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		lilyball on May 7, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: NASA's Radar Found 4 Men Trapped in Rubble in Nepa... That's not the ambiguity. The ambiguity is whether the Radar found them by their heartbeats, or whether they were trapped by their heartbeats.

sliverstorm on May 7, 2015 [–]

Or did the radar find the men, while trapped in the rubble by the men's heartbeats?

lilyball on May 7, 2015 | [–]

That doesn't work because "found 4 men" is not a modifier on "NASA's Radar". If it said "NASA's Radar Found By 4 Men Trapped In Rubble" then that would work.

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