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Superconcept: Event
Component Semantics:
- State
- Definition: being, having temporally unstable properties, being in
temporally unstable relation with something, etc.
- Primary slot: object
- Restriction: the Entity or Entites being in the State or being the
object of the experiencer's
experience
- Primary slot: experiencer
- Restriction: the Living-Entity experiencing the State
- WordNet 1.6 Synsets: be#1
- WordNet 1.6 Synsets: --
This is the top level concept for Events that have to do with being,
not changing. States represent relatively temporally unstable properties
and relations of an Entity. There are often Actions
that cause Entities to be in States or change from one State to another.
Since States can be thought of as snapshots of slot values associated with
Entities, it can be confusing whether an Entity having a slot indicates
a State or merely an intrinsic property of the Entity. Rather than join
the argument on properties vs. states (or even that of entities vs. sets of
properties), we include a State Event, which can be used to package
property values of Entities and relations between Entities that:
- may be changed by Actions
- are not usually thought of as properties of an Entity independent of context
- are grouped commonly enough to be lexicalized (to some degree)