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Syntactic ambiguities (Hausarbeit Sahti)

This study aims to explore how people understand syntactically ambiguous sentences, sentences that can have multiple possible meanings depending on how they are structured.

You will be presented with ten sentences, each followed by two or more possible interpretations. Your task is to select the interpretation that seems most natural or likely to you. There are no right or wrong answers!

Your responses will remain anonymous, and the data will be used solely for my term paper. 

Thank you for participating in this survey on sentence interpretation :)


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1

The teacher discussed the student‘s problem with the principal.

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2

The man saw the woman with the telescope.

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3

The old men and women sat by the fire.

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4

The cat chased the mouse behind the couch.

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5

Sarah told her friend that she won the lottery.

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6

I saw someone texting on the bus.

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7

The kids played near the dog with a ball.

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8

Lisa saw her neighbor walking her dog.

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9

The waiter served the customer with a smile.

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10

Visiting relatives can be exhausting.

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