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I heard that when a non-living object does an action (verbs), it always uses the「が」particle, and when I searched for examples, it seems correct, since「は」always seems to be used as contrastive. However, after I learned about the Exhaustive and Neutral「が」, I don't know why the Neutral one is used here if it's not the Exhaustive:
車が壊れた。 タイヤがパンクした。
I also learned that intransitive verbs always use「が」(Or contrastive は) as well, so, how is it related to neutral「が」?
The use of が as a subject-marker is not limited to non-living entities. When a person performs an action, they are also marked with が. It can be transitive or intransitive. For example:
田中さん[subject] が 来ました。Mr Tanaka arrived. (intransitive)
田中さん[subject] が ピザを食べました。Mr Tanaka ate pizza. (transitive).
The distinction between using は (topic marker) or が (subject marker) has been discussed at length on the site.
