Roleset roost.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "be like a bird":

Roles:

Arg0:bird

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: ns voice: ns form: infinitive


the one example (-)
It might be alleged that TV has done more than its share to popularize and promote non-violent civil disobedience, so the second situation hypothesized above would be simply a case of ``chickens coming home *trace* to roost.''
Arg0:	*trace* -> chickens
REL:	roost

Thank god we're avoiding the 'do agents always have intentionality' argument, or we'd have to argue about whether chickens have intentionality, which implies a degree of consciousness. Yucko.