motivates

Relates a desire, intention, or commitment to an event the agent undertook (at least in part) because of it — the teleological reading of action. NOT functional, and an attributed-motive claim like any other: whose reading of the motive it is rides gmeow:accordingTo on the statement (Principle 9; the deception module's deceptiveIntentClaim is the adversarial special case). Grounds cn:MotivatedByGoal and atomic:xIntent at alignment time.

Structure

Property shape: object property; gmeow:IntentionalMoment -> gmeow:Event

Practical Pattern

Use gmeow:motivates from gmeow:IntentionalMoment to gmeow:Event when the relationship itself belongs in the native GMEOW graph.

Example Snippets

These snippets are generated from canonical slice examples and trimmed to the Turtle blocks where this term appears.

Goal And Intention

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example: goals, intentions, and commitments. GMEOW separates the
# intentional moments gUFO keeps distinct: a gmeow:Goal is the SocialObject an
# agent aims at (gmeow:hasGoal); a gmeow:Intention is an intentional MODE borne by
# an agent that aims at that goal (gmeow:intentionGoal) and MOTIVATES concrete
# action (gmeow:motivates → an Event); a gmeow:Commitment is a relator binding a
# committed agent to a beneficiary. The desire-to / intend-to / commit-to layers
# are not collapsed — each is its own first-class moment.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/teleology/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .
@prefix xsd:   <http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#> .

# --- The intention: an intentional mode borne by Dana, aimed at the goal, that
#     motivates a concrete action (the graduation event).
ex:intention a gmeow:Intention ;
    gmeow:intentBearer  ex:dana ;
    gmeow:intentionGoal ex:degreeGoal ;
    gmeow:motivates     ex:graduation .

Known Unknown

# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2026 Blackcat Informatics® Inc. <paudley@blackcatinformatics.ca>
# SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-4.0
#
# Worked example — a KNOWN-UNKNOWN that mints an inquiry, with NO new bridge term.
# Lillith recognises the boundary of her own knowledge (gmeow:awareOfNotKnowing),
# the second-order complement of the cognition knowledge spectrum. The recognised
# gap motivates a question by REUSING inquiry's open-domain gmeow:evokes (the
# not-known subject evokes the question) and the inquiry spine (gmeow:seeksToKnow)
# — there is no gmeow:motivates term (Principle 6), and the bridge to the inquiry
# slice is documented routing, not an entailment. This is the trustworthy-agent
# move: surfacing what it does not know as an open inquiry rather than confabulating.
@prefix gmeow: <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/> .
@prefix ex:    <https://blackcatinformatics.ca/gmeow/examples/metacognition/> .
@prefix rdfs:  <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#> .

Common Companion Terms

gmeow:IntentionalMoment, gmeow:Event

Usage Advice

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Examples

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