 Moreover, they were aware that simple terms might have complex or polysemous meanings, and that the problems of analysis are compounded as terms are combined into larger expressions. As a result, it became increasingly evident that complex expressions of the same grammatical form can have different conditions of satisfaction. An example from the Lesser Selection (Xiao Qu) noted above comes from their analysis of the expressions “loving people” (ai ren) and “riding horses” (cheng ma):