MIAMI - Sastre3
Instances of can

11MASwe have to be doing little different things (.) to get one report so we can send it downtown so they can you know send it to us .
  wewe.PRON.SUB.1P havehave.V.1P.PRES toto.PREP bebe.V.INFIN doingdo.V.PRESPART littlelittle.ADJ differentdifferent.ADJ thingsthing.N.PL toto.PREP getget.V.INFIN oneone.PRON.SG reportreport.N.SG soso.ADV wewe.PRON.SUB.1P cancan.V.123SP.PRES sendsend.V.INFIN itit.PRON.INDIR.3S downtowndowntown.N.SG soso.ADV theythey.PRON.SUB.3P cancan.V.123SP.PRES youyou.PRON.SUB.2SP knowknow.V.2SP.PRES sendsend.SV.INFIN itit.PRON.SUB.3S toto.PREP usus.PRON.OBJ.1P .
  
11MASwe have to be doing little different things (.) to get one report so we can send it downtown so they can you know send it to us .
  wewe.PRON.SUB.1P havehave.V.1P.PRES toto.PREP bebe.V.INFIN doingdo.V.PRESPART littlelittle.ADJ differentdifferent.ADJ thingsthing.N.PL toto.PREP getget.V.INFIN oneone.PRON.SG reportreport.N.SG soso.ADV wewe.PRON.SUB.1P cancan.V.123SP.PRES sendsend.V.INFIN itit.PRON.INDIR.3S downtowndowntown.N.SG soso.ADV theythey.PRON.SUB.3P cancan.V.123SP.PRES youyou.PRON.SUB.2SP knowknow.V.2SP.PRES sendsend.SV.INFIN itit.PRON.SUB.3S toto.PREP usus.PRON.OBJ.1P .
  
270MASlike [/] like right now I have three thousand nine hundred people [//] (.) applicants (.) on a list (.) than having five hundred only that you can scroll down and [/] and [/] and choose from that .
  likelike.CONJ.[or].like.V.INFIN likelike.CONJ rightright.ADJ nownow.ADV II.PRON.SUB.1S havehave.V.1S.PRES threethree.NUM thousandthousand.NUM ninenine.NUM hundredhundred.NUM peoplepeople.N.SG applicantsapplicant.N.PL onon.PREP aa.DET.INDEF listlist.N.SG thanthan.CONJ havinghave.V.PRESPART fivefive.NUM hundredhundred.NUM onlyonly.ADJ.[or].on.PREP+ADV thatthat.CONJ youyou.PRON.SUB.2SP cancan.V.2SP.PRES scrollscroll.N.SG downdown.PREP andand.CONJ andand.CONJ andand.CONJ choosechoose.V.INFIN fromfrom.PREP thatthat.DEM.FAR .
  
426OLIsome people have to do an application three times before they can get it correctly .
  somesome.ADJ peoplepeople.N.SG havehave.N.SG toto.PREP dodo.V.INFIN anan.DET.INDEF applicationapplication.N.SG threethree.NUM timestime.N.PL beforebefore.CONJ theythey.PRON.SUB.3P cancan.V.123SP.PRES getget.V.INFIN itit.PRON.OBJ.3S correctlycorrectly.ADV.[or].correct.V.3S.PRES+ADV .
  
428OLIbefore it can go through the whole screening and downtown screens them and everything (.) sometimes three times they have to do it .
  beforebefore.CONJ itit.PRON.SUB.3S cancan.V.3S.PRES gogo.V.INFIN throughthrough.PREP thethe.DET.DEF wholewhole.ADJ screeningunk andand.CONJ downtowndowntown.N.SG screensscreen.N.PL themthem.PRON.OBJ.3P andand.CONJ everythingeverything.PRON sometimessometime.ADV+V 3S PRES threethree.NUM timestime.N.PL theythey.PRON.SUB.3P havehave.V.3P.PRES toto.PREP dodo.V.INFIN itit.PRON.OBJ.3S .
  
498MAS+" let's take (th)em downtown and show them what he needs (.) and how he does this (.) so they can understand what's our problem .
  let'slet.V.IMPER+US.PRON.SUB.1P taketake.SV.INFIN themthem.PRON.OBJ.3P downtowndowntown.N.SG andand.CONJ showshow.V.INFIN themthem.PRON.OBJ.3P whatwhat.REL hehe.PRON.SUB.M.3S needsneeds.ADV.[or].need.V.3S.PRES andand.CONJ howhow.ADV hehe.PRON.SUB.M.3S doesdoes.V.3S.PRES thisthis.DEM.NEAR.SG soso.ADV theythey.PRON.SUB.3P cancan.V.123SP.PRES understandunderstand.V.INFIN what'swhat.REL+GB ourour.ADJ.POSS.1P problemproblem.N.SG .
  
587OLIyou can actually (.) go into um (.) MiamiSE day dot gov and to the testing site .
  youyou.PRON.SUB.2SP cancan.V.2SP.PRES actuallyactual.ADJ+ADV gogo.V.INFIN intointo.PREP umum.IM Miaminame dayday.N.SG dotdot.N.SG govgov.N.SG andand.CONJ toto.PREP thethe.DET.DEF testingtest.V.PRESPART sitesite.N.SG .
  
748OLI+" I can see (.) that you're +//.
  II.PRON.SUB.1S cancan.V.1S.PRES seesee.V.INFIN thatthat.CONJ.[or].that.DEM.FAR you'reyou.PRON.SUB.2SP+BE.V.PRES .
  
750OLIand you can see that he's interested and that he wants to learn and he wants to you know +...
  andand.CONJ youyou.PRON.SUB.2SP cancan.V.2SP.PRES seesee.V.INFIN thatthat.CONJ.[or].that.DEM.FAR he'she.PRON.SUB.M.3S+BE.V.3S.PRES interestedinterest.N.SG+AV andand.CONJ thatthat.DEM.FAR hehe.PRON.SUB.M.3S wantswant.V.3S.PRES toto.PREP learnlearn.V.INFIN andand.CONJ hehe.PRON.SUB.M.3S wantswant.V.3S.PRES toto.PREP youyou.PRON.SUB.2SP knowknow.V.2SP.PRES .
  

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