Predicate: beat

beat: Comparison with 'hit' and 'win'. beat 0.2 and beat 0.3 not in Levin missing classes shake 22.3, knead 26.5, crane 40.3.2 and sound emission 43.2

Roleset id: beat.01 , strike, vncls: 18.1, framnet:

beat.01: Frames file for 'beat' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. Verbnet classes hit-18.1-1, other framed members include: hit, strike; shake, squash, wind, work; append, attach, bind, collect, gather, roll.

Roles:

        Arg0: agent, hitter - animate only! (vnrole: 18.1-agent)
        Arg1: thing hit (vnrole: 18.1-patient)
        Arg2: instrument, thing hit by or with (vnrole: 18.1-instrument)

Example: violence

        Mary beat John with a wet noodle.

        Arg0: Mary
        Rel: beat
        Arg1: John
        Arg2: with a wet noodle

Roleset id: beat.02 , push, cause motion, vncls: , framnet:

beat.02: I have the feeling this will always occur as "beat down(ward)".

Roles:

        Arg0: causer of motion
        Arg1: thing moving
        Arg2: direction, destination

Example: all args, passivized

        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]-2 being relentlessly beaten *trace*-2
        downward by those seeking to profit from lower prices, namely
        short sellers.

        Arg1: *trace*-2
        Argm-mnr: relentlessly
        Rel: beaten
        Arg2-dir: downward
        Arg0: by those seeking to profit from lower prices, namely short sellers

Example: Heart beat

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

        Her beart was beating against her chest.

        Arg1: Her heart
        Rel: beating
        Arg2: against her chest

Roleset id: beat.03 , win over some competitor, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: winner
        Arg1: loser
        Arg2: competition

Example: no stated competition

        Now, after *trace* beating them, Mr. Achenbaum is joining them.

        Arg0: *trace* -> Mr. Achenbaum
        Rel: beating
        Arg1: them

Example: stated competition

        The product isn't widely used yet, but Toshiba, which [*T-1*] has
        already beaten everyone else in producing the current-generation
        one-megabit DRAMs...

        Argm-rcl: which -> Toshiba
        Arg0: [*T-1*]
        Argm-tmp: already
        Rel: beaten
        Arg1: everyone else
        Arg2: in producing the current-generation one-megabit DRAMs


Predicate: beat_out

beat_out: Same as "win" sense above.

Roleset id: beat.04 , win over some opponent, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: winner
        Arg1: loser
        Arg2: competition

Example: success!

        More recently, Guber Peters beat out a dozen other producers,
        reportedly including Robert Redford and Ted Turner, for rights to
        the life story of Chico Mendes, the murdered Brazilian union
        leader who fought developers in the Amazon rain forest.

        Argm-tmp: More recently
        Arg0: Guber Peters
        Rel: [ beat] [ out]
        Arg1: a dozen other producers, reportedly including Robert Redford and Ted Turner,
        Arg2: for rights to the life story of Chico Mendes, the murdered Brazilian union leader who fought developers in the Amazon rain forest


Predicate: beat_up

Roleset id: beat.05 , strike repeatedly, vncls: , framnet:

beat.05: Poor John. No corresponding VN class with verb particle construction.

Roles:

        Arg0: agent, hitter - animate only!
        Arg1: thing hit
        Arg2: instrument, thing hit by or with

Example: more violence

        Mary beats up John every day after school.

        Arg0: Mary
        Rel: beats up
        Arg1: John
        Argm-tmp: every day
        Argm-tmp: after school