goat
part of speech
noun (goat, goats)
meaning for a pupil
1) A goat is an animal with horns and often a beard, kept on farms for milk, meat and wool. tree →
2) Wild goats live in the mountains and are very good climbers. tree →
3) A baby goat is a kid; a male is a billy goat and a female is a nanny goat. tree →
sense in the lessons
In school maths: a counted animal with 4 legs; milk per goat (goats × litres each); legs puzzles with goats and chickens. In science: goats are mammals and herbivores. In stories: «The Three Billy Goats Gruff». Phrases: «billy goat», «goat's milk», «goat's cheese», «GOAT» (slang: the greatest of all time).
examples
- A farmer has 8 goats. tree →
- Each goat gives 2 litres of milk. tree →
- Goats and chickens have 50 legs. tree →
- How many legs do 6 goats have? tree →
- A goat has 4 legs. tree →
- The Three Billy Goats Gruff crossed the troll's bridge. tree →
- Mountain goats can climb steep rocks. tree →
- We fed the baby goats at the petting zoo. tree →
- “Little goat, bleat, Little table, appear,” tree →
note
Countable: «a goat». A young goat is a «kid» — the same word as for a child. Maths: counted animal with 4 legs. Trap: in goats and chickens puzzles the legs differ (4 and 2).
In the corpora
- Sheep and goats are cousins that people have kept for about ten thousand years, but they live very different lives.
- Goats prefer leaves, twigs and shrubs to grass, and in Morocco some goats climb argan trees to eat the fruit.
- Cartoons get a lot wrong: a bull does not hate the colour red, and a goat does not munch tin cans.
- In Morocco goats climb argan trees to eat the fruit; goats test things with their mouths but cannot really eat tin cans.
- Horns are different: a cow or goat keeps its horns for life, a bone core inside a cover of keratin.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «goat» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.