Predicate: answer

answer: Frames file for 'answer' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.

Roleset id: answer.01 , give an answer, reply, vncls: , framnet: Communication_response

answer.01: No Vncls.

Roles:

        Arg1 actually conflates the roles "questioner" and "question"; these might have to be split at some point.
        Arg0: replier
        Arg1: in response to
        Arg2: answer

Example: straight transitive

        In a letter to [Georgia Gulf]-3 President Jerry R. Satrum, Mr. Martin
        asked Georgia Gulf *trace*-3 to answer its offer by Tuesday.

        Arg0: *trace*-3
        Rel: answer
        Arg1: its offer
        Argm-tmp: by Tuesday

Example: answer to

        Another proposed reform is to have program traders answer to an
        ``uptick rule'' a reform instituted after the Great Crash of 1929
        that protects against stocks being relentlessly beaten downward by
        those seeking to profit from lower prices, namely short sellers.

        Arg0: program traders
        Rel: answer
        Arg1: to an ``uptick rule'' a reform instituted after the Great Crash of 1929 that protects against stocks being relentlessly beaten downward by those seeking to profit from lower prices, namely short sellers

Example: with explicit answer

        ``[I've read Balzac]-1,'' he answers critics *trace*-1.

        Arg0: he
        Rel: answers
        Arg1: critics
        Arg2: *trace*-1