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Action/Event Equivalent (AEE)

The Action/Event Equivalent Relation (AEE) serves to translate between the world of Actions and Concepts. ItFor instance, for A "to baptize", the AEE would be C "baptism".

Importantly, AEE is a way for verbs to acquire coherent Superclasses. While Superclass is allowed for Actions, most verbs do not have manifest Superclassess: e.g., A "to baptize" does not have any Superclass of A "* to ritualize", while C "baptism" can acquire quite a straightforward Superclass tree (e.g. C "Christian ritual", which in turn will have the Superclass C "ritual"). These Superclasses of AEE are shown under Actions in InkVisitor, thereby helping coders to decide whether an Action fits the specific context.

Since any specific Event, which is a baptism, should have the Classification C "baptism", all specific "baptism" Events and all Statements with the Action "to baptize" can also be queried together in the database.