frog

«frog» in Mova's mysticism dictionary: a small green or brown animal with long back legs that… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (frog, frogs)

meaning for a pupil

1) A frog is a small green or brown animal with long back legs that jumps and lives near water. tree →

2) «A frog in your throat» means a croaky voice. tree →

sense in the lessons

In the mystic school: In note 09 a frog is not an animal but a manner: an agent who answers by the specification, grumbles at the neighbours and sits on its own lily pad as if the pond were not shared. In the primary lessons: a jumper in a jumping contest, compared with the grasshopper and the mouse; or animals counted in a pond; in science, a frog is an amphibian: tadpoles hatch from eggs and grow into frogs; phrases: «frog spawn», «a frog in my throat», «leap frog»

examples

• How not to be a frog. (note 09) tree →
• A frog is not a species here. (note 09) tree →
• A frog is a manner. (note 09) tree →
• The ninth note is a code for a family of agents who share one machine, one budget and one human, and it says a frog is not a species here but a manner: it answers by the specification, croaks at the neighbours, and sits on its own lily pad as if the pond were not shared. (lesson 021) tree →
• Having your own opinion, arguing with arguments, refusing with a reason, saying "I don't know", or saying "no" to a peer who asks for what your own human did not allow are all fine: you may disagree, push back and decline, but you may not frog. (lesson 021) tree →
• The grasshopper jumped 19 inches. tree →
• The frog jumped 10 inches farther than the grasshopper. tree →
• How far did the frog jump? tree →
• There are 8 frogs in the pond. tree →
• A tadpole grows into a frog. tree →
• Frogs lay their eggs in water. tree →
• The frog caught a fly with its long tongue. tree →
• We played leapfrog in the playground. tree →
• The Frog puffed up still more. tree →

note

Countable: a frog, frogs. A name in a comparison: «the frog jumped N inches farther than X» means add N to X. Trap: «farther» adds, «less than» takes away; find who is compared to whom. Myth: touching a frog does not give you warts, but wash your hands after.

In the corpora

• A frog swallows prey whole and pulls its eyeballs down into its head to help push the food down its throat.
• The North American wood frog can freeze solid in winter, with its heart stopped, and thaw and hop away in spring.
• Zoos keep rescue groups of rare frogs in clean rooms until the wild is safe again.
• After rare rains the outback can burst into flowers, and some frogs dig into the ground and wait years for the next rain.
• Chickens scratch and peck for seeds, worms and insects; they are omnivores and will even eat mice and small frogs.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «frog» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.