Roleset melt.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "to change from a solid to a liquid state ":

Roles:

Arg0:agent


Arg1:thing melted

Examples:

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


transitive (-)
A substantial warming would melt some of the Earth 's polar ice caps , [*-1] raising the level of the oceans and causing widespread flooding of heavily populated coastal areas .
Arg0:	A substantial warming
ArgM-MOD:	would
REL:	melt
Arg1:	some of the Earth 's polar ice caps
ArgM-ADV:	[*-1] raising the level of the oceans and causing widespread flooding of heavily populated coastal areas

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


intransitive (-)
A partnership with a Williamsburg , Va. , unit of Shell Oil Co. recently patented a process for [*] producing plastic food containers that [*T*-1] wo n't melt in microwave ovens .
Arg1:	[*T*-1] -> that -> plastic food containers
ArgM-MOD:	wo
ArgM-NEG:	n't
REL:	melt
ArgM-LOC:	in microwave ovens