Roleset wash.01 Verbnet Class: NONE "(make) become clean":

Roles:

Arg0:agent of washing


Arg1:thing being washed, dirt


Arg2:washing liquid


Arg3:source


Arg4:end state of arg1

Examples:

person: ns tense: ns aspect: progressive voice: active form: participle


simple transitive (-)
Not unexpectedly, wives did by far the most -- about 80% of the shopping, laundry and cooking, and about two-thirds of housecleaning, *trace* washing dishes, child care and family paper work.
Arg0:	*trace* -> wives
REL:	washing
Arg1:	dishes

person: ns tense: present aspect: ns voice: passive form: participle


PP arg3/source (-)
Three days later, before the new embryo had become implanted in the uterus, it was washed *trace* out of the mother mouse.
ArgM-TMP:	Three days later
ArgM-TMP:	before the new embryo had become implanted in the uterus
REL:	washed
Arg1:	*trace* -> it
Arg3-out:	of the mother mouse

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


NP source, PP arg1 (-)
Investors interpreted the KKR move as a desire by the firm *trace* to wash its hands of SCI TV.
Arg0:	*trace* -> a desire
REL:	wash
Arg3:	its hands
Arg1-of:	SCI TV

person: ns tense: present aspect: ns voice: passive form: participle


resultative (-)
We know that very early exposure to schooling improves performance in the first grade, but afterward the difference is quickly washed *trace* away.
ArgM-MNR:	quickly
REL:	washed
Arg1:	*trace* -> the difference
Arg4:	away

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


with liquid (-)
John washes his hair in cheap beer.
Arg0:	John
REL:	washes
Arg1:	his hair
Arg2-in:	cheap beer

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


in as LOC (-)
John washes his hair in the toilet.
Arg0:	John
REL:	washes
Arg1:	his hair
Argm-LOC:	in the toilet

More than any other verb we've encountered, 'wash' has a tendency to merge args. Intransitively, for example, "John washed" is the same as "John washed himself", showing that the subject of the first sentence includes both arg0 and arg1. Arg1 by default contains both the thing dirty and the dirt, but those can be separated as in the "wash hands of" example and "wash out of" example.

Roleset wash.02 Verbnet Class: NONE "cut it, be adequate":

Roles:

Arg0:inadequate thing

Examples:

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


inadequacy personified (-)
No, Mr. Lantos's complaints simply won't wash.
Arg0:	Mr. Lantos 's complaints
ArgM-DIS:	simply
ArgM-MOD:	wo
ArgM-NEG:	n't
REL:	wash