Assertions from Discourse Structure
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then the most natural interpretation is that the Fuji Gardens is a restaurant at which the speaker would like to eat with the hearer. The text is heard as exhibiting a problem-and-solution structure. Consequently, we can say that there is a proposition which says that there is a "solutionhood" relation between the two sentences. In this case, going to the Fuji Gardens (partially) solves the hunger problem.
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تاریخ انتشار 1986