Affordance Interface
Brief:
Quickly list affordances (uses) of a particular object or type
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This is an emacs interface which queries the KNext parse of the
British National corpus in order to quickly list actions, facts,
etc that can apply to that particular object or type.
For
instance, when querying the type "car", here are some
representative examples of the kinds of items returned:
does-approach does-arrive does-belong-to-someone does-break_down
does-come-to-a-halt does-crash does-drive_off does-move
does-pull_up does-run does-slow does-start does-stop
does-undergo-a-delivery does-undergo-a-purchase
does-undergo-a-theft does-undergo-a-use does-wait has-a-back
has-a-boot has-a-door has-a-driver has-a-floor has-a-front
has-a-length has-a-rear has-a-roof has-a-seat has-a-side
has-a-sound has-a-top has-a-value has-a-wheel has-a-window
has-a-windscreen has-a-wreckage has-an-end has-an-engine
has-an-interior has-an-owner has-control has-headlights has-wheels
is-armoured is-beautiful is-black is-broken-down is-clamped
is-competitive is-damaged is-dark is-driven is-found is-heavy
is-hired is-in-a-country is-in-a-garage is-in-a-road is-in-an-area
is-in-front is-in-the-world is-nice is-on-a-road is-on-fire
is-oncoming is-open is-parked is-powerful is-red is-secondhand
is-seen is-serviced is-stolen is-stopped is-unmarked is-white
is-yellow