Predicate: prevent

Roleset id: prevent.01 , stop, prevent, stopping in advance, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

prevent.01: PREVENT-V NOTES: Note that the instrument can appear in subject position as well("Minumum roof-crush standards could prevent many of thesefatalities.") This means there is a de facto intentionality oranimacy criterion for agenthood. (from prevent.01-v) PREVENTION-N NOTES: prevent.01 (from prevention.01-n)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
prevention (n.)
prevent (v.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: Agent, intentional/animate (vnrole: 67-agent)
        Arg1-PPT: Theme (action or object being prevented) (vnrole: 67-theme)
        Arg2-PPT: secondary predication or action (vnrole: 67-theme)
        Arg3-MNR: instrument

Example: simple transitive

        She-1 wanted *trace*-1 to prevent the damage to self-esteem that her low-ability students would suffer from doing badly on the test.

        Arg0: *trace*
        Rel: prevent
        Arg1: the damage to self-esteem that her low-ability students would suffer from doing badly on the test

Example: secondary predicate

        Lawyers-1 seek *trace-1* to prevent the client from *trace-2* committing a criminal act.

        Arg0: *trace-1*
        Rel: prevent
        Arg1: the client
        Arg2-from: *trace-2* committing a criminal act.

Example: with instrument

        We could prevent many of these fatalities with minimum roof-crush standards.

        Arg0: We
        Argm-mod: could
        Rel: prevent
        Arg1: many of these fatalities
        Arg3: with minimum roof-crush standards.

Example: instrument as subject

        person: third,  tense: past,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: participle

        Steel jackets of a type that-1 *trace*-1may have prevented collapse of the columns of a 1.5-mile stretch of the Nimitz Freeway had been installed on at least a small test section of the double - decker highway

        Arg3: *trace*-1: that (steel jackets)
        Argm-mod: may
        Rel: prevented
        Arg1: collapse of the columns of a 1.5-mile stretch of the Nimitz Freeway

Example: Instrument (Arg3) as Subject

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        Among those projects is green teas and their prevention of liver cancer.

        Arg3: their
        Rel: prevention
        Arg1: of liver cancer