an evaluative event in which a positive evaluative judgment about a proposition expressed by the complement of the commentative event is made, and there is a neutral epistemic stance by the speaker toward the proposition. Example: in Jill hopes that Joe won the election, the commentative predicate hopes expresses Jill's evaluation of Joe's winning the election, and also presupposes that the speaker does not know whether Joe has won the election. (Section 18.2.2)