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I spent too much time trying to parse the meaning of this headline. I wish HN would train a regressor for the difficulty in understanding a headline's meaning,
by bitshiftfaced 3y ago
I spent too much time trying to parse the meaning of this headline. I wish HN would train a regressor for the difficulty in understanding a headline's meaning, and then automatically restrict them past some threshold.
- dylan604 3y agorelease ^that judge Is it really that difficult?
- mandmandam 3y agoIt is, yeah.
- londonReed 3y agoNo, not really.
- jcranmer 3y agoIt is a noun phrase (which means there's no main predicate verb) where 4 words in the middle could be read as verbs. So yes, it can actually take a few tries to parse the headline correctly.
- kens 3y agoWhat is the correct parsing of the headline? At first I figured it was a regular garden-path sentence [1] but after multiple readings I still can't figure it out. [1] A garden-path sentence is one where you find at the end that the expected parsing is wrong. e.g. "The old man the boat" or "The horse raced past the barn fell". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garden-path_sentence
- branweb 3y agoNew evidence was released in the DOJ vs Google case. The judge for the case called this evidence "embarrassing" to Google. It's a bad headline. There's no a complete sentence here. "DOJ vs. Google evidence release" is a noun phrase ("release" here is used as a noun), modified by the clause "that judge calls embarrassing exhibit". In that clause, "judge" is the subject, "calls" is the verb, "that" is the direct object, and "embarrassing exhibit" is an object compliment, which refers to the same thing as "that". So basically we just have a big noun phrase.