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Timaporn wrote:
> So it means that if I want to represent
> "toy gun" =  (build head toy mod gun)?

Nope; the other way around (since the noun
is always the "head" and the adjective is
always the "mod"ifier):

(build mod toy head gun)

Jun Xu correctly answered your problem about
SNePS not recognizing these relations; all
relations (except for those built-in for use
by SNIP and SNeRE, namely, the logical relations,
and "action") must be user-defined.