'V that' - Construction 17

Name: the learn that construction
Description: A person comes to know something.
Verbs: ascertain, conclude, decide, deduce, determine, discern, discover, divine, establish, find, hear, infer, intuit, learn, note, notice, observe, perceive, read, realise, recall, recognise, recollect, register, remember, see, sense, suss, twig, find out
Example: Later that month she learned that Edmund would like to settle out of court. (BNC)
Membership: cognition
Semantic fields and roles: Field: Cognition. Roles: NP1: Cognizer; that-clause: Phenomenon
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