Predicate: bet

bet: Frames file for 'bet' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. VerbNet classes bill-54.5, rely-70, risk-94. No comparison.

Roleset id: bet.01 , wager, vncls: 54.5 94 70, framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: better (vnrole: 54.5-agent, 94-agent, 70-agent)
        Arg1: amount of bet (vnrole: 54.5-asset, 94-theme)
        Arg2: basis, proposition, bet-on (vnrole: 70-theme)
        Arg3: co-better (vnrole: 54.5-recipient)

Example: nominal proposition

        [Speculative]-1 investors, *trace*-1 betting on an imminent clash
        between Ford and GM, pushed up Jaguar's share price...

        Arg0: *trace*-1
        Rel: betting
        Arg2: on an imminent clash between Ford and GM

Example: with amount

        That would be a huge problem if it were to continue, because
        Unisys is betting its business on the assumption that customers
        want to move away from using operating systems that run on only
        one manufacturer's equipment and toward systems -- mainly Unix --
        that work on almost anyone's machines.

        Arg0: Unisys
        Rel: betting
        Arg1: its business
        Arg2: on the assumption that customers want to move away from using operating systems that run on only one manufacturer's equipment and toward systems -- mainly Unix -- that work on almost anyone's machines

Example: sentential proposition

        That indicates speculators are betting a higher offer is in the
        wings.

        Arg0: speculators
        Rel: betting
        Arg2: a higher offer is in the wings

Example: sentential proposition and dollar amount

        John bet his life that the stock market would never go down.

        Arg0: John
        Rel: bet
        Arg1: his life
        Arg2: that the stock market would never go down

Example: with co-better

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

        Two years ago , a Canadian reader bet Omni Magazine $ 1,000 [*U*] that it could n't debunk the uncanny goings-on in `` the Oregon Vortex , '' a former Indian burial ground in southern Oregon .

        Argm-tmp: Two years ago
        Arg0: a Canadian reader
        Rel: bet
        Arg3: Omni Magazine
        Arg1: $ 1,000 [*U*]
        Arg2: that it could n't debunk the uncanny goings-on in `` the Oregon Vortex , '' a former Indian burial ground in southern Oregon