cocoa

«cocoa» in Mova's school dictionary: a brown powder made from roasted cacao beans, used to… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 4 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (cocoa — uncountable; a cocoa — a cup of it)

meaning for a pupil

1) Cocoa is a brown powder made from roasted cacao beans, used to make chocolate drinks and to flavour cakes. tree →

2) Cocoa is a hot drink made from this powder with milk or water, also called hot chocolate. tree →

3) Cocoa beans grow in pods on the cacao tree in hot tropical countries. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography and science lessons, cocoa beans come from countries like Côte d'Ivoire, Ghana and Brazil; pupils learn how beans become chocolate and about fair trade for farmers. In everyday life, a mug of cocoa warms you on a cold evening. Phrases: «a cup of cocoa», «cocoa powder», «cocoa beans», «cocoa butter».

examples

• Mum made us a mug of hot cocoa. tree →
• Add two spoons of cocoa powder to the cake mix. tree →
• Cocoa beans grow in big pods on trees. tree →
• Chocolate is made from cocoa beans. tree →
• Most cocoa is grown in West Africa. tree →
• Cocoa tastes bitter without sugar. tree →
• Fair trade cocoa helps farmers get a fair price. tree →
• We drank cocoa by the campfire. tree →

note

Spelling trap: cocoa (o-a at the end), not «cocao». Cacao is the tree and raw bean; cocoa is the powder and drink. Do not confuse with «coconut» or «coca». Chocolate is poisonous to dogs.

In the corpora

• Fresh cocoa beans taste bitter and smell of chocolate only after fermenting, drying and roasting.
• Fresh cocoa beans taste bitter and nothing like chocolate; the chocolate taste comes from fermenting and roasting.
• Bananas, cocoa and coffee grow only in warm tropical places.
• Chocolate is made from the seeds of the cocoa tree.

Trees and pragmatics

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