Measure two cups of rice. "That's next," said Amelia Bedelia. Amelia Bedelia found two cups. She filled them with rice. And Amelia Bedelia measured that rice. Amelia Bedelia laughed. "These folks do want me to do funny things." Then she poured the rice back into the container.
The accompanying illustration shows Amelia Bedelia in the kitchen. She has filled two cups with rice, stacked them onto each other, and is now measuring their hight with a tape measure. Two annotations on different levels of communication (Change of Communication Level). Connected Entry, because the ambiguity is set up in waw190047 and resolved in waw190083.
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measure two cups of rice
apportion two cups of rice
measure the height of two cups of rice
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TYPE 1: unambiguous use ORDER: P: Par1; R: Par2 CONTEXT: sociocultural context
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