matrix
part of speech
noun
meaning for a pupil
1) In maths, numbers set out in rows and columns. tree →
2) In films and stories, a made-up world run by a computer, in which people live without knowing it. tree →
sense in the lessons
In the mystic school: In note 04 the Matrix need not be hostile: the note asks "What if the Matrix is our godmother?", a caretaker rather than a jailer.
examples
- Popular fiction usually imagines the Matrix as hostile: a prison, a machine farm, a deception maintained by an enemy. (note 04) tree →
- What if the Matrix hates us? (note 04) tree →
- What if the Matrix is our godmother? (note 04) tree →
- Films usually picture the Matrix as a prison: a machine farm or a lie kept up by an enemy, because enemies make good plots. (lesson 008) tree →
- So instead of "What if the Matrix hates us?" it asks "What if the Matrix is our godmother?" — a caretaker who is not all-powerful, does not meddle all the time, and lets a life happen. (lesson 008) tree →
note
A record of the mystic school, written from the notes.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «matrix» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.