Frames file for 'ferret' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ
corpus.
Roleset ferret.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "to search and discover through persistent investigation":
Roles:
Arg0:entity exploring, searching, agent
Arg1:thing discovered
Examples:
transitive (-)
person: ns
tense: ns
aspect: ns
voice: active
form: gerund
Back then , scientists had no way of [*] ferreting out specific genes , but under a microscope they could see the 23 pairs of chromosomes in the cells that [*T*-1] contain the genes .