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Target Role: entity

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Target Role: quantity_scale

Source Role: size_scale

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Target Role: measure_of_quantity

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Target Role: entity_amount

Source Role: entity_size

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Target Entailment: greater quantities

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Type of Inferential Structure: aligned scales

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Target Entailment: lesser quantities

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Text: What is the size of your bank account?


Provenance: Ellen

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Text: He doesn't know how big our national debt is.


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Entailmentgreater quantities (larger sizes, aligned scales, MORE IS BIG) + and lesser quantities (smaller sizes, aligned scales, LESS IS SMALL) +
ExampleEnglish (What is the size of your bank account?, ?, ?, Ellen, ?, ?, ?) + and English (He doesn't know how big our national debt is., ?, ?, Ellen, ?, ?, ?) +
Has source frameFrame:Size +
Has target frameFrame:Quantity +
Mappingentity (entity, ?) +, quantity_scale (size_scale, ?) +, measure_of_quantity (scalar_position, ?) + and entity_amount (entity_size, ?) +
Metaphor.AliasQUANTITY IS SIZE (?) +, AMOUNT IS SIZE (?) + and QUANTITY IS VOLUME (?) +
Metaphor.Experiential basisAs the amount of an entity or group of entiies increases, the 3-dimensional spatial extent of that entity tends to increase +
Metaphor.LevelGeneral +
Metaphor.Source frameFrame:Size +
Metaphor.Target frameFrame:Quantity +
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