6 In contrast, out of the 3073 adjacent sentence pairs in our corpus, 2140 (70%) were linked by an explicit connective, 948 (30%) were linked via non-wa connectives.
for our corpus, modeling of explicit connectives is primary: intrasentential relations tend to be marked by connectives anyway in both English and Arabic, and our corpus shows that this is true for most local intersentential relations as well.