A scrub jay can remember when it cached a particular piece of food in a particular place, researchers have discovered, and tend not to bother to recover a perishable treat if stored long enough to have rotted. A. tend not to bother to recover a perishable treat if B. they tend not to bother recovering a perishable treat C. tending not to bother to recover a perishable treat it D. tends not to bother recovering a perishable treat E. tends not bothering to recover a perishable treat it
只问一个语法点：E选项的it，指代scrub jay没争议
我在想后面的这个结构可否理解为recover a perishable treat （that）it stored long enough to have rotted
还原之后就是it stored a perishable treat long enough to have rotted（不知道意思层面是否有转变呢？还是单纯的wody？另外to have done这里的用法怎么理解呢？）
国外instructor的理解和我很不相同，所以求点拨
mitch： The grammatical implication of IT stored long enough to have rotted is that stored long enough to have rotted --the entire structure -- refers to IT (the scrub jay). Here, storedseems to function as a VERB, the subject of which is IT. What did IT do? It STORED. HOW did it store? It stored LONG ENOUGH TO HAVE ROTTED.
我是这样想的，it在没有划线部分已经出现过。而句子中相同代词一般指代同一N. 没有划线的部分指代的是jay，所以这里的it就有指代鸟的歧义存在。所以，你quote的那人解释才会有The grammatical implication of IT stored long enough to have rotted is that stored long enough to have rotted --the entire structure -- refers to IT (the scrub jay). IT指的JAY，而不是treat。it指代对象没有争议。
而且，你说的“我在想后面的这个结构可否理解为recover a perishable treat （that）it stored long enough to have rotted" 原句从逻辑上看应该是个定从，stored那些就是修饰成分。我觉得错误有2：1. that已经可以替代了前面想要修饰的perishable treat，所以这里应该it没有指代的对象。如果it只treat的话，则redundant了就~2. that it stored ....后面的stored确实正如你quote那人的说法，有做verb的歧义。定从么是个完整的句子成分，that从句主谓宾都有。但是是什么stored了呢？不知道啊~
这题GWD给的和prep破解给的略有不同，看上去GWD的更靠谱点。 T-3-Q14. A scrub jay can remember when it cached a particular piece of food in a particular place, researchers have discovered, and tend not to bother to recover a perishable treat if stored long enough to have rotted. A. tend not to bother to recover a perishable treat if B. they tend not to bother recovering a perishable treat C. tending not to bother recovering a perishable treat if D. tends not to bother recovering a perishable treat E. tends not bothering to recover a perishable treat if
stored long enough to have rotted 我觉得这一段是整体 就是过去分词修饰perishable 然后加to 表示目的，to have rotted的发出者还是perishable treat 这样说不知道说清楚没有 举个例子 a house decorated well to sell a good price
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