Rolesets - smooth

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

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

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

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

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 .