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 === Turning PartiallyParsedSentences into FullyParsedSentences ===
+The difference is that a PartiallyParsedSentence assigns a ''substring'' to each argument of the verb; a FullyParsedSentence assigns a '''noun suggestion''' to each argument of the verb.  To turn one into the other involves giving the substring to a NounType and getting back a list of noun suggestions; we can then instantiate one FullyParsedSentence for each suggestion.
+In practical terms, if our PartiallyParsedSentence is this:
+ Verb: Translate; Direct object: "hello, world"; To: "ja"
+Then noun_type_language.suggest() might produce two suggestions based on "ja":
+* {text:"japanese", data: "jp"}
+* {text:"javanese", data: "jv"}
+(This is a bad example because we don't actually have Javanese implemented, but bear with me.)  Meanwhile, noun_arb_text which is the type of the direct object produces just one suggestion:
+ {text:"hello, world"}
+So we now produce two FullyParsedSentences which are:
+* Verb: Translate; Direct object: {text:"hello, world"}; To: {text:"japanese"}
+* Verb: Translate; Direct object: {text:"hello, world"}; To: {text:"javanese"}
 === Filling missing arguments with the selection ===