FrameNet II: Extended theory and practice
Josef Ruppenhofer, Michael Ellsworth, Miriam R. L. Petruck, Christopher R. Johnson, Jan Scheffczyk · Publication Server of the Institute for German Language (Institute for German Language) · 2006
The understandings of ( 17) and ( 18) are clearly similar.However, there is a difference between the sentences in terms of the relative salience of the two frames, Mental property and Commerce sell.(17) mainly reports an event of selling whereas (18) focuses on the assessment of what the selling behavior says about the seller's mental abilities.The lie-test shows that this is so.If a speaker challenges (17) by saying That's a lie, the selling event is being contested, but if they challenge (18) in the same way, what's denied is the appropriateness of the assessment that it was wise to sell.This pragmatic difference fails to be captured by many current logical representation formalisms of adverb meanings, which suggest that the adverb has the clause in its scope.While FrameNet's practice of grouping the adjective and adverb in the same frame is in line with the logical-semantic similarity, it does not match the pragmatic-syntactic fact that the frame evoked by the syntactic head of the clause is more prominent.