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  <Lexicon id="oewn" label="Open English Wordnet" language="en" email="english-wordnet@googlegroups.com" license="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0" version="2024" url="https://github.com/globalwordnet/english-wordnet">
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-begin-v">
      <Lemma writtenForm="begin" partOfSpeech="v">
        <Pronunciation>bɪˈɡɪn</Pronunciation>
      </Lemma>
      <Form writtenForm="began"/>
      <Form writtenForm="beginning"/>
      <Form writtenForm="begun"/>
      <Sense id="oewn-begin-v-02606945-v" synset="oewn-02606945-v" dc:identifier="begin%2:41:04::"/>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <LexicalEntry id="oewn-start-v">
      <Lemma writtenForm="start" partOfSpeech="v"/>
      <Sense id="oewn-start-v-02606945-v" synset="oewn-02606945-v" dc:identifier="start%2:41:04::">
        <SenseRelation relType="derivation" target="oewn-start-n-00236302-n"/>
        <SenseRelation relType="derivation" target="oewn-start-n-07339790-n"/>
        <SenseRelation relType="event" target="oewn-start-n-00236302-n"/>
        <SenseRelation relType="event" target="oewn-start-n-07339790-n"/>
      </Sense>
    </LexicalEntry>
    <Synset id="oewn-02606945-v" ili="i34694" partOfSpeech="v" members="oewn-begin-v oewn-start-v" lexfile="verb.social">
      <Definition language="en">begin an event that is implied and limited by the nature or inherent function of the direct object</Definition>
      <SynsetRelation relType="hypernym" target="oewn-02372362-v"/>
      <SynsetRelation relType="similar" target="oewn-02614858-v"/>
      <Example language="en">begin a cigar</Example>
      <Example language="en">She started the soup while it was still hot</Example>
      <Example language="en">We started physics in 10th grade</Example>
    </Synset>
  </Lexicon>
</LexicalResource>