> 笑顔が無邪気でかわいい子

Hi. Does this clause here mean a child with an innocent and cute smile or a
cute child with an innocent smile? Thank you
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grammar ambiguous-relative-clauses
Which subject does かわいい describe in this example?
This is ambiguous and can be taken both ways. I personally feel "a child with
an innocent and cute smile" is slightly more likely because you can say 笑顔が無邪気
**な** かわいい子 to unambiguously mean "a cute child with an innocent smile".
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無邪気 can be an adjective or noun. Particle で in position after a noun indicates
an uncontrollable reason. In this case, this sentence means "a child is cute
because of an innocent smile" and you can replace "で" with "から".
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