Let's see if we can't sort out the confusion in these comments. There's some good discussion of this in
The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (p.79). Here are three examples: ①
It was broken deliberately, out of spite. [past participle form of verb] ②
It didn't look broken to me. [past-participial adjective] ③
It was broken. [ambiguous] They write: "The verb
broken in ① denotes an event, while the adjective
broken in ② denotes a state – and the ambiguity of ③ lies precisely in the fact that it can be interpreted in either of these ways. —
snailboat 3 mins ago