SOME AMBIGUOUS SENTENCES Bush wins on budget, but more lies ahead (part-of-speech: "lies" can be either a verb or a noun) Lung Cancer in Women Mushrooms (part-of-speech....) Eye drops off shelf (part-of-speech....) Teacher strikes idle kids (part-of-speech.....) I saw the man in the park with a telescope (PrepositionalPhrase attachment: was I using the telescope? was the man using the telescope? ... and more) Killer sentenced to die for second time in 10 years (Prepositional Phrase attachment) Survivor of Siamese twins joins parents (word-sense) Prostitutes appeal to Pope (word-sense) Two Soviet ships collides, one dies (discourse: what does "one" refer to?) Chef throws his heart into helping feed needy (idiom: need to know that "throws his heart" is an idiom) Arson suspect is held in UBC fire (very likely this sentence is missing a word at the end (e.g., "investigation"). So this ambiguity is due to an ellipsis (i.e., something missing)