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Familiarity [gradable]

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An Entity is presented as having been seen or experienced by a (typically generic and backgrounded) Cognizer on a certain number of occasions, causing the Entity to have a certain degree of recognizability for the Cognizer.

Susanna Fulton's work is new to me.

Two of these frames were new to me|cog as a beginning professor.

This|ent was as|deg new to him|cog as the rest of the outcity|deg.

JSON|ent is fairly|deg new to me|cog as a data format.

Moreover, this way of describing and categorizing architecture is familiar to most people.

Coronaviruses are not unfamiliar to the epidemiological world.

Abbey Stadium will bring us into contact with one familiar face at least.

Properties

ID
#1597
Entry
frm_familiarity
Namespace
Attribute.Gradable
FrameNet version
Familiarity (fn_1.7_2023)
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Ontological type
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English name
Familiarity

Core Frame Elements (3)

Core Frame Elements
Frame element Definition Semantic type Constraint
Cognizer
The (typically non-specific and backgrounded) sentient being for whom the Entity possesses a specified level of recognizability.

The information used to illustrate the concept is familiar to the reader.
category
sentient
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Degree
The deviation of the actual level of recognizability of the Entity from the level specified by the target.

He gave an address quite familiar to the chauffeur.
category
degree
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Entity
A concrete thing or abstract phenomenon or fact that is assessed in terms of how well recognizable it is to a Cognizer.

He gave an address|ent quite familiar to the chauffeur.
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Peripheral Frame Elements (1)

Peripheral Frame Elements
Frame element Definition Semantic type Constraint
Context
A situation or source from which the Entity is made more recognizanble to the Cognizer.
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Extra-thematic Frame Elements (2)

Extra-thematic Frame Elements
Frame element Definition Semantic type Constraint
Depictive
This FE describes the Cognizer as being in some state during the event.
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Role
This FE identifies the role filled by a particular participant of the clause headed by the target. In so doing, it relates the specification of a level of familiarity to another background state of affairs by indicating that one of the role fillers of the current frame also fills a second kind of role in the background, either generically or in some specific instance.


I wanted to go with what was familiar to me as an artist.
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Frame-Frame Relations (1)

Inheritance

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Gradable_attributes
FE-FE

Lexical Units (7)

Lexical units of this frame
LU Type Definition
acquainted.a โ€” COD: know personally.
familiar.a โ€” COD: well known
intimate.a โ€” COD: closely acquainted
ken.n โ€” COD: one's range of knowledge or sight.
know.v โ€” COD: be familiar or friendly with.
new.a โ€” COD: unfamiliar or strange to
unfamiliar.a โ€” COD: not known or recognized; uncharacteristic
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