Erlangen Valency Patternbank BETA

— a corpus-based research tool for work on valency and argument structure constructions

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• active verb patterns
• passive verb patterns
• adjective patterns
• noun patterns

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Pattern query results

Active patterns:

SCU + VHC_act + in + on_NP

Passive patterns:

NP + VHC_pass + in + on | (+ by_phrase) with verbs marked in yellow

break (idiomatic phrasal verb) - burst (idiomatic phrasal verb) - close (idiomatic phrasal verb) - cut (idiomatic phrasal verb) - get (idiomatic phrasal verb) - listen (idiomatic phrasal verb) - look (idiomatic phrasal verb) - press (idiomatic phrasal verb) - sit (idiomatic phrasal verb) - start (idiomatic phrasal verb) - walk (idiomatic phrasal verb)