{"id":44741074,"user":"abnercoimbre","time":1753921389,"time_ago":"6 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

Tell more about garden paths in this context, I'm curious!","comments":[{"id":44741114,"user":"xoxxala","time":1753921713,"time_ago":"6 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

I had no idea what a garden path sentence was, too, but wiki to the rescue:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence","comments":[{"id":44741404,"user":"oatsandsugar","time":1753924599,"time_ago":"6 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

The old man the boat","comments":[{"id":44741451,"user":"sshine","time":1753925115,"time_ago":"6 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

Time flies like an arrow,

fruit flies like a banana.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":2,"url":"item?id=44741451"},{"id":44742331,"user":"chutes","time":1753936471,"time_ago":"6 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

The horse raced past the barn fell","comments":[{"id":44743757,"user":"alt227","time":1753952492,"time_ago":"6 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

I still have never managed to understand that one properly","comments":[{"id":44743841,"user":"cpach","time":1753953541,"time_ago":"6 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

I think it shall be interpreted like this: The creature who fell was the horse (that was previously raced past the barn). I.e. it was not the barn that fell.","comments":[{"id":44743900,"user":"alt227","time":1753954171,"time_ago":"6 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

Thankyou that makes sense!

So in reality this is just an incorrect sentence.\nIt should be written as

"The horse that raced past the barn fell"","comments":[{"id":44744125,"user":"sshine","time":1753956724,"time_ago":"6 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

It should be.

But it’s not incorrect to say

  The tree grown tall is the one I planted\n\n  The horse raced past had somewhere to go\n

\nBut when you don’t end the subject syntagma in an obvious way, you make it difficult to read.

It’s easier to read

  The tree grown tall last year withered\n

\nbecause grown has a distinct past particle form. The past particle of raced is raced, which means you need more lookahead to determine its role in the sentence.

You can artificially push out the point at which the sentence disambiguates between whether the word is past tense or past particle, and make it seem that it’s probably past tense until it can’t be.

You could say that the sentence is LL(k) for an unintuitively high k.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":6,"url":"item?id=44744125"},{"id":44744053,"user":"cpach","time":1753955919,"time_ago":"6 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

It’s ambigous, but is it incorrect?","comments":[{"id":44744106,"user":"alt227","time":1753956533,"time_ago":"6 months ago","type":"comment","content":"

If language is constantly changing due to how people use it rather than sticking to a strict set of rules, then in my opinion gramatically correct sentences should always be explicit and never ambiguous.","comments":[],"comments_count":0,"level":7,"url":"item?id=44744106"}],"comments_count":1,"level":6,"url":"item?id=44744053"}],"comments_count":3,"level":5,"url":"item?id=44743900"}],"comments_count":4,"level":4,"url":"item?id=44743841"}],"comments_count":5,"level":3,"url":"item?id=44743757"}],"comments_count":6,"level":2,"url":"item?id=44742331"}],"comments_count":8,"level":1,"url":"item?id=44741404"}],"comments_count":9,"level":0,"url":"item?id=44741114"}],"comments_count":10,"url":"item?id=44741074"}

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