Predicate: understate

Roleset id: understate.01 , minimally state (such as reporting a quantity at a level too low), Source: , vncls: , framnet:

understate.01: UNDERSTATE-V NOTES: No Vncls. (from understate.01-v) UNDERSTATEMENT-N NOTES: Based on ontonotes nouns. Comparison with understate.01-v. No VN or FN classess. Framed by Katie. (from understatement.01-n)

Aliases:

AliasFrameNetVerbNet
understate (v.)
understatement (n.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: stater
        Arg1-PPT: entity understated
        Arg2-EXT: quantity

Example: with Arg2 as PP

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

        The Commerce Department found that [U.S. exports in 1988, net of imports,]-1 were understated [*-1]by $20.9 billion a year

        Rel: understated
        Arg1: [*-1]
        Arg2: by $20.9 billion a year

Example: with Arg2 as different PP

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

        The Commerce Department found that [U.S. exports in 1988, net of imports,]-1 were understated [*-1]at the annualized rate of $25.4 billion in the first quarter of 1989.

        Rel: understated
        Arg1: [*-1]
        Arg2: at the annualized rate of $25.4 billion
        Argm-tmp: in the first quarter of 1989

Example: misparsed arg1

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

        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.

        Argm-slc: which -> optimistic inflation estimates
        Arg0: [*T*-1] (= which)
        Rel: understate
        Arg1: the spending [0] the Pentagon has committed itself to [*T*-2]by almost $ 100 billion [*U*]

Example: args 1 and 2

        a 0.7 percentage point understatement in growth of total real GNP

        Arg2: 0.7 percentage point
        Rel: understatement
        Arg1: in growth of the total real GNP