hop

«hop» in Mova's school dictionary: to jump on one foot — 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

verb (hop, hops, hopped, hopping); noun (a hop, hops)

meaning for a pupil

1) To hop is to jump on one foot. tree →

2) To hop is to move in small jumps, like a rabbit, a frog or a bird. tree →

3) To hop on or off is to get on or off a bus, bike or train quickly. tree →

4) A hop is one small jump. tree →

5) Hops are a plant used in making beer. tree →

sense in the lessons

In maths, jumps of equal size along a number line or path; counted jumps (hops × length). In PE and games: hopscotch, hopping races. In science, kangaroos, rabbits, frogs and many birds hop to move. In stories, a frog hops from lily pad to lily pad. Phrases: «hop on», «hop off», «hop over», «hop on one leg», «hip hop».

examples

• The frog hops 3 metres each time. tree →
• It hops 5 times. tree →
• How far did it hop? tree →
• A rabbit hops 2 steps forward. tree →
• Can you hop on one leg for ten seconds? tree →
• The kangaroo hopped across the field. tree →
• We played hopscotch in the playground. tree →
• Hop on the bus, we're late! tree →
• On the number line, hop from 4 to 10 in jumps of 2. tree →
• The sparrow hopped along the fence. tree →
• Then he hopped out on the deck. tree →

note

Past: hopped; -ing: hopping (double p). Do not confuse with hope (hoped, hoping). Equal hops mean multiplication (hops × length of each hop). Trap: a frog that hops forward 3 and slides back 1 moves 2 each time; on its last hop it may reach the top before sliding.

In the corpora

• The North American wood frog can freeze solid in winter, with its heart stopped, and thaw and hop away in spring.
• Kangaroos hop with springy tendons that store energy like a pogo stick, so hopping fast costs them hardly more energy than hopping slowly.
• Baby hares are born furry with open eyes and can hop soon after birth, while baby rabbits are born bare and blind underground.
• Sifakas are leaping lemurs that hop sideways on two legs across open ground and can leap about ten metres from tree to tree.
• Arctic hares can hop on their back legs like a kangaroo when they run fast, and they sometimes gather in groups of hundreds.

Trees and pragmatics

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