smooth
smooth.01 - make smooth
SMOOTH-V NOTES: Based on financial subcorpus, automatic expansion via verbnet. Member of VNcls other_cos-45.4, wipe_manner-10.4.1. Updated by Julia, 11/2010. (from smooth.01-v)Aliases:
smooth (v.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: agent, entity causing smoothness
ARG1-PPT: thing becoming smooth
ARG2-MNR: explicit instrument
ARG1-PPT: thing becoming smooth
ARG2-MNR: explicit instrument
modification of phrasal
However , shedding steel would run directly counter to Mr. Roderick 's original rationale for diversifying into oil and gas :
Having two major productsARG0
would lessen the company 's vulnerability to one market 's down cycle and help smoothrel
the flow of cash and earningsARG1
.with instrument
JohnARG0
smoothedrel
the icing on the cakeARG1
with a handful of dried oak leavesARG2
.smooth.04 - suave
SMOOTH-J NOTES: Added by Julia. (from smooth.02-j)Aliases:
smooth (j.)
Roles:
ARG1-PPT: rico suave (agent/action, may require concatenation)
"Silky Bob"
His nickname implies that
heARG1
was smoothrel
and slick and never got caught .smooth.06 - free of bumps
SMOOTH-J NOTES: Added by Julia based on BOLT-4,5. (from smooth.01-j)Aliases:
smooth (j.)
Roles:
ARG1-PPT: bumpless entity
lexical comparative
Result is
my skinARG1
is smootherrel
than it is on some teenage girlsARGM-CXN
! -smoothen
smoothen.05 - make or become smooth
SMOOTHEN-V NOTES: Roleset by Katie based on internet search, parallel expansion of verbnet, propbank, and sense groupings. VN class other_cos-45.4. (from smoothen.01-v)Aliases:
smoothen (v.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: Thing causing the smoothening
ARG1-PPT: Entity smoothened
ARG1-PPT: Entity smoothened
cause to be smooth
Collagen injectionsARG0
smoothenrel
wrinkle linesARG1
.Become smooth
Without itARGM-ADV
, a rough surface morphologyARG1
caARGM-MOD
n'tARGM-NEG
smoothenrel
.smooth_out
smooth_out.02 - smooth out: make smooth
SMOOTH_OUT-V NOTES: Based on financial subcorpus, automatic expansion via verbnet. See VNcls othre_cos-45.4. (from smooth.02-v)Aliases:
smooth_out (v.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: agent, entity causing smoothness
ARG1-PPT: thing becoming smooth
ARG2-MNR: explicit instrument
ARG1-PPT: thing becoming smooth
ARG2-MNR: explicit instrument
no instrument
However , shedding steel would run directly counter to Mr. Roderick 's original rationale for diversifying into oil and gas :
Having two major productsARG0
would lessen the company 's vulnerability to one market 's down cycle and help smoothrel
outrel
the flow of cash and earningsARG1
.smooth_over
smooth_over.03 - smooth over: sooth difficulties
SMOOTH_OVER-V NOTES: No VNcls. (from smooth.03-v)Aliases:
smooth_over (v.)
Roles:
ARG0-PAG: soother
ARG1-PPT: hurts, difficulties
ARG1-PPT: hurts, difficulties
sooth != smooth
The CIA 's Deputy Director of Operations , Richard StoltzARG0
, tried to smoothrel
thingsARG1
overrel
a few days laterARGM-TMP
, but instead simply underlined Mr. Webster 's point .