Predicate: single_out

single_out: Frames file for 'single_out' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.

Roleset id: single.01 , pick just one, vncls: , framnet: -

single.01: Comparison to 'pick'. No Vncls. Updated by Julia, 11/2010.

Roles:

        Arg0: picker
        Arg1: the one
        Arg2: group
        Arg3: attribute

Example: boring transitive

        Also, investors quickly singled out stocks of companies expected
        to profit or suffer from the disaster.

        Argm-dis: Also
        Arg0: investors
        Argm-mnr: quickly
        Rel: [ singled] [ out]
        Arg1: stocks of companies expected to profit or suffer from the disaster

Example: passive, with attribute

        The graphics business, which-1 [*trace*-1]-2 also was singled out *trace*-2
        by the chairman as a positive, saw its operating earnings for the
        quarter jump 79% to $42.1 million from $23.5 million.

        Argm-dis: also
        Rel: [ singled] [ out]
        Arg1: *trace*-2 (= *trace*-1 = which)
        Argm-slc: which -> The graphics business
        Arg0: by the chairman
        Arg3: as a positive

Example: Passive with args 1, 2 & 3

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        [The man]-1 was singled out *trace*-1 from the throng of Russian visionaries as "the man with a program" .

        Rel: [singled] [out]
        Arg1: *trace*-1
        Arg2: from the throng of Russian visionaries
        Arg3: as "the man with a program"