Predicate: clock

clock: Frames file for 'clock' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No Verbnet entry, no Framenet entry. Comparison with measure.

Roleset id: clock.01 , measure the speed of something, vncls: 54.1, framnet:

clock.01: I doubt the "yardstick" argument will ever appear; it's largely subsumed within the verb. For comparison, my laptop (PIII/750Mhz) runs at almost 1500 MIPs.

Roles:

        Arg0: measurer (vnrole: 54.1-Agent)
        Arg1: thing measured (vnrole: 54.1-Theme)
        Arg2: yardstick, standard of measurement (clock)
        Arg3: measurement (vnrole: 54.1-Attribute)

Example: with measurement

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

        Intel clocks the chip's speed at 15 million instructions per
        second, or MIPs.

        Arg0: Intel
        Rel: clocks
        Arg1: the chip 's speed
        Arg3: at 15 million instructions per second , or MIPs

Roleset id: clock.02 , hit (on the head?), vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

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

Example: whack!

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

        We're going [*-2] to look for some of the better-known companies that
        [*T*-1]-3 got clocked [*-3]'' Friday.

        Rel: clocked
        Arg1:
        ArgM-RCL: that -> the better-known companies
        Argm-TMP: Friday