Commentary:
NOTE: May be concrete or abstract
Examples:
Our house is constructed mostly of brick.
The parts for the computers are constructed in Asia.
They are trying to construct a stable government.
They have constructed different theories to explain global warming.
To know how to write clearly you must understand how to construct a sentence.
We need to help students learn to ask how someone has constructed an argument, a musical score, or a visual image.
Mappings:
VerbNet: create-26.4,other_cos-45.4
FrameNet: Building
PropBank: construct.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2, 4, 5
Examples:
Construct a tangent to the circle.
He constructed two equilateral triangles.
Mappings:
VerbNet: create-26.4,other_cos-45.4
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3
Examples:
The police couldn't construct the order of events after the woman left the apartment.
We tried to construct a motive for why he quit his job so suddenly.
Mappings:
VerbNet: other_cos-45.4
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 6