alive

«alive» in Mova's school dictionary: living, not dead — 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

adjective (alive)

meaning for a pupil

1) Alive means living, not dead. tree →

2) Alive means full of energy, activity or life. tree →

3) Alive can mean still existing or working, like a hope or a tradition. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons pupils sort things into alive, dead and never alive; living things move, grow, breathe, feed, sense and reproduce. In stories a town «comes alive» at night and a character is happy to be alive. Phrases: come alive, keep alive, stay alive, alive and well, alive with (full of).

examples

• Is the fish still alive? tree →
• Plants are alive, but rocks are not. tree →
• We were lucky to be alive after the storm. tree →
• The street comes alive at night. tree →
• The pond was alive with frogs. tree →
• Water keeps plants alive. tree →
• The old tradition is still alive. tree →
• My great-grandma is still alive and well. tree →
• 'So you are alive after all! tree →

note

Used after a verb, not before a noun: «the fish is alive», but «a live fish» or «a living fish», not «an alive fish». Opposite: dead. Science trap: things like fire move and grow but are not alive; seeds look dead but are alive.

In the corpora

• A chatbot's friendly greeting is the kind of reply its training makes likely; it does not mean someone is alive inside it.
• Loose brushwork, holding the brush further from the bristles, often makes paintings look more alive.
• In real life that is a hunt, not a friendship, and both animals are only doing what keeps them alive.
• The capybara is the biggest rodent alive and can weigh as much as a grown man.
• Some old tree stumps stay alive for years because their roots are joined to nearby trees, which keep them fed with sugar.

Trees and pragmatics

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