duck

«duck» in Mova's school dictionary: a bird with a flat beak and webbed feet that swims and… — 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 (duck, ducks); verb (duck, ducks, ducked, ducking)

meaning for a pupil

1) A duck is a bird with a flat beak and webbed feet that swims and says «quack». A duck has 2 legs. tree →

2) To duck means to bend down quickly so you are not hit or seen. tree →

3) In cricket, a duck is a score of zero. tree →

sense in the lessons

maths: birds counted on a pond or farm, with legs (2 each) and eggs; more come (add), some fly away (subtract); science: birds, webbed feet, waterproof feathers; a baby duck is a duckling; everyday life: feeding ducks at the park (oats or seeds are better than bread); stories: «The Ugly Duckling»

examples

• There are 9 ducks on the pond. tree →
• 4 more ducks came. tree →
• Each duck has 2 legs. tree →
• How many ducks are left if 3 fly away? tree →
• The duck says quack. tree →
• Duck! The ball is coming. tree →
• The mother duck led her ducklings to the water. tree →
• The batsman was out for a duck. tree →
• Out popped the duck and flew away. tree →

note

Thing counted. Trap: legs: 2 per duck, but 4 per cow or dog. A male duck is a drake.

In the corpora

• Bread fills ducks with little goodness and rotting leftovers dirty the pond; oats, peas, sweetcorn or duck food are better.
• Duck-billed dinosaurs, or hadrosaurs, such as Edmontosaurus had hundreds of teeth packed together to grind plants.
• Cartoon ducks gobble whole loaves of bread and cartoon swans break people's arms.
• Real ducks are better off with peas and oats, and a swan just wants you to give it space.
• Ducks' feet stay just above freezing on ice because warm blood flowing in heats the cold blood coming back.

Trees and pragmatics

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