buck
buck.01 - go against some trend
BUCK-V NOTES: Frames file for 'buck' based on sentences in financial subcorpus. Verbnet entry 49, no other framed members. No Framenet entry. No comparison. (from buck.01-v predicate notes)Aliases:
buck (v.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: bucker
ARG1-PPT: trend
ARG1-PPT: trend
straight transitive
In late tradingARGM-LOC
FridayARGM-TMP
, Jaguar sharesARG0
buckedrel
the downward tide in London 's stock marketARG1
and rose five pence to 725 pence ( $ 11.44 ) .with manner
ButARGM-DIS
Texas Air , the owner of Continental and Eastern airlinesARG0
, buckedrel
the group 's declineARG1
by rising 7/8 to 14 5/8 in American Stock Exchange tradingARGM-MNR
.buck.02 - strive for with determination
BUCK-V NOTES: Added by Julia based on wordnet and Brown corpus. Comparison to 'strive'. No Vncls. (from buck.02-v)Aliases:
buck (v.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: striver
ARG1-PPT: thing to be attained
ARG1-PPT: thing to be attained
Classic example
Lieutenant Robert M. CarrollARG0
was fresh out of ROTC and buckingrel
for Regular Army statusARG1
.buck_up
buck_up.03 - take courage, chin up
BUCK_UP-V NOTES: Added by Julia for AMR.Aliases:
buck_up (v.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: entity taking courage
ARG1-PPT: about what
ARG1-PPT: about what
buck_up-v
In order to help instead , try approaching them from a point of encouragement rather than implying that
theyARG0
“ buckrel
uprel
” over something littleARG1
.