Roleset discuss.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "talk about":

Roles:

Arg0:discussant


Arg1:topic


Arg2:conversation partner, if explicit

Examples:

plain ol' transitive (-)
He declined *trace* to discuss other terms of the issue.
Arg0:	*trace* -> He
REL:	discuss
Arg1:	other terms of the issue




with arg2 (-)
John discussed the details of his parole with Mary.
Arg0:	John
REL:	discussed
Arg1:	the details of his parole
Arg2-with:	Mary

But:


merged args 0 and 2 (-)
John and Mary discussed the price of beans in China.
Arg0:	John and Mary
REL:	discussed
Arg1:	the price of beans in China

The conversation partner role can also be subsumed within the topic of conversation: "discussed an alliance with GM". Follow Treebank's parsing in these ambiguous cases.