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Component Semantics:
- Be-Ruined
- Definition: object permanently unable to serve its function
- Required slot: object
- Restriction: has a function slot: object plays some
role in some Event
- Restriction: object must not play that role in any such Event
- WordNet 1.6 Synsets: broken#11
- WordNet 1.6 Synsets: busted#3
The restriction that an object of Be-Ruined not serve its
function could be handled in slot semantics. For example, an
instrument of an Event must not be filled by an Entity
whose function it is to fill that slot in such an Event.
The distinction between Be-Ruined and Be-Broken is
that a Broken object can be restored to serve its function
whereas a Ruined object is permanently Ruined. That is, an
object can be brought out of a Be-Broken
state (by a Repair action).