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X-Is-Difficult-to-Answer Construction

Name X-Is-Difficult-to-Answer Construction
Semantic function of cxn EVALUATION of an ATTRIBUTEE in terms of the difficulty etc. of carrying out an action affecting it.
Slots Slot 1: argument Slot 2: predicate Slot 3: argument Slot 4: argument
Semantic role of slots ATTRIBUTE EVALUATION ACTION
Syntactic function potential subject postmod
Syntactic form BE Adj to-INF
Collo-profile
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Sources for collo-profile British National Corpus