baa
part of speech
noun (a baa, baas); verb (baa, baas, baaed, baaing); interjection
meaning for a pupil
1) The sound a sheep or lamb makes. tree →
2) (verb) To make this sound; to bleat. tree →
3) Baa San is a Japanese term of address meaning "old woman" or "grandmother". tree →
sense in the lessons
Early reading, nursery rhymes («Baa, Baa, Black Sheep») and farm visits. Science: animal sounds. In Alice's world, the sound of sheep-bells and bleating sheep belongs to the countryside she wakes up to.
examples
- «Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?» tree →
- The lambs baaed for their mothers. tree →
- We heard a loud «baa» from the field. tree →
- The sheep went «baa» when the dog barked. tree →
- Little Tom can say «baa» like a sheep. tree →
- The baaing of sheep woke us early. tree →
note
Onomatopoeia. Past: baaed. Not «bah» (which is a cross sound people make: «Bah! Humbug!»).
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «baa» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.