Cause_change_of_position_on_a_scale : other_cos-45.4












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



NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) PP[by] (Difference)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) 2nd (Item)
NP (Attribute) V () PP[by] (Agent) AVP (Difference)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) AVP (Difference) 2nd (Item)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) PP[by] (Difference) 2nd (Item)
NP (Agent) V () INI (Attribute) PP[by] (Difference) NP (Item) PP[since] (Time)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) PP[by] (Difference) 2nd (Item) PP[for] (Time)
NP (Attribute) V () CNI (Agent) PP[by] (Difference) VPto (Purpose)
NP (Attribute) V () CNI (Agent) PP[by] (Difference) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) PP[by] (Difference) PP[to] (Value_2)
NP (Item) V () CNI (Agent) DNI (Attribute)
NP (Agent) V () INI (Attribute) NP (Item)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) 2nd (Item) PPing[by] (Means)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) DNI (Item) PPing[by] (Means) AVP (Speed)
NP (Agent) V () INI (Attribute) NP (Item) VPto (Purpose)
NP (Attribute) V () INI (Agent) DNI (Item) AVP (Speed)
NP (Agent) V () INI (Attribute) NP (Item) AVP (Speed)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) 2nd (Item) PP[over] (Time)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) DNI (Item) PP[during] (Time) PP[to] (Value_2)
NP (Attribute) V () CNI (Agent) DNI (Item) PP[from] (Value_1) PP[to] (Value_2)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) 2nd (Item) PP[from] (Value_1) PP[to] (Value_2)
NP (Attribute) V () CNI (Agent) DNI (Item) PP[to] (Value_2)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) 2nd (Item) PP[to] (Value_2)
NP (Attribute) V () CNI (Agent) PPing[by] (Means)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) PPing[by] (Means)
NP (Attribute) V () CNI (Agent) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) PP[from] (Value_1) PP[to] (Value_2)
NP (Attribute) V () CNI (Agent) PP[to] (Value_2)
NP (Attribute) V () CNI (Cause) PP[by] (Difference)
NP (Cause) V () NP (Attribute) PP[by] (Difference) DNI (Item) PP[over] (Value_1)
NP (Attribute) V () PP[by] (Cause) 2nd (Item)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) PP[by] (Difference) PP[by] (Means)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) 2nd (Item) PP[through] (Means) PP[from] (Value_1) PP[to] (Value_2)
NP (Attribute) V () CNI (Agent) 2nd (Item) PP[within] (Time) PP[to] (Value_2)
NP (Agent) V () INI (Attribute) NP (Item) PP[from] (Value_1) PP[to] (Value_2)
NP (Item) V () CNI (Agent) INI (Attribute) PP[to] (Value_2)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) PPing[by] (Means) PP[within] (Time) PP[to] (Value_2)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) PP[in] (Purpose)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) PP[to] (Value_2)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Item)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) PP[by] (Attribute)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) AVP (Difference)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) PP[by] (Difference) PP[on] (Item) PP[to] (Value_2)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) AVP (Difference) AVP (Speed)
NP (Attribute) V () CNI (Agent) PP[by] (Difference) PP[to] (Value_2)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) PP[of] (Item)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) PP[of] (Item) AVP (Speed)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) VPing (Purpose)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) VPto (Purpose)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) Sfin (Time)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) AVP (Time) PP[from] (Value_1) PP[to] (Value_2)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) PP[in] (Time) PP[from] (Value_1) PP[to] (Value_2)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) PP[by] (Difference) VPto (Purpose)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) PP[by] (Difference) PP[from] (Time)
NP (Attribute) V () CNI (Agent) VPto (Purpose)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) VPto (Purpose) PP[on] (Time) PP[from] (Value_1) PP[to] (Value_2)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) PP[over] (Time) PP[to] (Value_2)
NP (Attribute) V () CNI (Agent) PP[from] (Value_1) PP[to] (Value_2)
NP (Cause) V () NP (Item) PP[to] (Value_2)
NP (Item) V () PP[by] (Agent) PP[to] (Value_2)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Item) PP[after] (Time)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) INI (Cause) 2nd (Item) AVP (Path) PP[at] (Speed) PP[since] (Time)
NP (Cause) V () DNI (Agent) NP (Attribute) AVP (Path)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) INI (Cause) AVP (Path)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) INI (Cause) AVP (Path) PP[in] (Place) VPto (Purpose)
NP (Item) V () CNI (Agent) PP[in] (Time) PP[from] (Value_1) PP[below] (Value_2)
NP (Cause) V () NP (Attribute) PP[by] (Difference) PP[up] (Path) PP[between] (Time)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute) VPto (Item)
NP (Cause) V () PP[between] (Attribute) PP[to] (Attribute) 2nd (Item)
Sing (Cause) V () NP (Attribute)
NP (Cause) V () NP (Attribute) 2nd (Difference) PP[to] (Item)
NP (Cause) V () NP (Difference) PP[to] (Item)
NP (Cause) V () PP[to] (Item) AVP (Manner)
NP (Item) V () CNI (Agent) INI (Attribute) AVP (Path)
NP (Attribute) V () CNI (Agent) DNI (Item) AVP (Path)
NP (Agent) V () INI (Attribute) NP (Item) AVP (Path)
NP (Agent) V () INI (Attribute) NP (Item) AVP (Path) PP[after] (Time)
NP (Item) V () CNI (Agent) INI (Attribute) AVP (Path) PP[to] (Value_2)
NP (Agent) V () INI (Attribute) NP (Item) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Patient) V () ADV-Middle ()
NP (Agent) V () NP.patient (Patient) NP (Agent) V () NP (Attribute)
NP (Cause) V () NP (Attribute)
NP (Patient) V () NP (Result) ADJ ()
NP (Agent) V () NP (Patient) PP.instrument[with] (Instrument)
NP.instrument (Instrument) V () NP (Patient)
NP.patient (Patient) V () NP (Attribute) V () CNI (Agent)


Examples from WordNet


The Allies escalated the bombing
He decreased his staff
The enemy redoubled their screaming on the radio



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


The board will be able to increase, decrease, add or eliminate budget_items, subject_to the Mayor 's veto; but the City_Council will now share fully this budget-altering power.
If there were no West_Berlin problem, imperialist quarters would have invented an excuse for stepping_up the armaments race to try to solve the internal and external problems besetting the United_States and its NATO partners.
Entries are summarized only_when by doing so the amount of information retained in the dictionary is reduced and the time required for dictionary operations is decreased.
`` Former Vice_President Nixon came_out in support of President_Kennedy 's program for stepping_up the arms_race.
The former is intended to decrease the amount of work necessary to extend dictionary coverage.
It rested its decision solely on 7, which reads in pertinent part:``[ N_]_o corporation engaged in commerce shall acquire, directly or indirectly, the whole or any part of the stock or other share capital of another corporation engaged also in commerce, where the effect of such acquisition may be to substantially lessen competition between the corporation whose stock is so acquired and the corporation making the acquisition, or to restrain such commerce in any section or community, or tend to create a monopoly of any line of commerce.
This was disclosed today by a responsible source amid intensified efforts by the Soviet_Union to gain a greater role in the staff and operation of the United_Nations.
South Viet_Nam has received$ 1450000000 in United_States aid since 1954 and the rate of assistance has been stepped_up since Vice_President Lyndon_B._Johnson 's visit last May.
As Hudson resumed his desperate criss-crossing of the little bay, every incident lessened the crew 's respect for him.
A rabbit_punch redoubled him.
In_spite of normal thyroid function tests, a trial of propylthiouracil, 400 mg. daily for one week, was given but served only to intensify muscle weakness.
Mobutu promptly flung_out the Russians, who have not since played any significant part on the local scene, although they have redoubled their obstructionist efforts at U._N. headquarters in New_York.
Georgia 's Department_of_Agriculture is intensifying its fire_ant eradication program in an effort to stay ahead of the fast-spreading pest.