green
part of speech
adjective (green, greener, greenest); noun (green, greens)
meaning for a pupil
1) Green is the colour of grass and leaves. tree →
2) Green means not ripe yet: «green bananas». tree →
3) Green means good for nature: «green energy». tree →
4) A green is a grassy area: a village green. tree →
5) Greens are green vegetables. tree →
sense in the lessons
a colour that tells one kind of a thing from another: green apples, green peaches, green marbles; in science and art, blue and yellow make green; plants are green because of chlorophyll; phrases: «green light» (go), «green with envy», «go green», «eat your greens»
examples
- There are 7 red peaches and 15 green peaches. tree →
- How many green apples are in the basket? tree →
- How many more green peaches than red? tree →
- She has 12 green marbles. tree →
- The grass is green after the rain. tree →
- Wait for the green man before you cross. tree →
- Blue and yellow make green. tree →
- Eat your greens; they are good for you. tree →
note
A kind word, not a quantity. It picks which group the number belongs to. Trap: «how many more green than red» is a difference; «how many peaches» adds all colours. Safety: cross the road only when the green man shows.
In the corpora
- Red-green colour blindness affects about 1 in 12 men of European descent.
- Green algae grow in a sloth's fur and help to hide it among the leaves.
- Scorpions are arachnids whose outer shell glows blue-green under ultraviolet light; mothers carry their babies on their backs.
- Deer see fewer colours than we do, so to them an orange tiger looks much like the green and brown leaves around it.
- Green algae grow in sloth fur and give camouflage among leaves, and moths live in the fur too.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «green» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.