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Figure 3. Term entry for volcano in EcoLexicon.
As shown, volcano is a main term in English corresponding to a
common noun. A shortened version of the phraseological section shows
that the nuclear meaning most commonly conveyed by volcano is that of
MOVEMENT (upper case), more specifically, that of to cause motion (lower
case). The verbs (hyperlinks) in this dimension include belch, blast, blow
out, bubble, eject, emit, erupt, expel, fume, loft, release, spew, spill and
spit. By clicking on each verb, the user accesses various usage examples.
For example, as shown in Figure 4, when clicking on spit, four contexts
extracted from our corpus pop up.
Figure 4. Contextual information of the verb spit in EcoLexicon
The user also has access to the complete phraseological information by
means of the hyperlink Phraseological entry at the bottom of term entries