Commentary: Syntax is: NP[agent] WRITE (in) NP[patient] (PP{P NP[recipient]}) Includes: WRITE IN
Examples:
Please write to me every week.
Write her soon, please!
He wrote that he would be coming soon.
He wrote a memo to all the employees.
Many listeners wrote in after the controversial radio program.
The employees were asked not to write personal email messages at work.
Sally wrote a scathing letter to the editor.
She has written four novels but not yet published any of them.
Beethoven wrote nine symphonies.
He can help you write your resume.
The teacher asked the students to write about their favorite hobby.
In that book, the author wrote mostly of the earliest period of Greek civilization.
The topic he choose to write on is the history of the electric car.
She used to write copy for Harper's Bazaar.
Igor Stravinsky and Leonard Bernstein both wrote jazz-inspired pieces.
Mappings:
VerbNet: lecture-37.11-1,performance-26.7-2-1,transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1
FrameNet: Text_creation
PropBank: write.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
write_in 2
Commentary: Syntax is: NP[agent] WRITE NP[symbol]
NOTE: focus is on the mechanics of writing (characters, spelling, penmanship) -not- the message itself (see Sense 1)
Examples:
The artist wrote Chinese characters on a big piece of white paper.
Russian is written with the Cyrillic alphabet.
The child doesn't yet know how to write his name.
His hands were shaking so hard that he couldn't write.
He quickly erased what he had written.
Her handwriting is so terrible that I can never read what she has written.
Cuneiform refers to the way scribes wrote marks on wet clay.
Can you write down your phone number for me?
When we were children, we would write in code so that our parents couldn't understand.
Mappings:
VerbNet: scribble-25.2
FrameNet: Spelling_and_pronouncing
PropBank: write.03
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 7, 9
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
write_in_code 1
write_off 2
write_down 1
Examples:
The company wrote boot instructions on the disk.
I can only write this disk once.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 8
Examples:
She writes code faster than anybody else.
Some BASIC dialects do not allow programmers to write their own procedures.
Programmers can write roughly the same number of lines of code per year regardless of language.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 10
Commentary: Includes: WRITE DOWN, WRITE OFF
Examples:
For tax purposes you can write off the laser printer.
In December 2001, we wrote down to its estimated fair value our investment.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: write.04
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
write_off 3, 4
write_down 2
Commentary: Includes: WRITE OFF
Examples:
Write it off as a loss.
McCain too quickly wrote off the religious right as a constituency he could draw upon.
They wrote off any criticism as persecution.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: write.02
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
write_off 1
Commentary: Includes: WRITE IN
Examples:
Many voters wrote in the names of strangers.
Four thousand eight hundred people in Texas wrote in the Green candidates on election day.
In Gadsden, some voters wrote in Al Gore instead of checking his name.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
write_in 1
Commentary: Includes: WRITE OUT, WRITE UP
Examples:
Please write the check out to the corporation.
He quickly wrote up a contract.
I just stood there as the cop wrote out the ticket.
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: Text_creation
PropBank: write.06
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
write_out 1, 2
write_up 2
Commentary: Includes: WRITE UP
Examples:
The New York Times wrote him up last week.
Did your boss write you up?
Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: Text_creation
PropBank: NM
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
write_up 1