 individual relations between
the activity and the participants in the activity, whilst you see the
pattern of all the roles in the activity. If this is what it boils down
to I don't have a problem.
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&gt; &gt;&gt; What CSP and ANW were trying to explain is that the verb
&gt; &gt;&gt; "give" and many other irreducible triads *cannot* be reduced
&gt; &gt;&gt; to conjunctions of dyads of the following form:
&gt; &gt;&gt; 
&gt; &gt;&gt;   give(x,y,z) =  part1(x,y) &amp; part2(y,z) &amp; part3(y,z).
&gt;