Predicate: improve
improve: Frames file for 'improve' based on survey of initial sentences of
big corpus.
Roleset id: improve.01 , make better, vncls: 45.4, framnet: Cause_to_make_progress
Roles:
Arg0: improver (vnrole: 45.4-agent)
Arg1: thing improving (vnrole: 45.4-patient)
Example: agentive
...if they don't improve their protection of intellectual property
by next spring.
Arg0: they
Argm-neg: n't
Rel: improve
Arg1: their protection of intellectual property
Argm-tmp: by next spring
Example: how?
Taiwan has improved its standing with the US by initialing a
bilateral copyright agreement.
Arg0: Taiwan
Rel: improved
Arg1: its standing with the US
Argm-mnr: by initialing a bilateral copyright agreement.
Example: ergative
Business conditions will improve in the coming six months.
Arg1: Business conditions
Argm-mod: will
Rel: improve
Argm-tmp: in the coming six months
Example: unstated thing improving
I'm reading this as "Dow will improve its performance past its
year-ago net". One could argue that this is a separate sense, but
since only a slight paraphrase renders it into the "make better"
sense, we'll leave it here for the moment.
Dow will improve on its year-ago fourth-quarter net of $3.44 a share.
Arg0: Dow
Argm-mod: will
Rel: improve
Arg1: on its year-ago fourth-quarter net of $3.44 a share
Roleset id: improve.02 , add, rise, vncls: 45.4, framnet:
improve.02: There's also a nice example of the two senses merging: "Ekco [is] to
improve on-time delivery of orders to about 95% from around 70%."
Roles:
Arg1: Logical subject, patient, thing rising (vnrole: 45.4-patient)
Arg2: EXT, amount risen
Arg3: start point
Arg4: end point
Argm: medium
Example: should have seen this coming
National Market System volume improved to 94,425,00 shares from 71.7
million Monday.
Arg1: National Market System volume
Rel: improved
Arg4: to 94,425,00 shares
Arg3: from 71.7 million Monday.