Roleset date.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "assign a calendar date":

Roles:

Arg0:assigner of date


Arg1:item being labelled


Arg2:date

Examples:

person: ns tense: present aspect: ns voice: passive form: participle


passive, point date (-)
Both issues are dated *trace* Oct. 31.
REL:	dated
Arg1:	*trace* -> Both issues
Arg2:	Oct. 31

person: ns tense: present aspect: ns voice: passive form: participle


same thing, missing trace (-)
The bills are dated Oct. 31 and mature Dec. 21, 1989.
Arg1:	The bills
REL:	dated
Arg2:	Oct. 31

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


date back to: separated (-)
Federal credit programs date back to the New Deal, and were meant to break even financially.
Arg1:	Federal credit programs
REL:	date
ArgM-DIR:	back
Arg2-to:	the New Deal

person: ns tense: ns aspect: progressive voice: active form: participle


date back to: joined (-)
Mr. Seidman told the committee that the Resolution Trust Corp., the agency created to sell sick thrifts, has studied Lincoln's examination reports by former regulators dating back to 1986.
Arg1:	Lincoln's examination reports by former regulators
REL:	dating
Arg2:	back to 1986

person: ns tense: ns aspect: progressive voice: active form: participle


passive: terminus post quem (-)
Next month, NASA plans to launch a satellite to study cosmic rays dating from the birth of the universe.
Arg1:	cosmic rays
REL:	dating
Arg2-from:	the birth of the universe

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


with agent (-)
John dated the contents of his fridge to the early 1960's.
Arg0:	John
REL:	dated
Arg1:	the contents of his fridge
Arg2-to:	the early 1960's

Treebank gives an unbelievable range of syntaces for sentences containing 'date'. This should be a high priority for fixing, once we get the go-ahead to fix Tb.

Roleset date.02 Verbnet Class: 1 "date romantically":

Roles:

Arg0:dater


Arg1:dated

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: progressive voice: active form: participle


as opposed to? (-)
The book loses some momentum toward the end, when Lily becomes more preoccupied with *trace* dating boys and less with her delightfully weird family.
Arg0:	*trace* -> Lily
REL:	dating
Arg1:	boys