Assertion: diagram | /r/CapableOf | display relationship
Facets:
value: often
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: The idea is that sentential languages are based on acoustic signals which are sequential in nature, and so must have a compensatingly complex syntax in order to express certain relationships—whereas diagrams, being two-dimensional, are able to display some relationships without the intervention of a complex syntax (Stenning & Lemon 2001).
text: Writing and meditating can be great to solve personal problems, but often a diagram can express relationships that a few sentences or linear conscious thought cannot.
text: If the diagram shows no relationship, consider whether the independent (x-axis) variable has been varied widely.