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The aim of this international standard is to propose a consensual annotation scheme for semantic roles, that is to say a scheme that indicates the role that a participant plays in an event or state, as described mostly by a verb, and typically providing answers to questions such as ''who' did 'what' to 'whom'', and 'when', 'where' 'why' and 'how'. This includes not only the semantic relations between a verb and its arguments, but also those relations that are relevant for other predicative elements such as nominalizations, nouns, adjectives and predicate modifiers; the predicating role of adverbs and the use of coercion fall outside the scope of this standard.1