Roleset skip.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "to miss, omit or avoid":

Roles:

Arg0:omiter, skipper


Arg1:thing skipped

Examples:

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


transitive with a purpose (-)
[*-1] The son of a physicist , Mr. Hahn skipped first grade because his reading ability was so far above his classmates .
Arg0:	Mr. Hahn
REL:	skipped
Arg1:	first grade
ArgM-CAU:	because his reading ability was so far above his classmates

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


transitive with ArgM-Adv (-)
But [*-1] knowing that mechanics would probably ground him for repairs , Mr. Brown skipped his stop in nearby Chicago and set course [*-1] to get his load -- a few hundred parcels -- to the Memphis package-sorting hub on time .
ArgM-ADV:	[*-1] knowing that mechanics would probably ground him for repairs
Arg0:	Mr. Brown
REL:	skipped
Arg1:	his stop in nearby Chicago

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


simply transitive (-)
One of the best deals , though , may mean [*] skipping Christmas dinner with the relatives .
Arg0:	[*]
REL:	skipping
Arg1:	Christmas dinner with the relatives

Roleset skip.02 Verbnet Class: 1 "to move lighly, to jump":

Roles:

Arg0:one in motion

Examples:

not from the corpus (-)
John was skipping in the playground.
Arg0:	John
REL:	skipping
ArgM-LOC:	in the playground

Roleset skip.03 Verbnet Class: NONE "to leave quickly":

Roles:

Arg0:one in motion

Examples:

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


with direction (-)
When their changes are completed [*-137] [*T*-1] , and after they have worked up a sweat , ringers often skip off to the local pub , [*-2] leaving worship for others below .
Arg0:	ringers
ArgM-TMP:	often
REL:	[ skip] [ off]
ArgM-DIR:	to the local pub