But the adjectives I have mentioned would certainly apply to the naked bike riders!
Scope ambiguity occurs when it is unclear how much of the sentence an adjective, verb, or adverb applies to.
The important attributes of that particular space are defined by context and the adjectives applied to it.
All the adjectives that fit an artist apply to Mr. Jones.
One common method is for scientists to ask their subjects how well certain adjectives apply to themselves (or to people they know well).
As I remember, the three adjectives applied to me most consistently throughout my early childhood were 'clever', 'good', and 'healthy'.
The same adjectives which had applied to everything else applied to the flat.
The same adjectives and nouns apply to both, but the same words end up not meaning the same things.
Those same adjectives apply to the thin, cigarette-shape chicken rolls.
It can't be said that these adjectives don't sometimes apply.