... lexical information are useful for verb classification Although neither SCF nor CO performs well on its own, a combination of them proves to be the most informative feature for this task Other ways ... whereas most verbs tend to put a strong selectional preference on their nominal arguments, they not care much about the identity of the verbs in their verbal arguments Based on these observations, ... a particular verb For instance, in the alternation The ice melted and The sun melted the ice, ice occurs in the subject position in the first sentence but in the object position in the second sentence...