Commentary: Syntax is: NP[animate] WORK (NP) Includes: WORK AT, WORK ON
Examples:
He is working hard to bring up his grade.
They worked on a farm growing up.
Her fingers worked with incredible speed.
She worked at the algebra problems until she'd solved them all.
At the end of sentence, he had worked off his debt to society.
Please be quiet while I work on the taxes.
Let's work through this problem together.
Mappings:
VerbNet: work-73.2,cooperate-73-3
FrameNet: Working_on
PropBank: work.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 6, 10, 12
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
work_through 1
work_on 1, 2
work_at 1
Examples:
How will the parachute actually work when deployed?
This old radio doesn't work anymore.
That drug has worked miracles for those with arthritis.
Mappings:
VerbNet: function-105.2-1
FrameNet: Being_operational,Usefulness,
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3, 4, 11
Commentary: Includes: WORK IN
Examples:
The artist taught them to work different kinds of clay.
We'll have to work this hard soil a lot before planting lettuce.
The dough should work easily when kneading.
He gradually worked the metal into a sword.
Work the dough until it is smooth and glossy.
Next, work in the butter.
Try to work some jokes into your speech.
Mappings:
VerbNet: knead-26.5
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: work.07
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 5, 13, 14, 20, 22
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
work_in 1
Examples:
I worked my way carefully around the broken glass.
Start from the bottom and work towards the top.
Slowly we worked the big rock onto the flatbed of the truck.
The screw worked free.
He knows how to work himself out of a jam.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: work.06
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 7, 9, 21, 27
Examples:
The rock musician worked the crowd of young girls into a frenzy.
Politicians know how to work a crowd.
You've got to learn how to work the system.
We'll work the phones tonight for the fund raiser.
Can you work an electric drill?
Don't work those children so hard.
They work us hard in that gym class.
Mappings:
VerbNet: use-105.1
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 6, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 23
Examples:
Those men will work for minimum wage.
The salesman works the Midwest.
She works at IBM.
Do you work for the government?
Smith works as a chemist.
Mappings:
VerbNet: employment-95.3
FrameNet: Being_employed
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2, 8
Examples:
The vintner worked the wine in big oak vats.
The wine worked.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 25, 26
Examples:
He couldn't work the second problem on the test.
They worked out a plan that should succeed.
The fees work out to less than $100.
Mappings:
VerbNet: discover-84
FrameNet: Coming_to_believe,Resolve_problem
PropBank: work.02
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 24
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
work_out 1, 3, 5, 6, 7
Commentary: Includes: WORK OUT, WORK OVER, WORK UP
Examples:
Don't worry. Things will all work out in the end.
He works out at the gym every day.
Those thugs worked him over pretty bad and now he's in the hospital.
I've really worked up an appetite.
The team worked up an ad for the client in record time.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: work.02,work.03,work.04
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
work_over 1
work_out 2, 4, 8
work_up 1, 2, 3, 4