learn
part of speech
verb (learn, learns, learned/learnt, learning)
meaning for a pupil
1) To learn is to come to know something new, or to get a new skill: learn to swim. tree →
2) To learn something by heart is to remember it word for word. tree →
3) To learn about something is to find out about it: we learned about volcanoes. tree →
4) Learned (as an adjective) means having much knowledge gained from study and reading. tree →
sense in the lessons
what earlier lessons taught («revision of what we learned before»); in class «Today we learn to divide»; in science «learn how plants grow»; in everyday life learning to ride a bike, to read, from mistakes
examples
- First, a little revision of what we learned before … tree →
- Today we learn to divide. tree →
- Ella learns 4 new words each day. tree →
- I learned to ride my bike last summer. tree →
- We are learning about the solar system. tree →
- Learn your times tables by heart. tree →
- We learn from our mistakes. tree →
- My dog learned a new trick. tree →
note
No operation clue. Trap: «learns 4 new words each day» for some days hides equal groups: multiply. Past «learned» (US, also UK) or «learnt» (UK). «learn» is what the pupil does; «teach» is what the teacher does: say «teach me», not «learn me».
In the corpora
- Starting a new job means learning new systems, names and rules all at once, so people come home tired.
- Staying up too late makes adults tired the next day, and children's sleep matters even more for growing and learning.
- AI "tasted" millions of sentences or pictures in the same way and learned what usually goes together.
- AI programs learn patterns from very large numbers of examples, such as sentences or photos.
- An AI that learned what cats look like can be fooled by something fluffy and cat-shaped, such as a slipper.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «learn» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.