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 + between_NP_pl

Passive patterns:

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

choose - come (special use 4) - decide - pass (F give) - pass (special use 3) - stand (special use 18) - vary (A be different)