Garden-path parsing follows simplest-first attachment

Correct: B — A Minimal Attachment heuristic that prefers the simplest syntactic structure

Frazier's garden-path model claims the parser commits incrementally to the syntactically simplest structure (Minimal Attachment, Late Closure) and only revises if forced. "The horse raced past the barn fell" is grammatical only if "raced past the barn" is read as a reduced relative clause — but the Minimal-Attachment parse treats "raced" as the main verb. Eye-movement records show readers regress to the disambiguating "fell," confirming reanalysis. Competing constraint-based models (MacDonald, Tanenhaus) treat ambiguity resolution as gradient and frequency-driven rather than serial.