Table 3 Recursive syntactic rules order, constituent terms, and example generated synonyms

1

“via” or “involved in” terms

GO:0002679 - respiratory burst involved in defense response

“respiratory burst”, “defense response”

“defense response associated respiratory burst”

2

“regulation of” terms

GO:0030513 - positive regulation of BMP signaling pathway

“BMP signaling pathway”

‘positive regulation of BMP receptor pathway”, “up-regulation of BMP receptor signaling”

3

“response to” terms

GO:0034263 - autophagy in response to ER overload

“autophagy”, “ER overload”

“ER overload responsible for autophagy”, “autophagy response to ER overload”

4

“signaling” terms

GO:0035329 - hippo signaling

“hippo”

“hippo signaling pathway”, “signaling of hippo”

5

“biosynthetic process” terms

GO:0042095 - interferon-gamma biosynthetic process

“interferon-gama”

“interferon-gamma biosynthesis”, “production of interferon-gamma”

6

“metabolic process” terms

GO:0042120 - alginic acid metabolic process

“alginic acid”

“metabolism of alginic acid”, “alginic acid metabolism”

7

“catabolic process” terms

GO:0042190 - vanillin catabolic process

“vanillin”

“vanillin degradation”, “breakdown of vanillin”

8

“binding” terms

GO:0042314 - bacteriochlorophyll binding

“bacteriochlorophyll”

“binding of bacteriochlorophyll”, “bacteriochlorophyll bound”

9

“transport” terms

GO:0042876 - aldarate transmembrane transporter activity

“aldarate”, “transmembrane”

“transportation of aldarate across the membrane”, “transporting aldarate transmembrane”

10

“differentiation” terms

GO:0043158 - heterocyst differentiation

“heterocyst”

“heterocyst cell differentiation”, “differentiation into heterocyst”

11

“activity” terms

GO:0043492 - ATPase activity, coupled to movement of substances

“ATPase”, “coupled to movement of substances”

“ATPase, coupled to movement of substances”, “coupled to movement of substances activity of ATPase”