Predicate: sterilize

Roleset id: sterilize.01 , to make free from live bacteria, to make inoffensive, unable to reproduce, inoffensive, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

sterilize.01: STERILIZE-V NOTES: Based on WSJ. Member of Vncls other_cos-45.4. (from sterilize.01-v) STERILIZATION-N NOTES: Added by Julia based on BOLT. Corresponds to Vncls other_cos-45.4. (from sterilization.01-n)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
sterilize (v.)
sterilization (n.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: sterilizer (vnrole: 45.4-agent)
        Arg1-GOL: entity sterilized (vnrole: 45.4-patient)
        Arg2-PPT: germs removed

Example: transitive

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: progressive,  voice: active,  form: infinitive

        The Fed has been intervening in foreign currency markets , all right , but through August , at least , it-1 appeared [*-1] to be `` sterilizing '' the intervention .

        Arg0: [*-1]
        Rel: sterilizing
        Arg1: the intervention

Example: with MNR

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

        China 's record on human rights is appalling look at the one child policy that is causing major gender imbalance problems as well as being brutally implemented , forced sterliseation and such .

        Argm-mnr: forced
        Rel: sterliseation

Example: both args

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

        The 1975 case Madrigal v. Quilligan challenged the state sterilization of Spanish speaking Mexican women who medical personnel coerced into signing English language forms that they could not read.

        Arg0: state
        Rel: sterilization
        Arg1: of Spanish speaking Mexican women who medical personnel coerced into signing English language forms that they could not read


Predicate: sterile

Roleset id: sterile.02 , inhospitible to the growth of life, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

sterile.02: STERILE-J NOTES: Added by Julia based on BOLT-2,3 (from sterile.01-j)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
sterile (j.)

Roles:

        Arg1-LOC: sterile location/entity
        Arg2-PPT: new life

Example: arg1

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

        The life we see around us evolved in this Universe as conditions allowed , so it 's not surprising at all that everything fits nicely . Other Universes with different rules would necessarily have life in them which fits that universe . And Universes which-1 [*-1] are sterile have no life in them to question the fact that they are not there .

        Arg1: [*-1]
        Rel: sterile

Example: botha rgs

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

        Re-applying it too often can make the soil sterile to new plant growth.

        Arg1: the soil
        Rel: sterile
        Arg2: to new plant growth