Roleset understate.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "to state (a quantity, for example) that is too low":

Roles:

Arg0:stater


Arg1:entity understated


Arg2:quantity

Examples:

person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: passive form: participle


with Arg2 as PP (-)
The Commerce Department found that U.S. exports in 1988, net of imports, were understated [*-1] by $20.9 billion a year and understated [*-1] at the annualized rate of $25.4 billion in the first quarter of 1989.
REL:	understated
Arg1:	[*-1] -> U.S. exports in 1988, net of imports,
Arg2-by:	$20.9 billion a year

person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: passive form: participle


with Arg2 as different PP (-)
The Commerce Department found that U.S. exports in 1988, net of imports, were understated by $20.9 billion a year and understated [*-1] at the annualized rate of $25.4 billion in the first quarter of 1989.
REL:	understated
Arg1:	[*-1] -> U.S. exports in 1988, net of imports,
Arg2-at:	the annualized rate of $25.4 billion
ArgM-TMP:	in the first quarter of 1989

person: ns tense: present aspect: ns voice: active form: full
The "by" phrase should not be part of the arg1, but there's no good way to separate it out.

misparsed arg1 (-)
Our five-year plan contains three accounting devices--negative money, an above guidance management reserve and optimistic inflation estimates--which [*T*-1] understate the spending the Pentagon has committed itself to by almost $100 billion.
Arg0:	[*T*-1] -> which -> optimistic inflation estimates
REL:	understate
Arg1:	the spending [0] the Pentagon has committed itself to [*T*-2] by almost $ 100 billion [*U*]