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Class: MentalInactive

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  • rdfs:comment "Concepts in this category describe passive, inactive mental processing. There are 3 subtypes of this category: Perception (e.g. `see`, `hear`, `taste`, `smell`, `feel`), Cognition (e.g. `think`, `believe`, `know`, `understand`, `realize`), and Reaction/Emotion/Affection (e.g. `love`, `hate`, `want`, `wish`, `fear`, `desire`.) MentalInactives do not normally take the progressive form. Recall that materialactions do take the progressive form.Passivization is rare for most of these, except in the case where the phenomenon is a noun phrase, e.g. ``Henry likes Mary.'' ``Mary is liked by Henry.'' but not ``Henry likes to go to the races.'' ``*To go to the races is liked by Henry.'' These also often form `reversal pairs'. One of the mental actions in the pair is active, the other is inactive (or inactive), e.g.``I *like* bananas.'' vs. ``Bananas *please* me.'' Other pairs are {fear, frighten}, {wonder, amaze}, {desire, attract}. Compare this to actions where reversal is only possible using passive voice."(xsd:string)

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