cousin

«cousin» in Mova's school dictionary: the child of your aunt or uncle — 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 (cousin, cousins)

meaning for a pupil

1) A cousin is the child of your aunt or uncle. tree →

2) A first cousin shares your grandparents. tree →

sense in the lessons

maths: a person in the story who gives, gets or shares things; sometimes a count of people; family trees; everyday life: visiting cousins, family parties; stories: cousins on holiday together

examples

• Sam shares 20 candies with his 4 cousins. tree →
• Her cousin is 3 years older. tree →
• Mia has 6 cousins. tree →
• His cousin gave him 5 stickers. tree →
• My cousins live in Canada. tree →
• We played with our cousins at Grandma's house. tree →
• My cousin and I were born in the same year. tree →
• Besides that, they were Fionn’s own cousins. tree →

note

A person; the problem is about what moves between people. Trap: when sharing «with his 4 cousins», check if Sam also gets a share (then 5 people). Spelling: c-o-u-s-i-n, said «KUZ-in».

In the corpora

• Cousins are the children of your aunts and uncles, and families spread out, so some cousins only meet at weddings and funerals.
• Vivid example: in Melbourne, cousin Jess moves into her first rented flat with a bag of old plates from Gran.
• It is a myth that people came from chimps: chimps and humans are cousins who both changed from a common ancestor.
• Porpoises are smaller cousins of dolphins with rounded heads, no long beak and spade-shaped teeth.
• The African forest buffalo is a smaller, reddish cousin of the savanna buffalo, with swept-back horns that fit dense forest.

Trees and pragmatics

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