Rolesets - insulate

insulate

insulate.01 - protect from heat, cold, etc

INSULATE-V NOTES: Frames file for 'insulate' based on survey of sentences in the WSJ corpus; adjectival 'insulated' based on BOLT-6. Comparison with 'protect'.Member of VNcls butter-9.9. (from insulate.01-v)
INSULATION-N NOTES: (from insulation.01-n)
INSULATED-J NOTES: Automatically created by Julia as an alias file for unification. (from insulated.01-j)

Aliases:

insulate (v.)
insulation (n.)
insulated (j.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: agentive protector
ARG1-PPT: protected
ARG2-CAU: protected from
ARG3-MNR: instrument, insulation itself

insulate-v: with instrument

Polyurethane foam is a highly efficient insulator , which accounts for why the walls of refrigerators and freezers can be thinner now than they were back in
the daysARGM-TMP
whenR-ARGM-TMP
theyARG1
were
insulatedrel
with glass fiberARG3
.

insulate-v: with Arg2

Separately ,
the company 's boardARG0
adopted a proposal to amend its 1986 shareholder rights plan , further
insulatingrel
the companyARG1
from takeoverARG2
.

insulation-n

While a storage battery may be used in most commercial Work when
itsARG1
insulationrel
from groundARG2
is low enough to give a considerable deflection on a voltmeter ...

insulated-j

Northern Wisconsin looks to be the most succeptible to the change , while
Lake Michigan regionsARG1
willARGM-MOD
be
moreARGM-EXT
insulatedrel
from the changesARG2
.

insulate.02 - isolate

INSULATE-V NOTES: frames created by Olga (from insulate.02-v)

Aliases:

insulate (v.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: causer of isolation
ARG1-PPT: isolated
ARG2-DIR: isolated from

insulated-v: passive

``
People in this businessARG1
have been
insulatedrel
, '' says Josh Pons , a horse breeder from Bel Air , Md .