train-v; 5 Senses

Sense Number 1: prepare or develop, through education or practice

Commentary: Syntax includes: NP1[agent] TRAIN[durative] NP2[recipient] NP1[theme] TRAIN[intransitive][durative] PP[nonfinite]
NOTE: implies that the training occurs under mutual agreement (in example 4, the wine drinker is actually training himself)

Examples:
This medical school trains the best doctors in the world.
Jane is training to be a teacher.
Who is being trained as the successor to the retiring CEO?
He trained his palette to distinguish French and California Cabernet wines.
The new coach has been training us for only six months.
I've been training at six in the morning everyday for the Boston Marathon.

Mappings:
VerbNet: hire-13.5.3
FrameNet: Education_training
PropBank: train.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 8

Sense Number 2: apply discipline to control something

Commentary: Syntax is: NP1[agent] TRAIN[durative] NP2[patient]
NOTE: implies that NP2 does not choose to enter into training

Examples:
It's almost impossible to train cats to stay off the furniture.
The gardner is training the roses to grow up the trellis.
She has trained her children to keep quiet in the movie theater.
You have trained the Smart Drive in the 60.1 Hz Q setting.
Mark Pilgrim trained the attack platypus.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: train.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 3, 9

Sense Number 3: aim or point something

Commentary: Syntax is: NP1[agent] TRAIN NP2[concrete] PP

Examples:
The policeman trained his gun on the woman's assailant.
Please don't train that slingshot on your little brother!
I trained my camera on the first model walking down the runway.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: train.02
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 6

Sense Number 4: travel by rail

Commentary: Syntax is: NP1[patient] TRAIN[intransitive][motion] PP[location]

Examples:
We trained across Europe last summer.

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 10

Sense Number 5: drag loosely along a surface, trail

Commentary: Syntax includes: NP1[agent] TRAIN[intransitive][motion] NP2[object] PP[location] NP1[patient] TRAIN[intransitive][motion] NP2[object] PP[location]

Examples:
She trained the mink coat along behind her as she walked.
Don't train your skirt hem in the mud there!

Mappings:
VerbNet: NM
FrameNet: NM
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 11