]> 2008/06/10 OpenCyc Knowledge Base Copyright© 2001-2008 Cycorp, Inc., http://www.cyc.com/, Austin, TX, USA This file contains an OWL representation of information contained in the OpenCyc Knowledge Base. The content of this OWL file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license whose text can be found at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode. The content of this OWL file, including the OpenCyc content it represents, constitutes the "Work" referred to in the Creative Commons license. The terms of this license equally apply to, without limitation, renamings and other logically equivalent reformulations of the content of this OWL file (or portions thereof) in any natural or formal language, as well as to derivations of this content or inclusion of it in other ontologies. externalID A unique, language-neutral, variable-sized identifier for a concept that can be used to refer unambiguously to that concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. label A natural-language representation for a concept that is both human readable and readable by the Cyc inference engine. These terms are not guaranteed to refer to the same concept across time but are guaranteed to be consistent within a particular OWL export. Use 'cycAnnot:externalID' for unambiguously referring to a concept across OWL exports or across Cyc inference engines. The collection of all mass nouns. Mass nouns are syntactically singular, and often they denote stufflike things. Example: 'water'. This collection also includes proper mass nouns like 'Pepsi', agentive mass nouns like 'moisturizer', etc. MassNoun-Generic mass noun http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_noun mass nouns ProperMassNoun The collection of all proper mass nouns. Proper mass nouns are usually capitalized. proper mass noun A <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBcpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpeechPart</a> and a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwMhBi5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">MassNoun_Generic</a> (q.v.). This is the collection of all ordinary mass nouns. Mass nouns are typically used to refer to "stufflike" things, such as homogeneous substances or processes/conditions/concepts without subdivisions (e.g. instances, or instances of instances, of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVir35wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">StuffType</a> (q.v.)). In English syntax, mass nouns are always singular in form, are preceded in indefinite descriptions with the word 'some' rather than 'a' or 'an', and cannot be preceded with a numeric determiner (e.g. 'three'). Examples of English mass nouns include 'water'and 'glamour'. Cf <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAeJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CountNoun</a>. MassNoun common mass noun The collection of all mass nouns. Mass nouns are syntactically singular, and often they denote stufflike things. Example: 'water'. This collection also includes proper mass nouns like 'Pepsi', agentive mass nouns like 'moisturizer', etc. MassNoun-Generic mass noun The collection of all mass nouns. Mass nouns are syntactically singular, and often they denote stufflike things. Example: 'water'. This collection also includes proper mass nouns like 'Pepsi', agentive mass nouns like 'moisturizer', etc. MassNoun-Generic mass noun The collection of all mass nouns. Mass nouns are syntactically singular, and often they denote stufflike things. Example: 'water'. This collection also includes proper mass nouns like 'Pepsi', agentive mass nouns like 'moisturizer', etc. MassNoun-Generic mass noun noun The collection of all nouns. A type of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rtZOekUWhEdaDxQCw0HTBHw" class="cyc_term">OpenClassWord</a>. The concept <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvojLOpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Noun</a> is a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rGiHz-qR9EdqAAAACs4vPlg" class="cyc_term">WordNetSpeechPart</a> and a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBcpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpeechPart</a>. Noun SpeechPart The collection of all parts of speech -- a specialization of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkA9JwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">LinguisticObjectType</a>. Instances of <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViBcpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">SpeechPart</a> include <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvVkJX5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Preposition</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViALJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Adverb</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAeJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CountNoun</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAd5wpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Determiner</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwPKwfJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">QuantifyingIndexical</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViESZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Punctuation_SP</a>, <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwP4CspwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Pronoun</a>). To link a specific word with the parts of speech for which it has forms, see <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvV5PTZwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">posForms</a>; e.g., #$You-TheWord has a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwP4CspwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Pronoun</a> form, #$And-TheWord has a <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvWRLCJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CoordinatingConjunction</a> form, #$Hit-TheWord has both <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAeJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">CountNoun</a> and <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rvViAfJwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">Verb</a> forms. part of speech Pretty String (<a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> TERM STRING) means that STRING is the English word or expression (sequence of words) commonly used to refer to TERM. The predicate <a href="http://sw.opencyc.org/2008/06/10/concept/Mx4rwLSVCpwpEbGdrcN5Y29ycA" class="cyc_term">prettyString</a> is used by the code which generates CycL to English paraphrases, but its applicability is not restricted to this use. prettyString