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    It is not the case that Textual entailment systems that operate on syntactic trees without intensional semantics omit the modal and temporal operators central to Montague Grammar.

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    • 1.Most textual entailment datasets lack modal/temporal complexity; syntactic systems achieve high performance on actual tasks without intensional semantics.
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    • 2.Neural models learn implicit modal/temporal representations from data without formal Montague structures, suggesting explicit intensional semantics unnecessary.
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    • 3.Montague Grammar's mathematical elegance doesn't entail that practical NLP must implement it; engineering solutions can succeed via different architectures.
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    • 1.Montague Grammar systematically represents modality and temporality; syntactic trees alone cannot distinguish 'must happen' from 'happens'.
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    • 2.Entailment validity depends on scope relations between operators; syntax without intensional semantics conflates different logical structures.
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    • 3.Natural language reasoning about obligations, possibilities, and time-order requires explicit modal/temporal operators to avoid false entailments.
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