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Current Metaphor: LESS IS SMALL

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Target Entailment: decreases in quantity

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Type of Inferential Structure: aligned scales

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Text: She has very little money.


Provenance: Ellen

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Text: The number of available parking spaces continues to shrink.


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Facts about "LESS IS SMALL"
Entailmentdecreases in quantity (decreases in size, aligned scales, ?) +
Example? (She has very little money., ?, ?, Ellen, ?, ?, ?) + and ? (The number of available parking spaces continues to shrink., ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) +
Has source frameFrame:Size +
Has target frameFrame:Quantity +
Metaphor.Source frameFrame:Size +
Metaphor.Target frameFrame:Quantity +
Metaphor.TypeEntailed +
Related metaphoris an entailment of (QUANTITY IS SIZE, ?) +
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