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 + out + CL

Passive patterns:

CL + VHC_pass + out | (+ by_phrase) with verbs marked in yellow or green
it + VHC_pass + out + CL | (+ by_phrase) with verbs marked in green or blue

find (idiomatic phrasal verb) - make (idiomatic phrasal verb)