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Superconcept: Action
Component Semantics:
- Make-Contact
- Definition: objects make contact
- Required slot: object
- Restriction: One Tangible-Entity
- Restriction: the thing that the object makes contact with
Required slot: pre-condition
- Restriction: the object and the base must not already
Be-Touching
Required slot: post-condition
- Restriction: object and base are the objects
of a Be-Touching state.
Primary slot: agent
- Restriction: causes object and base to Make-Contact
Primary slot: location
- Restriction: a Place
- Comment: the location is the base's
location
WordNet 1.6 Synsets: --
WordNet 1.6 Synsets: touch#1
Make-Contact is an action in which one object and a base
are made to touch each other. Make-Contact results in the object and
base) being objects of a Be-Touching
state. They can be taken out of the Be-Touching state by a
Break-Contact action.