puppy

«puppy» in Mova's school dictionary: a young dog — 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 (puppy, puppies)

meaning for a pupil

1) A puppy is a young dog. tree →

2) «Puppy fat» is soft fat some children have that goes away as they grow. tree →

3) «Puppy love» is a young person's first, sweet love. tree →

sense in the lessons

In school maths: a counted animal (4 legs); puppies born, sold or given away; food per puppy each day. In science: mammals feed their young with milk; puppies grow into dogs (life cycles). In everyday life: getting a puppy, training a puppy, caring for pets. Phrases: «a litter of puppies», «puppy training», «puppy dog eyes».

examples

• The dog had 6 puppies. tree →
• She gave away 2 puppies. tree →
• Each puppy eats 3 cups a day. tree →
• How many puppies are left? tree →
• A puppy has 4 legs. tree →
• Our puppy chews everything, even my shoes! tree →
• A puppy needs food, water, walks and love. tree →
• He gave me puppy dog eyes to get a biscuit. tree →
• In the house there are three puppies. tree →

note

Plural «puppies» (y changes to ies). A group of puppies born together is a «litter». Maths: counted animal with 4 legs. Trap: food per puppy per day × puppies × days.

In the corpora

• A chihuahua and a Great Dane are the same species and could in theory have puppies together.
• A pet is for life: a puppy given as a Christmas present grows up and needs many years of care.
• Dogs follow human pointing very well, even as puppies, while wolves and chimpanzees find it hard.
• Dogs have a special eyebrow muscle, which wolves mostly lack, that lifts the inner eyebrow to make puppy eyes.
• Even young puppies can follow a human pointing finger, and dogs see blues and yellows well but not reds and greens.

Trees and pragmatics

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