Roleset offset.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "balance out, lessen the impact of":

Roles:

Arg0:intentional agent


Arg1:thing whose impact we want to lessen


Arg2:balanced by

Examples:

with agentive subject (-)
*trace* To offset sluggish sales growth, companies have been cutting staff, mostly through attrition, and slowing the growth in research and development spending.
Arg0:	*trace* -> companies
REL:	offset
Arg1:	sluggish sales growth




instrumental subject (-)
Earnings at Xerox's financial-services operations actually rose slightly, but that was largely because capital gains at Crum & Forster offset Hurricane Hugo payments and the reserves set up to cover future payments.
Arg2:	capital gains at Crum & Forster
REL:	offset
Arg1:	Hurricane Hugo payments and the reserves set up to cover future payments




passivized instrumental subject (-)
The charges were offset *trace* in part by a gain from the sale of the company's construction division.
REL:	offset
Arg1:	*trace* -> The charges
ArgM-MNR:	in part
Arg2-by:	a gain from the sale of the company's construction division