Predicate: understate
Frames file for 'understate' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ
corpus.
Roleset id: understate.01 , to state (a quantity, for example) that is too low, vncls: -
Roles:
Arg0: stater
Arg1: entity understated
Arg2: quantity
Example: with Arg2 as PP
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: passive, form: participle
The Commerce Department found that [U.S. exports in 1988, net of
imports,]-1 were understated [*-1] by $20.9 billion a year and
understated [*-1] at the annualized rate of $25.4 billion in the
first quarter of 1989.
Rel : understated
Arg1 : [*-1]
Arg2 : by $20.9 billion a year
Example: with Arg2 as different PP
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: passive, form: participle
The Commerce Department found that [U.S. exports in 1988, net of
imports,]-1 were understated by $20.9 billion a year and understated
[*-1] at the annualized rate of $25.4 billion in the first
quarter of 1989.
Rel : understated
Arg1 : [*-1]
Arg2 : at the annualized rate of $25.4 billion
ArgM-TMP : in the first quarter of 1989
Example: misparsed arg1
person: ns, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
Our five-year plan contains three accounting devices--negative
money, an above guidance management reserve and optimistic
inflation estimates--which [*T*-1] understate the spending the
Pentagon has committed itself to by almost $100 billion.
ArgM-RCL : which -> optimistic inflation estimates
Arg0 : [*T*-1]
Rel : understate
Arg1 : the spending [0] the Pentagon has committed itself to [*T*-2] by almost $ 100 billion [*U*]