... an object, always takes an agent, always has a pa- tient, and always has the patient serving as ob- ject. The learner will also assume that em break never takes a location, a dative, etc. ... subject and object grammatical relations, and a representation of what NPs serve as agent, patient, instrument and location. This may be seen as begging the question of verb acquisition, because, ... is actually a combination of this weak form of semantic bootstrapping with what is called em syntactic bootstrapping, the notion that syntactic frames alone offer enough information to classify...