User Guide

212 SYSTRAN Desktop 7 User Guide
The choice of the appropriate meaning is performed by the software based on syntactic
consideration. For instance, the following entry defines two meanings of “use” to be
respectively used in a sentence like “He is using the tool” and “Using the tool is dangerous”.
UD Entry Example
English
French
Spanish
German
to achieve
atteindre
realizar (noun form:
realización)
erreichen (noun form:
Erreichen)
Translation Example
First Coding
Source Text (English)
English
Spanish
Target Text (Spanish)
Achieving the gender equity in
science classrooms.
He is achieving his goal.
to achieve
realizar
Realizar la equidad de género en
salas de clase de la ciencia.
Él está realizando su meta.
Enriched Coding
Achieving the gender equity in
science classrooms.
He is achieving his goal.
to achieve
realizar (noun
form:
realización)
Realización de la equidad de
género en salas de clase de la
ciencia.
Él está realizando su meta.
Syntactic Information
Syntactic information is used to specify additional syntactic properties of the entry. The effect
of this information is based on the language, and also depends on the grammatical category.
The following syntactic clues are commonly used.
Syntactic clues for verbs
transitivity/intransitivity
(transitive) : to code a verb that takes a direct object.
(intransitive): to code a verb that does not take a direct object.
(aux : word)
Indicates a word or particle that should be added to a verb.
Syntactic clues for adjective
(leftadj):
Indicates that the adjective should be to the left of the noun.
Syntactic clues for nouns
(abstract) or (concrete)
Specifies if the entry represents an abstract or concrete entity.
(countable), (uncountable)
Specifies if the entry is countable.