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265Tabela 35. Linguistic realizations of the core FE LAW in the Portuguese corpus5.2.4. DiscussionIn this sub-chapter, we mentioned that, in most cases, a frame groups together one to sixterms and we provided the example of the [Regulations] frame that groups togetherfourteen terms, the greatest number of terms grouped together into a frame. Then, wedescribed some cases of synonymy, near synonymy and antonymy between terms that weregrouped together into the same frame. Finally, we characterized the FEs that are recurrentacross frames and explained their role in the judgments.We believe that the main reason why there is such a high number of frames thatgroup together only one term lies in the fact that we did not describe all terms of the subjectfield. As the methodology followed a bottom-up approach, terms were described first andonly then were they grouped into frames. We also decided to study 100 terms for eachlanguage only. If the number of terms described were higher, the number of framesgrouping together only one term would probably be lower. In addition, as we only analyzed