Research Article
Affect and Metaphor Sensing in Virtual Drama
Table 1
Size adjectives and degree adverbs and their corresponding semantic tags.
| Size adjectives and degree adverbs | Semantic tag |
| Maximizer adjectives (e.g., huge) | n3.2++ | Booster adjectives (e.g., “big”, “massive”, and “fat”) | n3.2+ | Diminisher adjectives (e.g., “little”, “small”, and “tiny”) | n3.2 | Maximizer adverbs (e.g., “completely”) | a13.2 | Booster adverbs (e.g., “greatly”) | a13.3 | Approximator adverbs (e.g., “almost”) | a13.4 | Compromiser adverbs (e.g., “pretty”) | a13.5 | Diminisher adverbs (e.g., “slightly”) | a13.6 | Minimizer adverbs (e.g., “hardly”) | a13.7 | Frequency minimizer adverbs (e.g., “rarely”). | n6 |
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