barn

«barn» in Mova's school dictionary: a big farm building for animals, hay, crops or tools — 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 (barn, barns)

meaning for a pupil

1) A barn is a big farm building for animals, hay, crops or tools. tree →

2) «Barn owls» often live in barns. tree →

3) «Barn dance» is a party with country dancing. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school maths: a place where animals or bales are counted; animals going in and out of the barn add and take away. In everyday life and stories: farm visits, «Charlotte's Web» is set in a barn, a red barn. Phrases: «in the barn», «barn owl», «barn dance», «hay barn», «couldn't hit a barn door» (very bad at aiming).

examples

• There are 24 cows in the barn. tree →
• The barn holds 300 bales of hay. tree →
• 5 horses left the barn. tree →
• How many animals are in the barn? tree →
• The cows sleep in the barn in winter. tree →
• A barn owl lives in the old barn. tree →
• Wilbur the pig lived in a barn in «Charlotte's Web». tree →
• We went to a barn dance at the farm. tree →
• He went out to the barn and got hold of a flail. tree →

note

Countable: «a barn». Maths: a place of the story; animals in = start + came in − left. Trap: legs in the barn depend on which animals.

In the corpora

• Real farm cats are useful mousers that keep mice and rats away from barns full of grain.
• Farmers have other helpers too: ladybirds that eat aphids and barn owls that hunt mice.
• A barn owl family can eat thousands of mice and voles in a year, so farmers put up owl boxes.
• Picture a barn owl at dusk, floating low over a field.
• Camera traps film them walking down empty streets, and wild Przewalski's horses shelter in old barns.

Trees and pragmatics

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