Roleset cave.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "collapse":

Roles:

Arg1:thing caving

Examples:

person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full


shortened from cave in? (-)
When it threatened to use this provision as the test for a line-item veto, Congress caved.
ArgM-TMP:	When it threatened to use this provision as the test for a line-item veto
Arg1:	Congress
REL:	caved

Roleset cave.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "collapse, phrasal":

Roles:

Arg1:thing caving in

Examples:

person: ns tense: past aspect: ns voice: active form: full


typical usage (-)
That was the question structural engineers and California transportation officials were asking themselves yesterday as rescue workers began the gruesome task of trying to extract as many as 250 victims from beneath the concrete slabs of the double-deck Nimitz Freeway in Oakland that *trace* caved in during Tuesday's temblor.
Arg0:	*trace* -> that -> the double-deck Nimitz Freeway
REL:	[ caved] [ in]
ArgM-TMP:	during Tuesday's temblor