chocolate
part of speech
noun (chocolate, chocolates); adjective
meaning for a pupil
1) Chocolate is a sweet brown food made from cocoa beans. tree →
2) A chocolate is one sweet made of or covered in chocolate. tree →
3) Chocolate as an adjective means made with chocolate or brown like it: chocolate cake, chocolate brown. tree →
sense in the lessons
a thing counted (bars of chocolate, chocolates) or a kind of milk, cake or cookie; chocolate melts when warm, which is a change of state in science; phrases: «a bar of chocolate», «a box of chocolates», «hot chocolate», «milk chocolate», «dark chocolate»
examples
- She bought 6 bars of chocolate. tree →
- A box holds 24 chocolates. tree →
- He ate 5 chocolates. tree →
- Each chocolate bar costs 2 dollars. tree →
- I drink hot chocolate on cold days. tree →
- The chocolate melted in the hot car. tree →
- Cocoa beans grow on trees in warm countries. tree →
- Chocolate is poisonous to dogs, so never give it to them. tree →
- Mrs. Darling left the room to get a chocolate for him, and Mr. Darling thought this showed want of firmness. tree →
note
Uncountable (some chocolate) and countable (chocolates). A thing counted or a kind word: «chocolate cake» is a cake. Trap: «chocolate» before another noun only says what kind; the counted thing is the noun after it.
In the corpora
- Famous people still buy chocolate, rewear dresses and get haircuts; none of that is a scandal.
- A chatbot has no body, so it cannot taste chocolate, smell flowers or feel tired.
- In black-and-white films, chocolate syrup was used as fake blood because it looked right on screen.
- In experiments, rats opened a cage to free another trapped rat, even when they could have eaten chocolate instead.
- Chocolate is poisonous to dogs, because it contains a chemical that dogs cannot break down well.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «chocolate» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.