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Only one of the following sentences cannot be disambiguated to parse as a grammatical, meaningful sentence in English, using standard grammatical rules. Which one is the non-grammatical sentence?
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D) The horse raced past the barn fell jumped.
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The sentence 'The horse raced past the barn fell jumped' is ungrammatical because it contains too many verbs. The correct garden-path structure would be 'The horse raced past the barn fell' (one verb too many). The other options are valid grammatical sentences.