pizza

«pizza» in Mova's school dictionary: a flat round bread baked with tomato, cheese and other… — 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

noun (pizza, pizzas)

meaning for a pupil

A pizza is a flat round bread baked with tomato, cheese and other toppings on top. It comes from Italy. tree →

sense in the lessons

a thing counted and bought, and a whole cut into equal slices; often used for fractions and sharing; in everyday life: pizza night, ordering pizza, toppings like ham, mushrooms or pineapple; in maths: a pizza drawn as a circle split into equal parts shows fractions

examples

• A pizza is cut into 8 slices. tree →
• Tom ate 3 slices of the pizza. tree →
• They ordered 4 pizzas for 12 children. tree →
• Each pizza costs 9 dollars. tree →
• We had pizza for dinner on Friday. tree →
• What toppings do you like on your pizza? tree →
• If you eat 2 of 8 slices, you eat a quarter of the pizza. tree →
• Pizza comes from Italy. tree →

note

Often a whole split into equal parts: the number of slices tells the denominator. Trap: count whole pizzas and slices separately; 2 pizzas of 8 slices make 16 slices. Trap: half of a big pizza is more than half of a small one. Pronounced «PEET-sa».

In the corpora

• After pizza your fingers are greasy, and rinsing under the tap does almost nothing: water and grease do not mix.
• «I love pizza!» has one, but it is a statement said with feeling.
• Pizza, sandwiches, chips and chicken drumsticks are finger foods, and most other foods are eaten with cutlery.
• Leo sulked and refused pizza, and by the time he wanted some there was one slice left, with no cheese.
• A headline shouted «MAYOR'S SHOCKING SECRET!» Zara read the article: he likes pineapple on pizza.

Trees and pragmatics

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