Grooming : floss-41.2.1












[9 : Somebody ----s somebody ]
[8 : Somebody ----s something ]
[2 : Somebody ----s ]



NP (Agent) V () NP (Body_part) NP (Frequency) 2nd (Medium) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Body_part) PP[with] (Medium) 2nd (Patient) PP[in] (Time)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Body_part) 2nd (Patient)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Body_part) 2nd (Patient) Sub (Time)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Body_part) PP[at] (Time)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Frequency) PP[in] (Medium) INI (Patient)
NP (Agent) V () AJP (Manner) 2nd (Medium) INI (Patient) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Agent) V () AJP (Manner) INI (Patient) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Agent) V () PP[in] (Medium) NP (Patient)
NP (Agent) V () 2nd (Medium) INI (Patient) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Agent) V () PP[in] (Medium) INI (Patient) AVP (Time)
NP (Agent) V () DNI (Patient) PP[in] (Place)
NP (Agent) V () INI (Patient) Sinterrog (Time)
NP (Agent) V () PP[from] (Body_part) NP (Patient)
NP (Agent) V () AVP (Manner) INI (Patient)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Frequency) PP[for] (Frequency) INI (Patient)
NP (Body_part) V () CNI (Agent)
NP (Agent) V () INI (Body_part) AVP (Frequency)
NP (Agent) V () INI (Body_part) AVP (Manner) PP[for] (Time)
NP (Agent) V () INI (Body_part) PP[in] (Medium)
NP (Agent) V () AVP (Frequency) NP (Patient)
NP (Patient) V () PP[by] (Agent) VPing (Instrument)
NP (Body_part) V () CNI (Agent) 2nd (Patient)
NP (Agent) V () PP[away] (Manner) NP (Patient)
NP (Body_part) V () CNI (Agent) PP[with] (Medium)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Body_part) PP[in] (Manner) PP[from] (Subregion)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Body_part) PP[for] (Duration) NP (Frequency)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Body_part) PP[with] (Instrument) AVP (Manner) AVP (Time)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Body_part) AVP (Manner)
NP (Body_part) V () CNI (Agent) PP[in] (Result)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Body_part) PP[into] (Result)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Patient) NP (Agent) V () NP (Body_part)
NP (Agent) V () INI (Patient)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Patient)
NP (Agent) V () NP (Patient) PP.instrument[with] (Instrument) NP (Agent) V () NP (Body_part) PP[with] (Instrument)
NP (Agent) V () PP[with] (Instrument) NP (Patient)
NP (Agent) V () INI (Body_part) PP[with] (Instrument)
NP (Agent) V ()
NP (Agent) V () PP.instrument[with] (Instrument)


Examples from WordNet


floss your teeth after every meal



Examples from VerbNet


I flossed.
She flossed her teeth with floss.
She brushed with a toothbrush.
The hygienist flossed my teeth.



Examples from SemCor


I was loaded with suds when I ran_away, and I have had a chance to wash it off.
Surely it would grow there whether I washed myself or not.
The first thing every morning when she washed her face she could see the scar on her chin where he 'd cut her with a boot cleat, and maybe she saw him heaving it again, the dirty sock popping_out as it flew.
David finished shaving, washed his face clean of lather, and combed and retied his hair.
At home, he would even wash his hands for supper, and he wandered around the yard in a pair of old corduroys.
Going through the Imperial_Gate in the wall, I entered the grounds of Topkapi_Palace, home of the Sultans and nerve_center of the vast Ottoman_Empire, and walked along a road toward another gate in the distance, past the Church of St._Irene, completed by Constantine in 330 A._D. on my left, and_then, just outside the second gate, I saw a spring with a tap in the wall on my right- the Executioner 's Spring, where he washed his hands and his sword after beheading his victims.
- and flounced to the sink, where she began noisily to wash her hands.
`` I do mind washing dishes now_and_then'', he said pleasantly.
The surgeon came_back at dusk, cut the vein of a second pigeon, again washed out the eye.