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219cumprir 1 ; 2) exceed 1 and violar 2 ; 3) infringe 2 and violar 2 ;4) violate 2 and violar 2 . For thisreason, it was necessary to examine if the candidate equivalents were full equivalents and ifthey were not full equivalents it was necessary to understand what differentiated the verbsin the pair. This way, the differences observed could provide an explanation on why a givenverb in one language is a partial equivalent of a verb in another language.We remind the reader that, in this research, frames were assumed to be ―interlingualrepresentations‖ that can group together not only terms in one language but also acrosslanguages (Boas 2005). For this reason, the fact that two terms in different languagesevoked the same frame was considered an indication of the presence of an equivalencerelationship that needed to be confirmed or refuted as linguistic and domain anisomorphismmay involve interlingual differences.In order to assign the equivalents, we compared the terms in the two languages bytaking into account the criteria set out below.1. The way the verbs evoke the frame. Here, we want to understand if the verbshad the same profiles. If verbs in one language corresponded to the opposites ofverbs in another language, they could profile the frame in a negative or positiveway. In this case, only candidate equivalents that profiled one of thesepossibilities were retained. For example, exceed 1 , comply 1 , cumprir 1 , infringe 2 ,violar 2 and violate 2 were attributed the same frame label, i.e. [Compliance](Table 21). These verbs evoke a conceptual scenario, in which somebody orsomebody‘s behaviour does or does not comply with the law. Therefore, theycan be split into two groups because there are two different kinds of profiles: theverbs that refer to the action of complying with the law (comply 1 , cumprir 1 ) andthe verbs that refer to the action of not complying with the law (exceed 1 ,infringe 2 , violar 2 and violate 2 ). The following criteria 2, 3 and 4 were applied for