Erlangen Valency Patternbank BETA

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

List patterns

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

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Pattern query results

Active patterns:

SCU + VHC_act + AdjP + to_NP

look (C appear) - seem - smell (A have smell) - smell (D appear) - sound (B IMPRESSION) - test (B RESULT)

Lexically specified patterns

Active patterns:

SCU + VHC_act + AdjP:positive/negative + to_NP

test (B RESULT)