account-v; 3 Senses

Sense Number 1: record, explain, answer for

Commentary:
NOTE: Includes: ACCOUNT FOR

Examples:
All the passengers were accounted for after the train derailment.
Present and accounted for!
I can't account for the missing money.
She demanded that her partner account for all of the past mistakes.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: Justifying
PropBank: account.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3, 4
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
account_for 2

Sense Number 2: make up or comprise a certain amount of something

Commentary:
NOTE: Includes: ACCOUNT FOR

Examples:
Passing grades account for only 10 percent of the grades given in this exam.
The number of Internet users with broadband connections now accounts for nearly two-thirds of the UK market.
Drunk driving accounts for a smaller percentage of fatalities than it did two decades ago.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1
WordNet Verb Particle Constructions, Multiword Expressions:
account_for 1

Sense Number 3: be considered as

Examples:
His finest work, Paradise Lost, is accounted the greatest epic poem.
Is he accounted one of the enemies we are supposed to love?
He ate their hearts panting hot and raw, which he accounted dainty morsels and best agreeing to his appetite.
Among the other schoolbooks by Jakobson, the most important can be accounted the Geography with atlas.
Teeth he accounted bits of ivory; heads he deemed but top-blocks.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM