 However, a similar analysis is unavailable for the equivalent two-sentence example in  (1).  This is because interpretation is compositional (see the entry on  compositionality  for discussion) and in our compositional analysis, we will first come to an analysis of Mary met a student yesterday, which will have the form \(\exists x(\texttt{student}(x)\wedge\texttt{met}(m,x))\). Likewise, the second sentence will correspond to \(\texttt{need-help}(x)\). Assuming that the default mode of combining multiple sentences is to conjoin them, we now arrive at: