Predicate: square
square: Frames file for 'square' based on sentences in financial subcorpus.
No Verbnet entry.
Roleset id: square.01 , set to rights, arrange properly, vncls: 89, framnet:
square.01: VN class settle-89.
Roles:
Arg0: cause of rightness, agent (vnrole: 89-actor)
Arg1: thing being set to rights (vnrole: 89-proposition)
Example: deplorable grammar
person: ns, tense: ns, aspect: ns, voice: ns, form: infinitive
They said contributing to the downward drift was the fact that
[many professional traders]-1 had chosen *trace*-1 to square positions
ahead of the weekend.
Arg0: *trace*
Rel: square
Arg1: positions
Argm-tmp: ahead of the weekend
Roleset id: square.02 , mathematics, vncls: , framnet:
square.02: I actually doubt the result argument would ever occur. That sounds
really odd to me.
Roles:
Arg0: mathematician
Arg1: number
Arg2: result
Example: failing grade
person: ns, tense: past, aspect: ns, voice: active, form: full
John squared three to ten.
Arg0: John
Rel: squared
Arg1: three
Arg2: to ten
Predicate: square_off
Roleset id: square.03 , compete, vncls: , framnet:
Roles:
Arg0: causal agent
Arg1: competitor
Arg2: opponent
Arg3: prize
Example: active
Here causal agent and first competitor are merged.
person: ns, tense: present, aspect: progressive, voice: active, form: participle
Not only are Japan's financial institutions putting their
enormous clot to work; increasingly they're squaring off against
one another in unprecedented public fashion.
Argm-tmp: increasingly
Arg0: they
Rel: squaring off
Arg2: against one another
Argm-mnr: in unprecedented public fashion
Example: (pseudo?)passive
person: third, tense: present, aspect: ns, voice: passive, form: participle
The restyled 300ZX costs as much as $33,000 and is squared off
against the Porsche 944, which begins at $41,900.
Arg1: The restyled 300ZX
Rel: squared off
Arg2: against the Porsche 944, which begins at $41,900