Roleset certify.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "to confirm or declare":

Roles:

Arg0:confirmer, declarer, agent


Arg1:entity certified


Arg2:secondary predicate

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: active form: infinitive


transitive (-)
[*-1] Alarmed , state and federal authorities are trying [*-1] to devise ways [0] [*] to certify and regulate planners [*T*-2] .
Arg0:	[*] -> [*-1] -> state and federal authorities
REL:	certify
Arg1:	planners
ArgM-MNR:	[*T*-2] -> [0] -> ways

person: ns tense: past aspect: progressive voice: passive form: participle


passive (-)
Moscow , which [*T*-4] left the group in 1983 [*-5] to avoid explusion over allegations that political dissidents were being certified [*-2] as insane , could be suspended [*-1] if the misuse of psychiatry against dissenters is discovered [*-3] during a review within a year .
REL:	certified
Arg1:	[*-2] -> political dissidents
Arg2-as:	insane