Predicate: downgrade

Roleset id: downgrade.01 , replace, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

downgrade.01: DOWNGRADE-V NOTES: Frames file for 'downgrade' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No Verbnet entry. Reversal of 'upgrade'. (from downgrade.01-v predicate notes)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
downgrade (v.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: replacer
        Arg1-PPT: old thing
        Arg2-PPT: new thing

Example: all args

        Edward M. Esber attributed the decline to reduced domestic revenue because of $4.9 million spent *trace* to downgrade existing software inventories to the new database IV Version 1.1.

        Arg0:
        Rel: downgrade
        Arg1: existing software inventories
        Arg2: to the new database IV Version 1.1

Roleset id: downgrade.02 , worsen, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

downgrade.02: DOWNGRADE-V NOTES: The 'improve' sense is really the same as the 'replace' sense with thetwo objective arguments merged. (from downgrade.02-v)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
downgrade (v.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: causer of worsening, agent
        Arg1-PPT: thing worsening
        Arg2-EXT: amount, EXT
        Arg3-DIR: start point
        Arg4-GOL: end point

Example: transitive

        Recently it downgraded its plants so that it could make stain-resistant products with higher quality dyes.

        Argm-tmp: Recently
        Arg0: it
        Rel: downgraded
        Arg1: its plants
        Argm-pnc: so that it could make stain-resistant products with higher quality dyes