"shorten" Rolesets

short.01 - sell stocks short

SHORT-V NOTES: No Vncls. Checked by Julia, 11/2010. (from short.01-v)

Aliases:

short (v.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: stock broker
ARG1-PPT: stocks

short-v: wsj-ese strikes again!

For example , may seek to profit during some takeover situations by buying stock in one company involved and .

short.02 - short-circuit

SHORT-V NOTES: Member of Vncls other_cos-45.4. Checked by Julia, 11/2010. (from short.02-v)

Aliases:

short (v.)
short-circuit (v.)
short_out (v.)
short_circuit (m.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: electrician
ARG1-PPT: circuit, electrical appliance, or metaphorical extension

short-v: usually ergative

When the swaying of the building woke me up , I reasoned that a ) I was in Southern California ; b ) the bed was moving ; c ) it must be a Magic Fingers bed had .

short-circuit-v

, .

short_out-v: ARG0 and ARG1

When the rubber studs rotted away , the motor fell on the floor , followed by .

short.03 - short change

SHORT-V NOTES: No Vncls. Updated by Julia, 11/2010. (from short.03-v) Then updated again during MWE framing.
Not restricted to money; can be used anytime someone doesn't receiveeverything they "should" be getting. (from short.03-v)

Aliases:

short (v.)
short-change (v.)
short_change (m.)
short_circuit (m.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: giver of change
ARG1-PPT: receiver of change
ARG2-VSP: amount

short-v: when the 'change' is really a chicken nugget.

If I worked as a grill cook at McDonald 's and , what would happen ?

short_change-m

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short.05 - crumbly due to heavy fat content (as pie crust)

SHORT-J NOTES: Added by Julia based on WordNet. (from short.04-j)

Aliases:

short (j.)

Roles:

ARG1-PAG: thing with heavy fat content

short-j: the arg

was and crumbly , the filling achieved that perfect balance between sweetness and nuttiness , and the piece paired perfectly with a handsome glass of honeyed Geyser Peak late harvest semillon .

short.06 - not having enough to reach a goal

SHORT-J NOTES: Updated by Julia based on BOLT-1, closely related to short-v.03, but impossible to combine (from short.01-j)

Aliases:

short (j.)
fall_short (l.)

Roles:

ARG1-PPT: entity not having enough
ARG2-EXT: what arg1 doesn't have enough of, amount short
ARG3-GOL: goal arg1 is short of reaching

short-j: arg2

Between Russia and Iran , they would have access to enormous oil reserves , from which they could , if were , deny the U.S. Saudi Arabia comes to mind as well .

short-j: args 1, 2

She had a cart full of groceries and was .

short-j: args 1, 3

The other day I was in post office and there was a guy was and he was making 50,000$/year .

short-j: because arg3 applies to the money frame

was .

fall_short-l

Increased But .

short.07 - minimal length/duration

SHORT NOTES: Updated for spatialAMR with the addition of args 3 and 4.
SHORT-J NOTES: Added by Julia based on WordNet. (from short.02-j)
SHORTER-J NOTES: Automatically created by Julia as an alias file for unification. (from shorter.02-j)

Aliases:

shorter (j.)
short (j.)

Roles:

ARG1-SE1: short entity
ARG2-DOM: domain/dimension in which arg1 isn't long
ARG3-SCL: scale
ARG4-EXT: measurement

short-j: both args

was

short-j: arg1

There was an error posting your comment . Maybe was ?

short-j: duration

was .

short-j: distance and scale

is a

short.08 - snippy, brusk

SHORT-J NOTES: Added by Julia. (from short.03-j)

Aliases:

short (j.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: entity behaving bruskly
ARG1-PPT: subject matter
ARG2-GOL: target of brusk behavior

short-j: all args

Yesterday we got into an argument because was .

shorten.04 - make shorter

SHORTEN-V NOTES: Comparison to other quantifiable-change verbs (rise, etc). Member of Vncls other_cos-45.4. (from shorten.01-v)
SHORTENING-N NOTES: ~shorten.01 (from shortening.01-n)

Aliases:

shortening (n.)
shorten (v.)

Roles:

ARG0-PAG: causal agent
ARG1-PPT: thing becoming shorter
ARG2-EXT: EXT
ARG3-DIR: start point
ARG4-GOL: end point

shorten-v: start and end points

Mr. Krampe also said that Mercedes plans to bring out new models every year through the mid-1990s and .

shorten-v: Arg0, 1

Google has improved .