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reversibility
Semantic property to do with whether the subject and object of a sentence can be swapped to create a semantically plausible sentence.

Example:
We know The chicken saw the horse is reversible because The horse saw the chicken makes sense (even though it doesn't mean the same). But compare the irreversible The chicken pecked the horse.

Topic: Interpreting sentences