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In this sentence, the scopal ambiguity is created by the two quantifiers everyone and someone.

When looking at the two pictures that try to help you, you can see two possible readings:

1. For every person there is, there is at least one other person who loves him / her.

2. There is one person that is loved by everyone else.

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