Roleset probe.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "examine internally, closely":

Roles:

Arg0:prober


Arg1:thing probed


Arg2:in search of

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: ns form: gerund


intransitive (-)
*trace* Probing with the stimulators, National Institutes of Health scientists recently showed how the brain reorganizes motor-control resources after an amputation.
REL:	Probing
ArgM-MNR:	with the stimulators
Arg0:	*trace* -> National Institutes of Health scientists

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


transitive (-)
Mechanized vacuum cleaners probe the sand like giant anteaters; a whirring ferris wheellike excavator, with buckets instead of seats, chews through layers of compacted sand; tracks and conveyor belts, shuttling sand to the screening plants, criss-cross the beach.
Arg0:	Mechanized vacuum cleaners
REL:	probe
Arg1:	the sand
ArgM-MNR:	like giant anteaters

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


that's not very nice (-)
Mary probed John's brain for some scrap of good sense.
Arg0:	Mary
REL:	probed
Arg1:	John's brain
Arg2-for:	some scrap of good sense

There was a joke here about alien abductions, but I decided not to go there.