six

«six» in Mova's school dictionary: the number 6, one more than five — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

number (six, sixes); noun (a six)

meaning for a pupil

1) Six is the number 6, one more than five. tree →

2) A six is the digit 6, or a hit worth six runs in cricket. tree →

3) «At sixes and sevens» means in a muddle. tree →

sense in the lessons

an amount told in words; it may be the number of groups, not the number of things («six boxes with four toys in each» = 6 × 4); in maths a dice has 6 faces, a hexagon has 6 sides, an insect has 6 legs; in everyday life «six o'clock»

examples

• Student: six apples and three pears. tree →
• Six birds sit on a branch. tree →
• Sam has six boxes with four toys in each. tree →
• An insect has 6 legs. tree →
• A dice has six sides with dots from 1 to 6. tree →
• I get up at six o'clock. tree →
• A box of six eggs is half a dozen. tree →
• Six is an even number. tree →
• Nana, it isn’t six o’clock yet. tree →

note

A number word: read it as 6. Trap: it may be the number of groups, not the number of things. An insect has 6 legs; half a dozen is 6. Order word «sixth» (6th). Six is even: 6 = 3 + 3.

In the corpora

• Jake pretended to start a fight with Sam to look tough in front of the Year Sixes.

Trees and pragmatics

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