| TARGET FEATURE* | DESCRIPTION | VALUES | METAPHORS ** | DESCRIPTION | SOURCE FEAURE | VALUE |
| DIFF | Difficulty | Present, Absent | OBSTACLES_ARE
DIFFICULTIES |
Standard Event Structure Metaphor | OBSTACLE | present, Absent |
| EC_STATE | Economic State | Recession, No Growth, Low Medium and High Grwoth | LOCATIONS ARE STATES | same as above | LOC (Location) | Hole, Stable Ground, Slippery, Uphill |
| ASPECT | Aspectual Status of the Target Action/State | Corresponds to the Aspect Graph with nodes for Ready, Starting, Ongoing, Suspended, Finishing, Done, Stopped and Canceled. | PAT_STATE IS EC_STATE | From the Health Source Domain. Economies are usually viewed as Patients
and
the state of the economy as the state of the Patient |
PAT_STATE(Patient State) | Healthy, Diseased |
| IN_CONTROL | Is the Actor in control of the Policy/State | True, False
|
CONTROL_IS_CONTROL(ACT) | States that control of one's motion of body in the source is often mapped to control of the policy of action. | CONTROLLER_STATE | Controller Graph Nodes |
| POL_EVAL | Policy Evaluation Information that can be inferred from the input | Good, Bad | FALL_IS FAIL | Standard Event Structure | STABILIZE | x-schema |
| GOAL | The Goal Of the Policy | Unregulated_freetrade,
Protectionism |
DISTANCE(forw) IS PROGRESS | Standard Event Structure Metaphor | EXPEND_ENERGY | x-schema |
| OUTCOME | The outcome of the Policy | Succeed, Fail | ACTORS ARE MOVERS | same as above | UNSTABLE | x-schema state |
| PROG_AMT | Amount of Progress made different stages | None, Low, Medium, High | MOTION IS ACTION | ditto | FALL | x-schema |
| ACTOR | Economic Actor | US, Germany, France, India | TREATMENT IS POLICY | Health domain metaphor that seems quite productive in Economics. Can
be used to specify evaluation
of policies, assign responsibility/blame, etc. |
DISTANCE | x-schema Parameter
TIny, Small, Med, Large, Giant |
| POLICY | The type of Economic Policy followed | Liberalization, Protectionism | PROG_RATE IS SPEED | Event Structure | MOVER | x-schema role |
| PROG_RATE | Rate of Progress in Policy | None, Low, Med, High | POL(dir) IS MOTION(dir) | ditto | MOTION | present, Absent |
| PROG_DIR | Policy Direction | Forward (toward Goal), Backward(away from Goal), Sideways(Tangential) | TREATMENT | Good, Bad | ||
| speed | x-schema parameter
slow-, slow, med,high,high+ |
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| DIRECTION | x-schema parameter
forward, backward, sideways |
** Note: All Metaphors are Active or Inactive during processing.