morocco

«morocco» in Mova's school dictionary: a country in north-west Africa, across the sea from Spain… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

proper noun (Morocco); noun (morocco — soft leather)

meaning for a pupil

1) Morocco is a country in north-west Africa, across the sea from Spain (a name). tree →

2) Morocco (small m) is a fine soft leather made from goatskin, used for book covers. tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography, Morocco has the Atlas Mountains, the Sahara Desert, and cities like Marrakesh, Rabat and Casablanca; people speak Arabic, Berber (Amazigh) and French. Famous for markets (souks), mint tea and tagines.

examples

• Morocco is in North Africa. tree →
• We drank mint tea in Morocco. tree →
• The Atlas Mountains are in Morocco. tree →
• The old book was bound in red morocco. tree →
• Morocco's capital is Rabat, not Casablanca. tree →
• Morocco reached the World Cup semi-finals. tree →
• And from the General's apartment there arrived a hymn-book bound in morocco, sent by the little lady to whom George had given pictures. tree →

note

Capital M for the country. Adjective: Moroccan. Trap: the capital is Rabat.

In the corpora

• Goats prefer leaves, twigs and shrubs to grass, and in Morocco some goats climb argan trees to eat the fruit.
• In Morocco goats climb argan trees to eat the fruit; goats test things with their mouths but cannot really eat tin cans.
• Yasmin says the oldest university is in Fez, Morocco; Tom says Oxford.

Trees and pragmatics

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