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Current Metaphor: LESS IS DOWN

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Target Entailment: decreases in quantity

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Type of Inferential Structure: scalar change

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Text: Her temperature is going down.


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Comments: Also an image metaphor: the level of mercury on the thermometer changes position.


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Entailmentdecreases in quantity (motion towards lower end of verticality scale, scalar change, DECREASE IN QUANTITY IS DOWNWARD MOTION) +
ExampleEnglish (Her temperature is going down., ?, ?, ?, ?, Also an image metaphor: the level of mercury on the thermometer changes position., ?) +
Has source frameFrame:Verticality +
Has target frameFrame:Quantity +
Metaphor.AliasQUANTITY IS VERTICALITY (?) +
Metaphor.LevelGeneral +
Metaphor.Source frameFrame:Verticality +
Metaphor.Target frameFrame:Quantity +
Metaphor.TypePrimary + and Entailed +
Related metaphoris an entailment of (QUANTITY IS VERTICALITY, ?) +
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