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<frameset>
<predicate lemma="cut">
<note>
  Frames file for 'cut' based on survey of initial sentences of big
  corpus and comparison with 'reduce'
</note>

<roleset id="cut.01" name="slice" vncls="21.1 23.2 26.1-1 40.8.3-2 41.2.2">
<roles>
  <role descr="cutter" n="0">
	<vnrole vncls="41.2.2" vntheta="Agent"/>
        <vnrole vncls="23.2" vntheta="Agent"/>
        <vnrole vncls="21.1" vntheta="Agent"/>
        <vnrole vncls="26.1-1" vntheta="Agent"/>
        <vnrole vncls="40.8.3-2" vntheta="Experiencer"/></role>
  <role descr="thing cut" n="1">
	<vnrole vncls="41.2.2" vntheta="Patient"/>
        <vnrole vncls="23.2" vntheta="Patient1"/>
        <vnrole vncls="21.1" vntheta="Patient"/>
        <vnrole vncls="26.1-1" vntheta="Product"/>
        <vnrole vncls="40.8.3-2" vntheta="Patient"/></role>
  <role descr="medium, source" n="2">
	<vnrole vncls="23.2" vntheta="Patient2"/>
        <vnrole vncls="26.1-1" vntheta="Material"/></role>
  <role descr="instrument" n="3">
	<vnrole vncls="21.1" vntheta="Instrument"/></role>
  <role descr="beneficiary" n="4"/>
</roles>

<example name="it slices, it dices, it makes julienne fries!">
  <text>
    Trading companies can cut through the logjam that small-company
    owners often face.
  </text>
  <arg n="0">Trading companies</arg>
  <arg f="MOD" n="m">can</arg>
  <rel>cut</rel>
  <arg f="through" n="2">the logjam that small-company owners often
  face.</arg> 
</example>

<example name="with source">
  <text>
  Longer production runs would cut inefficiencies from adjusting
  machinery between production cycles.
  </text>
  <arg n="0">Longer production runs</arg>
  <arg f="MOD" n="m">would</arg>
  <rel>cut</rel>
  <arg n="1">inefficiencies</arg>
  <arg f="from" n="2">adjusting machinery between production cycles.</arg>
<note>I think that's the wrong syntactic parse, actually, but we'll go
with it.
</note>
</example>

</roleset>

<roleset id="cut.02" name="reduce" vncls="21.1">
<roles>
  <role descr="cutter" n="0">
	<vnrole vncls="21.1" vntheta="Agent"/></role>
  <role descr="thing reduced" n="1">
	<vnrole vncls="21.1" vntheta="Patient"/></role>
  <role descr="amount reduced by" n="2"/>
  <role descr="start point" n="3"/>
  <role descr="end point" n="4"/>
</roles>

<example name="with EXT">
  <text>
    Magna recently cut its quarterly divided in half.
  </text>
  <arg n="0">Magna</arg>
  <arg f="TMP" n="m">recently</arg>
  <rel>cut</rel>
  <arg n="1">its quarterly divided</arg>
  <arg f="EXT" n="2">in half</arg>
</example>

<example name="with start and end points">
  <text>
    Goody Products Inc cut its quarterly dividend to five cents a
    share from 11.5 cents a share.
  </text>
  <arg n="0">Goody Products Inc</arg>
  <rel>cut</rel>
  <arg n="1">its quarterly dividend</arg>
  <arg f="to" n="4">five cents a share</arg>
  <arg f="from" n="3">11.5 cents a share</arg>
</example>

<example name="but usually with just arg1">
  <text>
    NL and Mr. Simmons cut the price they were proposing for Georgia Gulf.
  </text>
  <arg n="0">NL and Mr. Simmons</arg>
  <rel>cut</rel>
  <arg n="1">the price they were proposing for Georgia Gulf</arg>
</example>

<example name="cut into">
  <inflection person="ns" tense="past" aspect="ns" voice="active" form="full"/>
  <text>
    Net cash income -- the amount left in farmers' pockets after
    deducting expenses from gross cash income -- increased in 33
    states in 1988, as the drought cut into crop yields and drove up
    commodity prices, the department's Economic Research Service
    reported yesterday.  
  </text>
  <arg n="0">the drought</arg>
  <rel>cut</rel>
  <arg n="1" f="into">crop yields</arg>
</example>

<example name="completely reduce">
  <inflection person="ns" tense="ns" aspect="ns" voice="ns" form="gerund"/>
  <text>
    For the first time, the U.S. considered cutting Mr. Noriega from
    its intelligence payroll -- and the deliberations were intense,
    Mr. Turner says. 
  </text>
  <arg n="0">the U.S.</arg>
  <rel>cutting</rel>
  <arg n="1">Mr. Noriega</arg>
  <arg n="2" f="from">its intelligence payroll</arg>
</example>

</roleset>

<roleset id="cut.03" name="various idiomatic usages" vncls="21.1">
<roles>
  <role descr="cutter" n="0">
	<vnrole vncls="21.1" vntheta="Agent"/></role>
  <role descr="thing cut" n="1">
	<vnrole vncls="21.1" vntheta="Patient"/></role>
</roles>

<example name="cut class">
  <text>
    It was full of violence and gangs and kids cutting class
  </text>
  <arg n="0">kids</arg>
  <rel>cutting</rel>
  <arg n="1">class</arg>
</example>

<example name="cut it">
  <text>
    Many older athletes wonder if they can still cut it.
  </text>
  <arg n="0">they</arg>
  <arg f="MOD" n="m">can</arg>
  <arg f="TMP" n="m">still</arg>
  <rel>cut</rel>
  <arg n="1">it</arg>
</example>

<example name="cut corners">
  <inflection person="ns" tense="present" aspect="ns" voice="active" form="full"/>
  <text>
     ``Most of us grew up [*-2] believing in the axioms `Haste makes
     waste' and `[*] Don't cut corners,'...
  </text>
  <arg n="0">[*]</arg>
  <arg n="m" f="NEG">n't</arg>
  <rel>cut</rel>
  <arg n="1">corners</arg>
</example>

<example name="cut a deal">
  <inflection person="ns" tense="ns" aspect="ns" voice="ns" form="gerund"/>
  <text>
    In addition, White House aides think that there are numerous other
    important measures Democrats badly wanted passed -- such as the
    scaling back of a controversial catastrophic health-care plan for
    the elderly -- that might provide the president leverage in [*]
    cutting deals with Democrats. 
  </text>
  <arg n="0">[*] -&gt; the President</arg>
  <rel>cutting</rel>
  <arg n="1">deals with Democrats</arg>
<note>
That's the way Treebank parses it, too.
</note>
</example>

<note>
This encompasses a wide range of senses, but they all take basically
the same PAS.
</note>
</roleset>
</predicate>

<predicate lemma="cut_off">
<roleset id="cut.04" name="cut off: slice off" vncls="21.1">
<roles>
  <role descr="cutter" n="0">
    <vnrole vncls="21.1" vntheta="Agent"/></role>
  <role descr="thing cut" n="1">
    <vnrole vncls="21.1" vntheta="Patient"/></role>
  <role descr="medium, source" n="2"/>
  <role descr="instrument" n="3"/>
  <role descr="beneficiary" n="4"/>
</roles>

<example name="detassling">
  <text>
    The seed companies cut off the tassels of each plant.
  </text>
  <arg n="0">The seed companies</arg>
  <rel>cut_off</rel>
  <arg n="1">the tassels of each plant</arg>
<note>
Just for the record, I'd like to point out that it isn't the seed
companies that do this detasseling, but legions of Midwestern
teenagers.
</note>
</example>
</roleset>
</predicate>

<predicate lemma="cut_back">
<roleset id="cut.05" name="cut back: reduce" vncls="21.1">
<roles>
  <role descr="cutter" n="0">	</role>
  <role descr="thing reduced" n="1">	</role>
  <role descr="amount reduced by" n="2"/>
  <role descr="start point" n="3"/>
  <role descr="end point" n="4"/>
</roles>

<example name="overeating">
  <text>
      ``Whoa,'' thought John, ``I've got to start cutting back on my
      intake of chocolate.'' 
  </text>
  <arg n="0">I</arg>
  <rel>cutting_back</rel>
  <arg f="1" n="1">my intake of chocolate</arg>
</example>

<note>
</note>

</roleset>
</predicate>

<predicate lemma="cut_out">




</predicate>

<predicate lemma="cut_loose">


</predicate>

<predicate lemma="cut_up">


</predicate>
</frameset>
