From rlpowell@csclub.uwaterloo.ca Thu Aug 03 10:38:37 2000 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28676 invoked from network); 3 Aug 2000 17:36:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m3.onelist.org with QMQP; 3 Aug 2000 17:36:57 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca) (129.97.134.11) by mta1 with SMTP; 3 Aug 2000 17:36:56 -0000 Received: from calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id NAA21721 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2000 13:38:29 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200008031738.NAA21721@calum.csclub.uwaterloo.ca> To: "lojban@onelist.com" Subject: Re: [lojban] Some ambiguous sentences In-Reply-To: Message from John Cowan of "Thu, 03 Aug 2000 11:33:42 EDT." <398990D6.388C2415@reutershealth.com> Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 13:38:29 -0400 X-eGroups-From: Robin Lee Powell From: Robin Lee Powell John Cowan writes: >Here are a few pairs of sentences: individually not ambiguous to human beings, >but having the same formal English parses. Source: >http://www.cyc.com/products2.html > > Fred saw the plane flying over Zurich. > Fred saw the mountains flying over Zurich. Perhaps I read too much science fiction, but without the 'while' in the second sentence, I consistently parse it as being about flying mountains. -Robin -- http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rlpowell/ BTW, I'm male, honest. ... stripped of our uniqueness as human beings by Darwin, exposed to our own inadequacies by Freud, ... Power -- "the ability to bring about our desires" -- is all that we have left. --- Michael Korda, _Power!_