fail.01: FAIL-V NOTES: Frames file for 'fail' based on survey of initial sentences of big corpus; nominal 'failing' based on BOLT-7. Member of VNcls succeed-74-2, neglect-75-1-1. (from fail.01-v) FAILING-N NOTES: Automatically created by Julia as an alias file for unification. (from failing.01-n)
Aliases:
Alias
FrameNet
VerbNet
fail (v.)
Success_or_failure Successful_action
neglect-75.1-1 succeed-74-3-1-1
failing (n.)
failure (n.)
Roles:
        I'm pretty sure arg0 doesn't exist here, and that it's a relic of a time when fail.01 and fail.02 were combined. (from fail.01-v)
        Arg0-CAU: assessor of not failing
        Arg1-PAG: thing failing (vnrole: 74-3-1-1-agent, 75.1-1-agent)
        Arg2-PPT: task (vnrole: 74-3-1-1-theme, 75.1-1-theme)
        Arg3-GOL: benefactive
Example: fail-v: sentential task
        Saudi Arabia allegedly failed to honor US patents, copyrights, and other intellectual-property rights.
        Arg1: Saudi Arabia
        Argm-adv: allegedly
        Rel: failed
        Arg2: to honor US patents, copyrights, and other intellectual-property rights
Example: ARG1 and ARG2
        When Chinese Communist premier Zhu Rongji made belligerent remarks a few days before the election in an effort to scare voters away from the DPP ticket , the ruling party made a grievous mistake , opined Jin , when it failed to come out strongly critical of Zhu and attempted instead to capitalize on the incident by playing the " fear card . "
        Argm-tmp: when
        Arg1: it
        Rel: failed
        Arg2: to come out strongly critical of Zhu
Example: fail-v
        My car failed on me this morning.
        Arg1: My car
        Rel: failed
        Arg3: on me
        Argm-tmp: this morning
        Filner admitted his ?failing to fully respect the women who work for me and with me?
        Arg1: his
        Rel: failing
        Arg2: to fully respect the women who work for me and with me
        In other words , both prohibiting enforcement of " temporary workers " and allowing enforcement of " temporary workers " have the same outcome : " temporary workers " are responsible for the failing of the leaders and they are scapegoats .
        Rel: failing
        Arg1: of "temporary workers"
fail.02: FAIL-V NOTES: No VNcls. (from fail.02-v) FAILING-N NOTES: Automatically created by Julia as an alias file for unification. (from failing.02-n)
        The evil professor failed all of his students.
        Arg0: The evil professor
        Rel: failed
        Arg1: all of his students