chicago

«chicago» in Mova's school dictionary: a big city in the United States, in the state of… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

proper noun (Chicago)

meaning for a pupil

1) Chicago is a big city in the United States, in the state of Illinois, on the shore of Lake Michigan. tree →

2) It is the third-largest city in the USA. tree →

sense in the lessons

maths: a name of a place in the story; distances or trips, flights, temperatures; geography: a big city by Lake Michigan, called «the Windy City»; stories and news: sports teams, tall buildings, deep-dish pizza

examples

• The train goes from Chicago to Detroit, 280 miles. tree →
• 300 people flew to Chicago. tree →
• It is 20 degrees in Chicago. tree →
• The bus to Chicago leaves at 9:00. tree →
• Chicago is next to Lake Michigan. tree →
• Chicago is often windy in winter. tree →
• We saw tall buildings in Chicago. tree →

note

No clue about the operation; it names a place. Always write it with a capital C. Say «shi-KAH-go».

In the corpora

• Example: a girl in Glasgow and a girl in Chicago both say they love «football».
• In Chicago, Darnell has a half-brother in Texas he's never met; they FaceTime on Sundays.
• That is how a warming world can still have a freezing week in Chicago and a record 40 degrees in England.

Trees and pragmatics

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