Alternativity

In this frame, there is a Profiled_alternative that the speaker wishes to primarily focus on and which is mutually exclusive with a Contrasting_alternative. It is not possible for both to be true in the same context with the same participants, although the described situation may be true of the same entities at different times, or true of different entities at the same time. Frames inheriting from this one, e.g. Negation, may indicate which of the alternatives is imagined to be the case, but in other frames related to this one, e.g. Conditional_scenario and Alternatives, both alternatives are presented as possible, and which one is true remains an open question.