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Sample sentence:
the woman
yawned
(basic case: most frequent senses succeed.)
n
Syntax:
n
first tree works.
n
n
n
Semantics:
n
v-body &
n-person
match.
n
v-stative
never
tried.
(This is the basic case: most frequent senses succeed.)
This sentence is unambiguous syntactically.
So there’s only one part of speech combination to consider.
noun(“woman”) – verb(“yawn”)
The most common sense of yawned is v-body,
And most common sense of woman is n-person,
So they get tried first.
V-body allows n-person as a subject, so it passes constraint.
And we get the parse on the right.
