In this regard, while different adjectives such as heavy and strong can convey basically the same meaning (e.g., 'intensification' in heavy load and in strong fragrance), great has different senses in great loss and in great time (with 'intensification' and 'positive' meanings, respectively).
to interpret the meaning of a sentence, a system should take into account the properties of these expressions: for instance, the meaning of the verb [to] take in the collocation take [a] cab is different from the same verb in a free combination such as take [a] pencil, so natural language understanding or abstract meaning representation systems could benefit from the correct identification of collocations (Bonial et al., 2014;O'Gorman et al., 2018).