answer-n; 6 Senses

Sense Number 1: a spoken or written reply to a question

Commentary: ANSWER[+event][+speech_act][+reply]

Examples:
They liked the candidate's answers to most of the debate questions.
She knocked at the door and then went on in, without waiting for an answer. (implication of expected reply)
Whenever Bob asked Sally for a date, her answer was always 'no'.

Mappings:
PropBank: answer.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 3

Sense Number 2: a solution to a problem

Commentary: ANSWER[+entity][+symbolic][+information][+solution][+to_problem]

Examples:
The answers to this problem set can be found on page 192.
More money by itself is not the answer to improving the school's performance.
What is the answer to lasting peace in the middle east?
Only two of John's answers on the test were wrong.

Mappings:
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2

Sense Number 3: the plea of a defendant to a legal charge

Commentary: ANSWER[+event][+speech_act][+plea][+defendant][+to_charge][+legal]

Examples:
The judge asked the defendant what his answer to the charge was.
He is probably discussing with his attorney what the best answer to these charges should be.

Mappings:
PropBank: answer.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 4

Sense Number 4: behavior that is a reaction to something, usually nonverbal

Commentary: ANSWER[+event][-speech_act][+behavior][+reaction]

Examples:
His answer to everything is to get drunk.
I guess we got our answer when she slammed the book down and left the room.

Mappings:
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 5

Sense Number 5: something which is a match or correspondence to something else

Commentary: ANSWER[+relation][+role][+correspondence][+with_entity]
NOTE: always occurs in the singular

Examples:
The press called her Britain's answer to Marilyn Monroe.
Those shows are television's answer to the news magazine.

Mappings:
PropBank: NM
WordNet 0.0 Sense Numbers: 5

Sense Number 6: none of the above

Commentary: Automatically generated NOTA sense (bbn)

Examples:

Mappings:
PropBank: NM