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"text": "Break is an ergative verb because when we say \"The window broke\", the window is the thing getting broken, it is not the vandal."
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"text": "Although it is both transitive and intransitive, paint is not an ergative verb, because when we say \"Bob paints\", this is very different from when we say \"Bob gets painted\"."
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