Predicate: quit

Roleset id: quit.01 , leave your job, Source: , vncls: , framnet:

quit.01: QUIT-V NOTES: Based on financial subcorpus, comparison to 'stop' and 'leave'. Member of VNcls complete-55.2, resign-10.11. (from quit.01-v)

Aliases:

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quit (v.)

Roles:

        Arg0-PAG: quitter (vnrole: 55.2-Agent, 10.11-Agent)
        Arg1-PPT: job (vnrole: 55.2-Theme, 10.11-Source)

Example: typically intransitive

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

        The company's president quit suddenly.

        Arg0: The company 's president
        Rel: quit
        Argm-mnr: suddenly

Example: leave or cause to end?

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

        Partly because of concern about the economy and partly because she recently quit her job as a legal assistant to go to school, ``I think at this point we want to be a lot more liquid.''

        Arg0: she
        Argm-tmp: recently
        Rel: quit
        Arg1: her job as a legal assistant
        Argm-prp: to go to school

Example: non-job sense

        person: ns,  tense: ns,  aspect: ns,  voice: ns,  form: ns

        She quit smoking, April 1999.

        Arg0: She
        Rel: quit
        Arg1: smoking