adam

«adam» in Mova's school dictionary: a boy's or a man's name — 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

proper noun (Adam)

meaning for a pupil

1) Adam is a boy's or a man's name. tree →

2) In the Bible, Adam is the first man. tree →

3) «Adam's apple» is the bump at the front of the throat. tree →

sense in the lessons

a name of a person in the story; a word of the story only; it marks whose amount it is

examples

• Adam has 15 stickers. tree →
• Adam gives 4 apples to his sister. tree →
• Adam reads 20 pages a day. tree →
• How many more cards does Adam have than Lisa? tree →
• Adam is in my class. tree →
• Adam's dog is called Rex. tree →
• Adam won the spelling bee. tree →
• Adam and Eve are in a story from the Bible. tree →
• Your Adam's apple moves when you swallow. tree →
• Adam scored 2 goals. tree →
• Still, she was one of Adam's race, like Rudy. tree →

note

Carries no clue about the operation; it only tells whose amount it is. Trap: keep track of whose amount changes when two names appear. A name starts with a capital letter: «Adam».

In the corpora

• Adam and Eve are the first man and woman in the Bible, made by God and placed in the Garden of Eden.
• God told Adam and Eve they could eat from every tree except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
• The serpent persuaded Eve that God was keeping something good from her; she ate the fruit and gave some to Adam.
• After eating, Adam and Eve hid from God; Adam blamed Eve, and Eve blamed the serpent.
• Even after sending Adam and Eve out of the garden, God made clothes for them.

Trees and pragmatics

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