bird

«bird» in Mova's school dictionary: an animal with feathers, wings and a beak; it lays eggs… — 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 (bird, birds)

meaning for a pupil

A bird is an animal with feathers, wings and a beak; it lays eggs, and most birds can fly. tree →

sense in the lessons

a thing counted, often sitting on a fence or a tree; birds come (add) and fly away (take away); in science birds are a group of animals with feathers; phrases: «a flock of birds», «bird's nest», «early bird», «birds of a feather»

examples

• 3 birds were sitting on the fence. tree →
• 4 more birds came to join them. tree →
• 6 birds flew away. tree →
• How many more storks than birds are on the fence? tree →
• A robin is a small bird with a red chest. tree →
• Penguins are birds that cannot fly. tree →
• The bird built a nest in our tree. tree →
• We put out seeds for the birds in winter. tree →
• Fine feathers don’t make fine birds. tree →

note

A thing counted. «came», «joined» add; «flew away» takes away. Trap: storks and birds may be counted separately in the question. Fact: every bird has feathers; bats fly but are not birds; penguins and ostriches are birds but do not fly.

In the corpora

• Some apps identify birds from their songs by matching sounds to recordings they learned from; they can guess the wrong bird.
• In the Road Runner cartoons the bird says «meep meep» and leaves Wile E.
• Crocodile ancestors lived alongside dinosaurs over 200 million years ago, and crocodiles are the closest living relatives of birds.
• Many bird bones are hollow, with thin crossing struts, and some are filled with air connected to the lungs.
• When a perching bird bends its legs, tendons pull its toes tight round the branch, so it can sleep without falling off.

Trees and pragmatics

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