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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Cognition. 2015 Jun 6;142:266–290. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.05.015

Table 1.

Instrument and recipient verbs

Require instrument Allow instrument Require recipient Allow recipient


Touch Eat Serve Kick
Hit Drink Teach Throw
Beat Break Send Toss
Poke Open Tell Roll
Stab Kill Sell Push
Cut Attack Lend Slide
Chop Paint Pay Take
Slice Grow Offer Bounce
Write Move
Draw Lift
Dig Clean
Stir Wash