## Adding Agentive Nouns

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| Adding to the CYC® Lexicon using WALES
| Adding Proper Nouns
| Adding Regular Verbs

Agentive nouns typically denote doers or performers of actions. The convention is to make agentive noun assertions on the constant whose name represents the action. For example, for the agentive noun "worker" will have assertions on the constant "Work-TheWord" in which "work" is the "root form". Thus, on the "Add to Lexicon" page, you will enter the closest "root form". Depending on whether the plural form of the agentive noun is formed regularly or irregularly, you will click on the appropriate button and then follow the procedure given for adding simple nons - with the exception that you will be filling the "Agentive Noun" boxes, rather than the "Noun" ones.

Last Update: 03/28/2002