or the woman is wrapped in the green blanket and holding the baby.

Locally ambiguous

A locally ambiguous sentence is a sentence that contains an ambiguous phrase but has only one interpretation. The ambiguity in a locally ambiguous sentence briefly stays and is resolved, i.e., disambiguated, by the end of the sentence. Sometimes, local ambiguities can result in garden-path sentences, in which a structurally correct sentence is difficult

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