Frameset - downgrade-v

Predicate: downgrade

downgrade: Frames file for 'downgrade' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. No Verbnet entry. Reversal of 'upgrade'.

Roleset id: downgrade.01 , replace, vncls: , framnet:

Roles:

        Arg0: replacer
        Arg1: old thing
        Arg2: new thing

Example: all args

        Edward M. Esber attributed the decline to reduced domestic revenue
        because of $4.9 million spent *trace* to downgrade existing software
        inventories to the new database IV Version 1.1.

        Arg0:
        Rel: downgrade
        Arg1: existing software inventories
        Arg2: to the new database IV Version 1.1

Roleset id: downgrade.02 , worsen, vncls: , framnet:

downgrade.02: The 'improve' sense is really the same as the 'replace' sense with the two objective arguments merged.

Roles:

        Arg0: causer of worsening, agent
        Arg1: thing worsening
        Arg2: amount, EXT
        Arg3: start point
        Arg4: end point

Example: transitive

        Recently it downgraded its plants so that it could make
        stain-resistant products with higher quality dyes.

        ArgM-TMP: Recently
        Arg0: it
        Rel: downgraded
        Arg1: its plants
        ArgM-PNC: so that it could make stain-resistant products with higher quality dyes