Predicate: transform

Roleset id: transform.01 , change, vncls: 26.6.1, framnet: Cause_change

transform.01: Based on big corpus. Member of Vncls turn-26.6.1. comparison with 'change'.

Roles:

        "Start state" and "thing changing" are usually the same, but there can be cases where they are separate. Reserve use of Arg3 for these cases.
        Arg0: causer of transformation (vnrole: 26.6.1-agent)
        Arg1: thing changing (vnrole: 26.6.1-patient)
        Arg2: end state (vnrole: 26.6.1-product)
        Arg3: start state (vnrole: 26.6.1-material)

Example: agentive

        The commercial transformed the dynamics of the campaign.

        Arg0: The commercial
        Rel: transformed
        Arg1: the dynamics of the campaign

Example: ergative

        ...customers whose addresses have transformed during the past 3 1/2 years.

        Arg1: whose addresses
        Rel: transformed
        Argm-tmp: during the past 3 1/2 years

Example: passive

        ...[the areas]-1 that can be most easily transformed *trace*-1

        Argm-mod: can
        Argm-mnr: most easily
        Rel: transformed
        Arg1: *trace*

Example: with end state

        ...erasures transformed wrong answers to right ones on a statewide test.

        Arg0: erasures
        Rel: transformed
        Arg1: wrong answers
        Arg2: to right ones
        Argm-loc: on a statewide test

Example: explicit start state

        Customers transform from borrowers to savers/investors.

        Arg1: Customers
        Rel: transform
        Arg3: from borrowers
        Arg2: to savers/investors