Consider the TRS R consisting of the rewrite rules 1: a__c -> a__f(g(c)) 2: a__f(g(X)) -> g(X) 3: mark(c) -> a__c 4: mark(f(X)) -> a__f(X) 5: mark(g(X)) -> g(X) 6: a__c -> c 7: a__f(X) -> f(X) There are 3 dependency pairs: 8: A__C -> A__F(g(c)) 9: MARK(c) -> A__C 10: MARK(f(X)) -> A__F(X) The approximated dependency graph contains no SCCs and hence the TRS is trivially terminating.