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Feigning [agentive]
An Agent acts in such a way as to give the incorrect impression to observers that a particular State_of_affairs holds.
Jordan feigned a love of jazz music to get her phone number .
Jordan feigned a love of jazz music to get her phone number .
Properties
- ID
- #12
- Entry
- frm_feigning
- Namespace
- Eventive.Agentive
- FrameNet version
- Feigning (fn_1.7_2023)
- Domains
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- Ontological type
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- English name
- Feigning
Core Frame Elements (4)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
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| Agent |
The Agent is the person who acts in a misleading way to create the impression that a State_of_affairs holds.
A year after Audrey Seiler|agt faked her own kidnapping while at college in Wisconsin, her lawyer says she's getting help and paying restitution. |
category
sentient
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| Copy |
The Copy produced by the Creator most commonly occurs as the External Argument of a predicative use of an adjective or noun target: The painting is a fake.
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| Original |
This is the entity which is copied. With verbs it is frequently expressed as an NP Object: Pat falsified the papers.
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| State_of_affairs |
The State_of_affairs is a an event, a state, or a property that the Agent wants others to believe have occurred or hold.
A college student who staged her own disappearance last month will try to reach a plea agreement and avoid trial on charges she obstructed officers. |
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FE Core Set(s) and Excludes
CoreSet
Copy
Original
Excludes
Copy
Original
State_of_affairs
Peripheral Frame Elements (6)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
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| Degree |
Degree to which event occurs
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degree
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| Manner |
Any description of the intentional act which is not covered by more specific FEs, including secondary effects (quietly, loudly), and general descriptions comparing events (the same way). In addition, it may indicate salient characteristics of an Agent that also affect the action (presumptuously, coldly, deliberately, eagerly, carefully).
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manner
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| Means |
An act performed by the Agent that accomplishes the imitation.
I feigned death by breaking a bag of pig's blood and falling to the floor|Mns. |
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state_of_affairs
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| Place |
The place in which the Agent feigns something.
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| Purpose |
An action or state that the Agent intends to accomplish by performing the feigning of some State_of_affairs.
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state_of_affairs
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| Time |
The Time when the Agent feigns something.
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Extra-thematic Frame Elements (6)
| Frame element | Definition | Semantic type | Constraint |
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| Circumstances |
Circumstances describe the state of the world (at a particular time and place) which is specifically independent of the event itself and any of its participants.
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| Depictive |
This FE describes a participant of the state of affairs as being in some state during the feigning action.
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| Duration |
The amount of time that the Agent feigns something.
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| Explanation |
The Explanation denotes a proposition from which the feigning event logically follows.
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state_of_affairs
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| Frequency |
How often the Agent engages in the Feigning event.
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| Period_of_iterations |
The length of time from when the event denoted by the target began to be repeated to when it stopped.
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Frame-Frame Relations (1)
Using
Lexical Units (7)
| LU | Type | Definition |
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| affect.v | — | FN: pretend to have a property or be in a particular state |
| counterfeit.v | — | FN: to imitate, usually an emotion or event |
| fake.v | — | FN: to imitate an action or emotion intending to be believed |
| feign.v | — | COD: pretend to be affected by. |
| pretend.v | — | COD: act so as to make it appear that something is the case when in fact it is not. |
| simulate.v | — | FN: feign |
| stage.v | — | FN: fake or imitate |
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