Which outcome occurs when a context-free grammar (CFG) is used to define a formal language with inherently ambiguous structures?

💡 Explanation

Multiple parse trees become possible because ambiguity in a CFG means the same string can be derived via different production rules using distinct parse trees; therefore, the grammar is not uniquely interpretable, rather than ensuring a single deterministic parse.

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