grasshopper

«grasshopper» in Mova's school dictionary: a green or brown insect with strong back legs that jumps far — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (grasshopper, grasshoppers)

meaning for a pupil

A grasshopper is a green or brown insect with strong back legs that jumps far. tree →

sense in the lessons

the first jumper in a jumping contest; the frog and mouse jumps are told compared to it; in science, a grasshopper is an insect with 6 legs; it makes a chirping sound by rubbing its legs on its wings; phrases: «a grasshopper jumps», «grasshoppers chirp»

examples

• The grasshopper jumped 25 inches. tree →
• The frog jumped 15 inches farther than the grasshopper. tree →
• The mouse jumped 9 inches less than the frog. tree →
• How much farther did the grasshopper jump than the mouse? tree →
• A grasshopper has 6 legs. tree →
• We heard grasshoppers chirping in the long grass. tree →
• The grasshopper jumped onto a leaf. tree →
• Birds and frogs eat grasshoppers. tree →
• A Grasshopper sat chirping in the branches of a tree. tree →

note

Countable: a grasshopper, grasshoppers. A name in a chain of comparisons. Trap: follow the chain step by step (grasshopper → frog → mouse); «farther than» adds, «less than» takes away. Like all insects, it has 6 legs.

In the corpora

• Desert locusts are grasshoppers that, when crowded, change colour and behaviour and form swarms of billions that eat crops.
• Every insect has 6 legs: ants, beetles, bees, ladybirds and grasshoppers all walk on 6 legs.

Trees and pragmatics

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