Cause_to_be_sharp : other_cos-45.4












[11 : Something ----s something ]
[8 : Somebody ----s something ]



NP.instrument (Instrument) V () NP (Patient)
NP (Patient) V () CNI (Agent) PP[in] (Instrument)
NP (Patient) V () CNI (Agent) AVP (Manner)
NP (Agent) V () AVP (Manner) NP (Patient)
NP (Agent) V () PP[in] (Manner) NP (Patient) PP[with] (Time)
NP (Patient) V () CNI (Agent) PP[for] (Purpose)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Patient) PP[in] (Purpose)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Patient) VPto (Purpose) PP[to] (Result)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Patient) PP[into] (Result)
NP (Patient) V () CNI (Agent) AVP (Time)
NP (Patient) V () NP (Result) ADJ ()
NP (Patient) V () ADV-Middle ()
NP (Agent) V () NP (Patient) PP.instrument[with] (Instrument) NP (Agent) V () PP[on] (Instrument) NP (Patient)
NP (Agent) V () PP[with] (Instrument) NP (Patient)
NP.patient (Patient) V ()
NP (Agent) V () NP.patient (Patient) NP (Agent) V () NP (Patient)


Examples from WordNet


Too much cutting dulls the knife's edge
blunt the knives
sharpen the knives
The candles are tapered



Examples from VerbNet


The clothes dried wrinkled.
The clothes dried.
Bill dried the clothes with a hairdryer.
The hairdryer dried the clothes.
The cotton clothes dried easily.
Bill dried the clothes.



Examples from SemCor


An African knife and battle-ax are at this moment being sharpened by McKinley and Green.