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Semantics » Exercises » Research Exercise: Establish a lexical field

Research exercise: Establish a lexical field

With the help of the online lexical database WordNet, establish the lexical field for verbs relating to different ways of human locomotion.

Is it possible to arrange these terms in a hierarchical way?

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