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Superconcept: Event
Component Semantics:
- Action
- Definition: do something, perform some act, change, happen, etc.
- Primary slot: object
- Restriction: the Entity having the Action done to it
- Primary slot: agent
- Restriction: does the Action
- Primary slot: instrument
- Restriction: used by the agent to do the Action
- WordNet 1.6 Synsets: act#1
- WordNet 1.6 Synsets: do#1, do#2, execute#6, make#1, move#8, perform#1
This is the top level concept for Events that have to do with doing
or changing. Actions may be purely active (like Locomotion),
purely passive (like Fall) or something in between
(like the intransitive Break). Actions often correspond
to changes in State.