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> If I say "she came from school" it is clear that we're talking about relative motion today or in the recent past from one nearby location to another.

Unless we mean that she came from one school of philosophy or art to another. Or she came from the school long ago to move somewhere else.

> If I say "her family came from Japan" it is clear I'm talking about ancestry and/or a long ago emigration

Unless her family came from Japan as part of a cruise before going to Thailand. Or her family moved out of Japan because they were American military stationed in Okinawa.

Getting rid of copula gets rid of only a small portion of the ambiguity in natural language.



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