Roleset evade.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "stay away from":

Roles:

Arg0:avoider


Arg1:thing avoided

Examples:

transitive (-)
The company is the subject of a federal grand jury investigation into whether its officials and its utility subsidiaries conspired *trace* to cover up their accounting for spare parts *trace* to evade federal income taxes.
Arg0:	*trace* -> *trace* -> its officials and its utility subsidiaries
REL:	evade
Arg1:	federal income taxes




oddly intransitive (-)
He evades and ducks .
Arg0:	He
REL:	evades

Etymologically, 'evade' and 'avoid' are not related at all. 'Avoid' comes from "to make empty" while 'evade' is 'to go out'. Interesting convergence, though.