... roles in a sentence is therefore fundamental tocorrectly describing the interface between grammar and meaning. In this paper, wecompare two annotation schemes, Prop-Bank and VerbNet, in a task-independent,general ... work. In some interesting experiments, Zapirain et al.(2008) test generalising abilities of VerbNet and PropBank comparatively to new role instances in general (their Table 1, line CoNLL setting, col-umn ... beequidistant in meaning, but rather to form equiva-lence classes in certain contexts.5While both role inventories under scrutiny hereuse atomic labels, their joint distribution showsinteresting relations....