Suppose you were writing a program that was designed to check both the grammar o

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Suppose you were writing a program that was designed to check both the grammar of English sentences and whether the sentences were meaningful. Just like statements of programming languages can be syntactically correct but have static semantic errors, so can English sentences. As an example consider the sentence: The house ate the apple. In this case, the problem lies with an attribute of the noun and verb. The attribute might be characterized as animate. To eat is an animate verb, but house is not an animate object. Give another example of an English sentence that is grammatically correct but not meaningful. What attributes of the words are responsible for that fact that the sentence is not meaningful? Speculate on how many different attributes one might have to consider to do an effective job of evaluating whether an English sentence was meaningful.

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While semantic roles describe

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