Frames file for 'mess' based on sentences in wsj. No Verbnet entry,
Framenet entry Bungling (mess up).
Roleset mess.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "mess with":
Roles:
Arg0:messer
Arg1:messed with
Examples:
don't mess with Texas (-)
person: ns
tense: present
aspect: ns
voice: active
form: gerund
Should they, too, stop [*-1] ``messing with'' his free market?
Arg0:
[*-1] -> they
REL:
messing
Arg1-with:
his free market
Predicate
mess_up:
Roleset mess.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "make a mess of":
Roles:
Arg0:causer/agent
Arg1:thing messed up
Examples:
now that's clever (-)
person: ns
tense: present
aspect: ns
voice: active
form: full
He said the Chaos Computer Club, of West Germany, once managed to
invade SPAN and do such things as change the value of
pi, [*] messing up some calculations.
Arg0:
[*]
REL:
[ messing] [ up]
Arg1:
some calculations
causer is properly the act of changing the value of pi.