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  <Title>SENTENCE ADVERB I ALS IN A SYSTEM OF QUEST I ON ANSWER I NG W I THOUT A PREARRANGED DATA BASE</Title>
  <Section position="7" start_page="72" end_page="72" type="concl">
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7. Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In the present paer we have described the initial stage of the work on the integration of about three hundred adverbial expressions (such as surprisingly, probably, briefly, ~ ~ at least L for exam p..l_9.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> etc., specifying, in a broad sense of the word, how the focus, or the new information of a sentence, holds) into the analysis and synthesis of sentences within a system of automatic question-answering without a prearranged data base (TIBAQ), connected with the Functional Generative Description of language.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> In particular, we have argued that the expressions inquesion occupy, in the primary case, the focus-initial position and that their scope extends over the rest of the focus, or the new information, of a sentence, their behaviour being economically accountable for in terms of a common type of adverbial complementat ion (Complement at ion of Attitude) as embodying the open-ended character of the class of these expressions. On the surface, these expressions exhibit sur face movement t o scope- amb i gtlou 8 positions (typically, to the sentence-initial or to the preverbal position), which makes it possible to propose several general strategies for the analysis of these expressions as concerns their scope.</Paragraph>
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