Predicate: aggravate
Frames file for 'aggravate' based on sentences in wsj. Verbnet
entry 31.1, Framenet entry Experiencer_obj.
Roleset id: aggravate.01 , make angry or worse, vncls: 31.1
Roles:
Arg0: causer
Arg1: thing getting angry or getting worse
Arg2: instrument, if separate from arg0
Example: all args
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
Several traders maintained that the Merc's 12-point
circuit-breaker aggravated the market slide Oct. 13 by directing
additional selling pressure to the floor of the New York Stock
Exchange.
Arg0 : the Merc's 12-point circuit-breaker
Rel : aggravated
Arg1 : the market slide Oct. 13
Arg2 : by directing additional selling pressure to the
floor of the New York Stock Exchange
Example: no instrument
person: third, tense: present, aspect: perfect, voice: active, form: participle
The Health Insurance Association of America, an insurers' trade
group, acknowledges that stiff competition among its members to
insure businesses likely to be good risks during the first year of
coverage has aggravated the problem in the small-business market.
Arg0 : stiff competition among its members to insure
businesses likely to be good risks during the first year of
coverage
Rel : aggravated
Arg1 : the problem in the small-business market
Example: as 'make angry'
person: third, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
John aggravates Mary with his mere presence.
Arg0 : John
Rel : aggravates
Arg1 : Mary
Arg2 : with his mere presence