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Component Semantics:
- Support
- Definition: prevent from falling
- Required slot: object
- Restriction: a Tangible-Entity
- Required slot: post-conditions
- Restriction: object is the object of a
Be-Supported
- Primary slot: agent
- Inherited from: Obstruct
- Restriction: causes object to be supported
- Primary slot: instrument
- Inherited from: Obstruct
- Restriction: used to support object
- Restriction: the "support"
- WordNet 1.6 Synsets: support#4
- WordNet 1.6 Synsets: hold#16, hold_up#1, sustain#5
Support puts an object into a
Be-Supported state, which prevents the object
from being the object of a Fall action.
Let-Fall takes the object out of the
Be-Supported state.
Other Senses:
- support2
- Definition: agree with/endorse
- Transitivity: transitive
- support3
- Definition: back financially/patronize
- Transitivity: transitive
- support4
- Definition: corroborate/prove
- Transitivity: transitive
- support5
- Definition: help/reinforce
- Transitivity: transitive
- support6
- Definition: provide for
- Transitivity: transitive
Reference: Levin
Levin has much to say about Support, the
positive admire-type psych verb but not much about
physical support. The one mention of physical support is in Part Two
where it appears among verbs of contiguous location.
The requirement that agent and object be
contiguous is true of all Obstruct Actions.
Reference: COBUILD
- COBUILDsupport1
- Equivalent: support2
- COBUILDsupport3
- Equivalent: support5
- COBUILDsupport5
- Equivalent: support3
- COBUILDsupport6
- Equivalent: support1
- COBUILDsupport7
- Equivalent: support1
- COBUILDsupport9
- Equivalent: support6
- COBUILDsupport10
- Equivalent: support6
- COBUILDsupport11
- Equivalent: support4
Reference: LDOCE
LDOCEsupport1Equivalent: support1
LDOCEsupport2Equivalent: support6
LDOCEsupport3Equivalent: support6
LDOCEsupport4Equivalent: support2
LDOCEsupport5Equivalent: support3
LDOCEsupport6Equivalent: support4
LDOCEsupport7Equivalent: noneComment: ???
Reference: NODE
NODEsupport1Equivalents: support1, support5, support6
NODEsupport2Equivalents: support3, support5
NODEsupport2.1Equivalent: support6
NODEsupport2.2Equivalent: support5
NODEsupport2.3Equivalent: support2
NODEsupport2.4Equivalent: support4
NODEsupport2.5Equivalent: support3
NODEsupport2.6Equivalent: support5
NODEsupport2.7Equivalent: support5
NODEsupport3Equivalent: support5
Reference: WordNet1.6
- WNsupport#1
- Equivalent: support2
- WNsupport#2
- Equivalent: support3
- WNsupport#3
- Equivalent: support2
- WNsupport#4
- Equivalent: support1
- WNsupport#5
- Equivalent: support4
- WNsupport#6
- Equivalent: support2
- WNsupport#7
- Equivalent: support4
- WNsupport#8
- Equivalent: support2
- WNsupport#9
- Equivalent: support5
- WNsupport#10
- Equivalent: support5
- WNsupport#11
- Equivalent: support3