Roleset reproduce.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "copy":

Roles:

Arg0:copier, agent


Arg1:original

Examples:

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


active (-)
Twenty years later, two California academics, Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer, made ``recombinant'' DNA, transplanting a toad's gene into bacteria, which then *trace* reproduced toad genes.
ArgM-TMP:	then
Arg0:	*trace* -> which -> bacteria
REL:	reproduced
Arg1:	toad genes

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: passive form: participle
That just doesn't scan at all.

passive, poetry (-)
The effete Tyrannosaurus Rex / Had strict Cretaceous views on sex, / And that is why you only see him / Reproduced in the museum.
REL:	Reproduced
Arg1:	*trace* -> him
ArgM-LOC:	in the museum