pig
part of speech
noun (a pig, pigs; piglet for a baby)
meaning for a pupil
1) A pig is a farm animal with a pink or dark body, a flat nose called a snout, short legs and a curly tail; it says «oink». tree →
2) Calling a person a pig (informal, rude) means they eat too much, are messy, or are greedy. tree →
sense in the lessons
In science, pigs are mammals; a mother pig is a sow, a father is a boar and a baby is a piglet; they live in a pigsty or pen. On farms they give pork, bacon and ham. In stories: The Three Little Pigs, Peppa Pig, Charlotte's Web. Phrases: guinea pig (a different animal), piggy bank, «when pigs fly» (never).
examples
- The pig rolled in the mud to keep cool. tree →
- A baby pig is called a piglet. tree →
- Pigs are clever animals. tree →
- The farmer feeds the pigs every morning. tree →
- I saved my coins in a piggy bank. tree →
- The three little pigs built three houses. tree →
- Pigs have a strong sense of smell. tree →
- «I will tidy my room when pigs fly!» tree →
note
Countable: one pig, two pigs. Myth: pigs are not dirty by nature; they roll in mud because they cannot sweat and need to cool down. A guinea pig is not a pig, it is a small rodent. Calling someone a pig is rude.
In the corpora
- The ancestors of elephants, around 55 million years ago, were pig-sized animals with no trunk.
- Black and brown bear cubs are born in the den in midwinter and are only about the size of a guinea pig.
- A hippo's closest living relatives are whales and dolphins, not pigs.
- Pale pigs can get sunburnt like fair-skinned people, so farmers sometimes give them shade or sun cream.
- In many countries it is against the law to feed pigs kitchen leftovers, because meat scraps can spread serious pig diseases.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «pig» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.