Roleset hack.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "chop sloppily":

Roles:

Arg0:chopper


Arg1:chopped


Arg2:instrument (ax, etc)

Examples:

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


table manners (-)
John hacked at the expensive cut of beef with a butter knife.
Arg0:	John
REL:	hacked
Arg1-at:	the expensive cut of beef
Arg2-with:	a butter knife

Roleset hack.03 Verbnet Class: 1 "remove pieces":

Roles:

Arg0:cutter


Arg1:thing cut


Arg2:medium, source


Arg3:instrument

Examples:

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


bad haircut (-)
John hacked great chunks of hair from his back with safety scissors.
Arg0:	John
REL:	hacked
Arg1:	great chunks of hair
Arg2-from:	his back
Arg3-with:	safety scissors

EEEEEEWWWWW!

Roleset hack.04 Verbnet Class: NONE "computer work":

Roles:

Arg0:hacker


Arg1:target or project

Examples:

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


probably legal (-)
John spent all night *trace* hacking his artificial intelligence program.
Arg0:	*trace* -> John
REL:	hacking
Arg1:	his artificial intelligence program

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


probably not (-)
John hacked into the FBI's mainframe. The Fairmount Bagel Institute, that is.
Arg0:	John
REL:	hacked
Arg1-into:	the FBI's mainframe

The Fairmount Bagel Institute is a real business, btw, or at least used to be.

Roleset hack.05 Verbnet Class: NONE "cough":

Roles:

Arg0:cougher

Examples:

person: third tense: past aspect: progressive voice: active form: participle


poor John (-)
John was hacking all night.
Arg0:	John
REL:	hacking
Argm-TMP:	all night

Roleset hack.02 Verbnet Class: 1 "chop sloppily, phrasal":

Roles:

Arg0:chopper


Arg1:chopped


Arg2:instrument (ax, etc)

Examples:

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


the one corpus example (-)
Mr. Wathen says his turnaround strategy has been simple: *trace* just hack away at the fat.
Arg0:	*trace*
ArgM-DIS:	just
REL:	[ hack] [ away]
Arg1-at:	the fat