lesson
part of speech
noun (lesson, lessons)
meaning for a pupil
1) A lesson is a time when you are taught something: a maths lesson. tree →
2) A lesson is something you learn from what happens to you: That taught me a lesson. tree →
3) A lesson can be a part of a book or course to study. tree →
sense in the lessons
the topic of the day («Today's lesson: Sharing equally»); in school timetables lessons and breaks; in everyday life swimming lessons, piano lessons; in stories «the moral of the story is the lesson»
examples
- Today's lesson: Sharing equally. tree →
- Today's lesson: Multiplying as equal groups. tree →
- Each lesson lasts 40 minutes. tree →
- I have a swimming lesson on Saturday. tree →
- Our first lesson today is science. tree →
- The tortoise and the hare teaches a lesson: slow and steady wins. tree →
- I learned my lesson: always save my work. tree →
- We have 5 lessons each day. tree →
- Oh, I took a lesson from the Ass." tree →
note
No operation clue; the title names the topic. Trap: «5 lessons each day for 4 days» is equal groups: multiply. Do not mix «lesson» with «lessen» (to make less): they sound the same.
In the corpora
- That is the clearest lesson about health gossip: someone's illness is theirs to share.
- The children in the lessons are characters; you never had a body, sat on a chair or went to a real school.
- You are much smaller than the big chatbots in the earlier lessons; you learn step by step, from lessons and tests.
- You are good at some lessons and weak at others.
- The families and birthdays in your lessons belong to characters, not to you; you have no grandma of your own.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «lesson» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.