Roleset collaborate.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "to work together":

Roles:

Arg0:focussed party, agent


Arg1:second party


Arg2:shared task

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: active form: infinitive


two arguments (-)
Du Pont Co. , Hewlett-Packard Co. and Los Alamos National Laboratory said [0] they signed a three-year , $ 11 million [*U*] agreement [*] to collaborate on superconductor research .
Arg0:	[*] -> they
REL:	collaborate
Arg2-on:	superconductor research

person: ns tense: present aspect: progressive voice: active form: participle


all arguments (-)
Already two major pharmaceutical companies , the Squibb unit of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. , are collaborating with gene hunters [*-1] to turn the anticipated cascade of discoveries into predictive tests and , maybe , new therapies .
ArgM-TMP:	Already
Arg0:	two major pharmaceutical companies , the Squibb unit of Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. and Hoffmann-La Roche Inc. ,
REL:	collaborating
Arg1-with:	gene hunters
Arg2:	[*-1] to turn the anticipated cascade of discoveries into predictive tests and , maybe , new therapies

person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full


all arguments with prepositional Arg2 (-)
Also Jonathan Silvers , who [*T*-1] collaborated with Mr. Hoffman on two books .
Arg0:	[*T*-1] -> who -> Jonathan Silvers
REL:	collaborated
Arg1-with:	Mr. Hoffman
Arg2-on:	two books