Predicate: contaminate
contaminate: Frames file for 'contaminate' based on sentences in financial
subcorpus. Verbnet entry fill-9.8, other framed members include
spot, surround, trim, soak.
Roleset id: contaminate.01 , befoul, vncls: 9.8, framnet:
contaminate.01: Do try to distinguish between agent/source of contamination and the
contaminant itself; this will result in some Arg2's being subjects.
Roles:
Arg0: causer of contamination (vnrole: 9.8-Agent)
Arg1: thing becoming contaminated (vnrole: 9.8-Destination)
Arg2: contaminant (vnrole: 9.8-Theme)
Example: transitive
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: perfect, voice: active, form: participle
At stake was an $80,000 settlement involving who should pay what
share of cleanup costs at the site of a former gas station, where
underground fuel tanks had leaked and contaminated the soil.
Arg0: underground fuel tanks
Rel: contaminated
Arg1: the soil
Example: with contaminant
person: third, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
John contaminates any room he enters with his foul stench.
Arg0: John
Rel: contaminates
Arg1: any room he enters
Arg2: with his foul stench