence \"he had been dismissed\" embedded as the complement of the verb \"alleged\", followed by five consecutive prepositional phrases<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>from the campaign<\/li>\n<li>after lying<\/li>\n<li>on his resume<\/li>\n<li>in a group chat<\/li>\n<li>with neighbors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A simplified version of the (I think) correct tree structure for those final 19 words is something like this:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/HuffmanAllegationTree0.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Click to embiggen\" src=\"http:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/myl\/HuffmanAllegationTree0.png\" width=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But there are many alternative parses, including the tangled web at the end of the first garden path I took, which featured the idea that Huffman lied on his resume in a group chat with neighbors. Which was hard to make sense of, since such chats don't involve the exchange of resumes, at least in any neighborhood I've ever lived in.<\/p>\n<p>I leave it as an exercise for the reader to see what part of the full sentence your favorite LLM thinks that \"in a group chat with the neighbors\" modifies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chrisma Madarang, \"Man Accusing CPAC Chair Matt Schlapp of Sexual Assault Was Paid $480,000: Report\", Rolling Stone 3\/27\/2024: Huffman claimed Mrs. Schlapp attempted to \u201cimpugn\u201d his character in her response to the allegations against her husband, calling him a \u201ctroubled individual,\u201d and alleged he had been dismissed from the campaign after lying on his resume [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syntax"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63249"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63257,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63249\/revisions\/63257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu\/nll\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}