Roleset taste.01 Verbnet Class: 1 "use one's tastebuds":

Roles:

Arg0:taster


Arg1:food

Examples:

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


nasty trace chains (-)
``Parties are rather a state of mind, '' she said, [*-3] pausing only [*-4] to taste [*RNR*-1] and pass judgment on the Georgian shashlik (``a little well done, but very good'').
ArgM-DIS:	only
Arg0:	[*-4] -> [*-3] -> she
REL:	taste
Arg1:	[*RNR*-1] -> the Georgian shashlik

Roleset taste.02 Verbnet Class: 1 "possess a flavor":

Roles:

Arg1:thing with flavor


Arg2:description of flavor

Examples:

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


beautiful metaphor (-)
They still buy apples mainly for big, red good looks -- that's why so many taste like woodchucks' punching bags.
Arg1:	so many
REL:	taste
Arg2-like:	woodchucks ' punching bags