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Solve the following problem using Python, implementing the functions described below, one line at a time
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Description:
 def sentence_spans(self):
 """The list of spans representing ``sentences`` layer elements."""

        if not self.is_tagged(SENTENCES):
            self.tokenize_sentences()
        return self.spans(SENTENCES)