Examples:
Form a ball with the pie dough.
We watched a glass blower forming a large blue vase.
The children formed a circle around the tree.
A lava flow probably formed these twisted rock formations.
Mappings:
VerbNet: create-26.4
FrameNet: Creating
PropBank: form.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 4, 5
Examples:
The rocks come together at the top to form an archway.
These two manuscripts form the entire surviving work of that poet.
A canvas and paint by themselves don't form a masterpiece.
The water formed little beads.
Tiny ice crystals formed on the outside of the window.
The idea for a computer game had long been forming in her mind.
Mappings:
VerbNet: appear-48.1.1,reflexive_appearance-48.1.2
FrameNet: Reshaping,Coming_to_be
PropBank: form.02
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2, 3, 7
Examples:
Let's form a start-up!
He wanted to form a chess club at school.
The stray dogs formed a pack.
Mappings:
VerbNet: create-26.4
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1
Examples:
Prejudices are often formed early in life.
John formed a dislike of tuna fish after getting food poisoning once.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 6