farm
part of speech
noun (farm, farms); verb (farm, farms, farmed, farming)
meaning for a pupil
1) A farm is land with buildings where people grow crops and keep animals. tree →
2) To farm is to grow crops or keep animals for food. tree →
3) Some farms raise fish, like a fish farm. tree →
sense in the lessons
maths: a setting with animals, crops, fields and acres counted (count legs per animal); science: where food comes from, crops, seasons, life cycles of animals; everyday life: visiting a farm, farm shops; stories: «Old MacDonald Had a Farm»; safety: wash hands after touching farm animals
examples
- The farm has 20 cows and 35 chickens. tree →
- They grow corn on the farm. tree →
- How many animals are on the farm? tree →
- The farm is 50 acres. tree →
- We visited a farm on our school trip. tree →
- Wash your hands after petting farm animals. tree →
- Milk comes from dairy farms. tree →
- His family has farmed this land for years. tree →
- You shall have a large farm-yard. tree →
note
A word of the story; counts are animals and crops. Trap: when asked for legs, count per animal (cows 4, chickens 2).
In the corpora
- Wild orangutans live only on Borneo and Sumatra and are critically endangered, largely because forests were cut down for palm oil farms.
- Real farm cats are useful mousers that keep mice and rats away from barns full of grain.
- A big leafcutter nest can hold millions of ants, and they have farmed fungus for millions of years, long before people farmed.
- Sumatran elephants are the smallest Asian elephants, and some trained elephants help rangers patrol the forest and lead wild elephants away from farms.
- The eastern brown snake causes more serious bites because it lives near farms and towns where it meets people.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «farm» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.