Predicate: focus
focus: Frames file for 'focus' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.
Roleset id: focus.01 , focus, concentrate, vncls: 87.1, framnet: Place_weight_on
focus.01: Member of VNcls focus-87.1
Roles:
The default arg1 is something like "its attention"
Arg0: agent, focusser (vnrole: 87.1-experiencer)
Arg1: thing focussed
Arg2: focussed-on (vnrole: 87.1-theme)
Example: all args
...will allow the U.S. auto maker to focus its resources on the
intensifying struggle with GM for a stake in Jaguar.
Arg0: the U.S. auto maker
Rel: focus
Arg1: its resources
Arg2: on the intensifying struggle with GM for a stake in Jaguar
Example: unstated thing focussed
Michael Carstens added that the sale of assets would allow Sea
Containers to focus on its core container businesses.
Arg0: Sea Containers
Rel: focus
Arg2: on its core container businesses
Example: unstated target of focus
He said the improvement was a result of ... *trace* focusing more
carefully the company's promotional activities.
Arg0: *trace*
Rel: focusing
Argm-mnr: more carefully
Arg1: the company's promotional activities
Example: passivized
Dealers said [most investor interest]-1 was focused *trace*-1 on defensive
blue-chip stocks, particularly those with limited U.K. exposure.
Rel: focused
Arg1: *trace*-1
Arg2: on defensive blue-chip stocks, particularly those with limited U.K. exposure
Example: ergative
person: third, tense: future, aspect: ns, voice: ns, form: infinitive
Is it your understanding that because Dover is a standard - based district , [the class instruction]-1 is going *PRO*-1 to focus on preparing students to achieve proficiency on those standard - based tests that we were just describing ?
Arg1: *PRO*-1
Rel: focus
Arg2: on preparing students to achieve proficiency on those standard - based tests that we were just describing