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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Active patterns:

SCU + VHC_act + upon_NP_V-ing

Passive patterns:

NP_V-ing + VHC_pass + upon | (+ by_phrase) with verbs marked in yellow

agree (A be of same opinion) - agree (D come to conclusion) - count (D rely)