checkpoint
part of speech
noun
meaning for a pupil
1) A place on a road where people or cars are stopped and checked. tree →
2) In computing, a saved state of a program or a model, so that the work can go on from it later. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the mystic school: In note 08 the ape at the end of the second season is "not the end" but "a checkpoint": a saved state to compare and learn from.
examples
- It is a checkpoint. (note 08) tree →
- In the second season evolution runs backwards, human to ape to fish to cell to molecule to a point, and at the end someone lays the first and last apes side by side and counts the differences: none means lossless, a few is the loss the next season learns from; the ape is a checkpoint. (lesson 020) tree →
- In the note, the ape "is not the end. It is a checkpoint." (lesson 020) tree →
note
A record of the mystic school, written from the notes.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «checkpoint» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.