moved
part of speech
verb past (move, moves, moved, moving); adjective (moved — feeling touched)
meaning for a pupil
1) Moved is the past form of move: it already went or was carried somewhere else. tree →
2) Moved also means you went to live in a new home. tree →
3) If you are moved, a story or music made you feel strong feelings. tree →
sense in the lessons
an action already done: things taken from one group to another, or a family that went to a new home; in stories it often tells a change of place or a deep feeling
examples
- She moved 8 books to the top shelf. tree →
- 5 students moved to another class. tree →
- The family moved to a new house. tree →
- He moved 3 cars from the first row. tree →
- The rock moved when we pushed it hard. tree →
- Grandpa was moved by the song and smiled. tree →
- Our neighbours moved away last year. tree →
- The teacher moved Sam's desk near the window. tree →
- At length the father badger moved away. tree →
note
Things moved away: subtract from the first place and add to the new place. Trap: if they moved within the same group, the total does not change. «Moved» is regular: move + d.
In the corpora
- Happy tears come when people are moved, touched or very happy; they pass quickly and leave people feeling warm.
- In the 1933 film King Kong the giant gorilla was a small model moved by hand a tiny bit at a time.
- Many gulls have moved into towns and nest on flat rooftops, because cities have food and safe roofs away from foxes.
- In 1986 a reactor at the Chornobyl power plant exploded, and people were moved out of a large area around it.
- A mouse has moved in, because a kitchen is warm, dry and full of food.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «moved» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.