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Target Role: problem

Source Role: disease

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Target Role: society

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Target Role: honest_citizen

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Target Role: immoral_citizen

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Target Role: social_program

Source Role: bodily_healing_system

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Target Entailment: Societal actions can help reduce or eliminate social problems

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Target Entailment: inability to address social problems results in continued poor function

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Text: Our society is turning gangrene with dishonesty.


Provenance: Jisup

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Text: اینگونه جنبشهای اجتماعی (social movements) در واقع یک بیماری اجتتماعی هستند.


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EntailmentSocietal actions can help reduce or eliminate social problems (people's actions can alleviate symptoms and cure disease, ?, ADDRESSING SOCIAL PROBLEMS IS TREATING AN ILLNESS) + and inability to address social problems results in continued poor function (inability to treat disease results in continued poor health, ?, INABILITY TO ADDRESS SOCIAL PROBLEMS IS INABILITY TO TREAT A DISEASE) +
ExampleEnglish (Our society is turning gangrene with dishonesty., ?, ?, Jisup, ?, ?, ?) + and Persian (اینگونه جنبشهای اجتماعی (social movements) در واقع یک بیماری اجتتماعی هستند., ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?) +
Has source frameFrame:Disease +
Has target frameFrame:Social problems +
Mappingproblem (disease, ?) +, society (person, ?) +, honest_citizen (healthy_cell, ?) +, immoral_citizen (diseased_cell, ?) +, social_program (bodily_healing_system, ?) +, social_functioning (health_status, ?) + and authority (doctor, ?) +
Metaphor.AliasSOCIAL PROBLEMS ARE DISEASES (George Lakoff) + and ADDRESSING SOCIAL PROBLEMS IS TREATING A DISEASE (?) +
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Metaphor.Source frameFrame:Disease +
Metaphor.Target frameFrame:Social problems +
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Related metaphormakes use of (IMMORALITY IS DISEASE, ?) + and is a source subcase of (SOCIAL PROBLEMS ARE PHYSICAL AFFLICTIONS, ?) +
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