Negation Cue

In addition to typical negation words, such as “no”, “not’, “none” and “neither ~ nor ~”, the following words/phrases can be negation cues.

instead of
lack(s)/lacking
loss/lost
rather than
other than
without
absence/absent
barely
failed to
inability/incapable
(very) little
(very) poor
(too/very) low

The reaction event words such as “unprotonated” and “unactivated” should be clicked with “Negation” for the Event attributes, although they do not have corresponding negation cues (example 8).

Example 8