WNGROUPS(7WN)

✨ WNGROUPS 💅 (that's section 7WN of the WordNet™ manuals, bestie)

okay so real talk, this page is all about wngroups — the lil corner of the WordNet search code that deals with grouping similar verb senses together. it's giving behind-the-scenes lore, no cap. 🦋

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

so like, some similar senses of verbs have already been grouped together by the lexicographers (the dictionary girlies 👑). and the way that happens? it's done statically in the lexicographer source files using the semantic pointer_symbol $. iconic.

then transitivity comes in and does its thing — it combines groups of overlapping senses into the largest sense groups possible. like when your friend group merges with another friend group at a party and suddenly everyone knows everyone. that's transitivity, fr fr. 🫶

⚠️ NOTES ⚠️

okay don't come for me but… coverage of verb groups is incomplete. it's not the full picture, bestie. that's just how it is. 💀

💻 ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES (UNIX) 💻

• WNHOME — the base directory for WordNet. the default is /usr/local/WordNet-3.0. that's home base, periodt. 🏠
• WNSEARCHDIR — the directory where the WordNet database has been installed. the default is WNHOME/dict. so it lives inside WNHOME, in the dict folder, iykyk.

🪟 REGISTRY (WINDOWS) 🪟

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WordNet\3.0\WNHome — the base directory for WordNet. the default is C:\Program Files\WordNet\3.0. windows besties, this one's for you. 🌈

📁 FILES 📁

• sentidx.vrb — verb sense keys and sentence frame numbers ✨
• sents.vrb — example sentence frames 🌸

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

go read these next, they're all main character energy:

• wn(1WN)
• wnb(1WN)
• senseidx(5WN)
• wnsearch(3WN)
• wndb(5WN)
• wnintro(7WN)

and that's the whole vibe, bestie 💖 this was brought to you by WordNet 3.0, from way back in Dec 2006 — yeah she's vintage but she ATE. mwah 💅✨🎀