Frameset

Predicate pass:

Frames file for 'pass' based on survey of initial sentences of big corpus and comparison with 'fail', 'give', 'send', and reference to verbnet classes give-13.1, send-11.1, and throw-17.1. There are probably a million senses and phrasals I've missed; the syntax tends to be pretty straightforward, so if you encounter them while tagging just go ahead and add them.

Roleset pass.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "bill becomes law":

Roles:

Arg0:legislative body

Arg1:bill, state prior to passing

Arg2:law, state after passing

Examples:

passive (-)
`The Senate-House conference committee is used when a bill is passed trace by the House and Senate in different forms.`
Arg1:	trace=a bill
REL:	passed
Arg0-by:	the House and Senate
Argm-MNR:	in different forms

distinguishing arg1 from arg2 (-)
John passed the bill into law.

Arg0: John

REL: passed

Arg1: the bill

Arg2-into: law

distinguishing arg1 from arg2 (-)
`John passed the bill into law.`
Arg0:	John
REL:	passed
Arg1:	the bill
Arg2-into:	law

Roleset pass.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "overtake":

Roles:

Arg0:entity moving ahead

Arg1:entity falling behind

Examples:

transitive (-)
`A couple of my law clerks were going trace to pass me in three or four years.`
Arg0:	trace=A couple of my law clerks
REL:	pass
Arg1:	me
Argm-TMP:	in three or four years.

Roleset pass.03 Verbnet Class: NONE "go by":

Roles:

Arg1:thing passing

Examples:

time passes (-)
`Hardly a day passes without news photos of the police dragging limp protestors from some building.`
Arg1:	Hardly a day
REL:	passes
Argm-ADV:	without news photos of the police dragging limp protestors from some building

Roleset pass.04 Verbnet Class: NONE "allow to go by":

Roles:

Arg0:allower

Arg1:thing let go by

Examples:

no object (-)
`Faced with a losing poker hand, John passed.`
Argm-ADV:	Faced with a losing poker hand
Arg0:	John
REL:	passed

NP object (-)
Warner has passed *trace*, or chosen not to produce, at least 76.

Arg0: Warner

REL: passed

Arg1: *trace*=at least 76

NP object (-)
`Warner has passed trace, or chosen not to produce, at least 76.`
Arg0:	Warner
REL:	passed
Arg1:	trace=at least 76

PP object (-)
John passed on the opportunity to go spelunking.

Arg0: John

REL: passed

Arg1-on: the opportunity to go spelunking

PP object (-)
`John passed on the opportunity to go spelunking.`
Arg0:	John
REL:	passed
Arg1-on:	the opportunity to go spelunking

Roleset pass.05 Verbnet Class: 1 "give":

Roles:

Arg0:giver

Arg1:thing changing hands

Arg2:getter

Examples:

idiomatic meaning, compositional syntax (-)
`He is just passing the buck to young people.`
Arg0:	He
Argm-DIS:	just
REL:	passing
Arg1:	the buck
Arg2-to:	young people

Similarly "pass_along", which is often misparsed in Treebank.

Roleset pass.06 Verbnet Class: NONE "suffice, get away (with)":

Roles:

Arg1:thing passing

Arg2:attributive

Examples:

pass for (-)
`...the claptrap that trace passes for consensus in various international institutions.`
Arg1:	trace=that=the claptrap
REL:	passes
Arg2-for:	consensus
Argm-LOC:	in various international institutions.

Can also be "pass as"

Roleset pass.07 Verbnet Class: NONE "pass a class, pass a test":

Roles:

Arg1:student

Arg2:test

Examples:

success! (-)
`The number of balloonists who trace have passed a Federal Aviation Authority lighter-than-air test has doubled in the last year.`
Arg1:	trace=who=The number of balloonists
REL:	passed
Arg2:	a Federal Aviation Authority lighter-than-air test

One presumes the test itself is not lighter than air.

Roleset pass.08 Verbnet Class: NONE "variety of idioms":

Roles:

Arg0:passer

Arg1:thing passed

Examples:

one of many (-)
`Many are far enough from residential areas trace to pass public muster.`
Arg0:	trace=Many
REL:	pass
Arg1:	public muster

Similarly "pass gas", etc.

Predicate pass_on:

Roleset pass.09 Verbnet Class: 1 "give":

Roles:

Arg0:giver

Arg1:thing changing hands

Arg2:getter

Examples:

give (-)
`Insurers typically pass on a small percentage of the risks they underwrite (to their customers).`
Arg0:	Insurers
Argm-TMP:	typically
REL:	pass on
Arg1:	a small percentage of the risks they underwrite
Arg2-to:	their customers

Predicate pass_out:

Roleset pass.10 Verbnet Class: 1 "distribute":

Roles:

Arg0:distributor

Arg1:thing distributed

Arg2:distributed to

Examples:

passive (-)
`The test booklets were passed trace out 48 hours ahead of time.`
Arg1:	trace=The test booklets
REL:	passed out
Argm-TMP:	48 hours ahead of time

Roleset pass.11 Verbnet Class: NONE "faint":

Roles:

Arg0:fainter

Examples:

sexist, sorry (-)
`Mary passes out at the sight of blood.`
Arg0:	Mary
REL:	passes out
Argm-TMP:	at the sight of blood

Predicate pass_over:

Roleset pass.12 Verbnet Class: NONE "ignore, leave behind":

Roles:

Arg0:ignorer

Arg1:thing ignored

Examples:

transitive active (-)
`...a small French merchant bank that Deutsche Bank had looked at and passed trace over.`
Arg0:	Deutsche Bank
REL:	passed over
Arg1:	trace=that=a small French merchant bank

Predicate pass_up:

Roleset pass.13 Verbnet Class: NONE "relinquish":

Roles:

Arg0:entity relinquishing one item

Arg1:item relinquished

Arg2:in favor of another

Examples:

transitive (-)
`Gorbachev is unlikely trace to pass up the opportunity to press once again for negotiated cuts in the navies of both nations.`
Arg0:	trace=Gorbachev
REL:	pass up
Arg1:	the opportunity to press once again for negotiated cuts in the navies of both nations

Similarly "pass_by"

Predicate pass_on:

Roleset pass.14 Verbnet Class: 1 "transmit":

Roles:

Arg0:transmitter

Arg1:thing transmitted

Arg2:transmitted to

Examples:

passive (-)
`Both the costs and the savings could be passed on to shippers on the TransCanada pipeline.`
Arg1:	Both the costs and the savings
Argm-MOD:	could
REL:	passed on
Arg2-to:	shippers on the TransCanada pipeline.

Roleset pass.15 Verbnet Class: NONE "die":

Roles:

Arg1:thing dying

Examples:

so sorry (-)
`John's cat passed on last week.`
Arg1:	John's cat
REL:	passed on
Argm-TMP:	last week

Similarly "pass" and "pass_away"