dance
part of speech
verb (dance, dances, danced, dancing); noun (a dance, dances; dance — the art)
meaning for a pupil
1) To dance is to move your body to music. tree →
2) A dance is one set of steps, like a waltz or a tap dance. tree →
3) A dance is also a party where people dance. tree →
4) Dance is the art of dancing, like ballet. tree →
sense in the lessons
maths: an event with tickets or people, or a lesson time; dance classes often have a time each week (total time = time per class × classes); PE: dance lessons; everyday life: school dances, dancing at weddings; culture: dances from many countries; science: bees do a dance to show where flowers are
examples
- Tickets to the school dance cost $5. tree →
- She dances for 2 hours every Saturday. tree →
- 30 children came to the dance. tree →
- Each dance lasts 4 minutes. tree →
- We learned a new dance in PE. tree →
- Bees dance to tell other bees where flowers are. tree →
- They danced all night at the wedding. tree →
- She goes to ballet dance class. tree →
- "I don't like dancing," he said. tree →
note
A word of the story; the numbers are people, time or money. Trap: none special. Drop the e before -ing: dancing.
In the corpora
- Falling is part of learning to dance, and many viral videos took the dancer dozens of tries.
- Almost everyone can learn to dance with practice and by listening for the beat, the steady pulse of the music.
- Hopak is a lively Ukrainian folk dance with big jumps and squat-kicks, linked to Cossack traditions.
- Viral dances are made by real people, often young creators, and naming them when you copy their dance is fair.
- Dancing in a group first can build the confidence to dance alone, and many dancers are shy off stage.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «dance» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.