farmer

«farmer» in Mova's school dictionary: a person who owns or works on a farm, growing crops or… — 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 (farmer, farmers)

meaning for a pupil

A farmer is a person who owns or works on a farm, growing crops or raising animals. tree →

sense in the lessons

maths: a person in the story who plants, picks, sells or keeps animals (the numbers are what the farmer has, sells or plants); science: farmers and food, seasons, soil and weather; everyday life: farmers' markets; stories: the farmer and his animals

examples

• A farmer has 15 sheep. tree →
• The farmer sold 40 eggs. tree →
• Each farmer planted 6 rows. tree →
• The farmer picked 120 apples. tree →
• The farmer milks the cows every morning. tree →
• We bought apples at the farmers' market. tree →
• Farmers need rain for their crops. tree →
• The farmer drove the tractor across the field. tree →
• It was the farmer returning home. tree →

note

A person; the numbers are what the farmer has, sells or plants. Trap: none.

In the corpora

• Bumblebees can buzz at a special pitch that shakes pollen out of tomato flowers, and farmers use them in greenhouses.
• Pale pigs can get sunburnt like fair-skinned people, so farmers sometimes give them shade or sun cream.
• Rabbits do eat crops and young vegetables, so farmers see them as pests and fence their fields.
• In Kenya, farmers hang beehives along fences, and the elephants keep away from their fields.
• Some farmers smear fences with chilli and grease or burn chilli bricks, because chilli stings elephants' sensitive trunks.

Trees and pragmatics

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