soup

«soup» in Mova's school dictionary: a hot liquid food made by cooking vegetables, meat, fish… — 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 (soup, soups)

meaning for a pupil

1) Soup is a hot liquid food made by cooking vegetables, meat, fish or other foods in water or stock. tree →

2) «In the soup» (informal) means in trouble. tree →

sense in the lessons

Maths: an amount in bowls, cans, cups or liters; servings shared: bowls = total ÷ size of one bowl. Everyday: tomato soup, chicken soup, vegetable soup, a soup spoon, soup kitchen (free meals for people in need). Health: soup when you have a cold.

examples

• A pot holds 4 liters of soup. tree →
• Each bowl holds 250 mL of soup. tree →
• She bought 6 cans of soup. tree →
• How many bowls can be filled from the pot? tree →
• Blow on your soup if it's too hot. tree →
• Grandma's chicken soup makes me feel better. tree →
• We eat soup with a big round spoon. tree →
• The soup kitchen gives free meals every day. tree →
• For dinner the Fox served soup. tree →

note

Usually uncountable: some soup, a bowl of soup; «soups» for kinds. Total soup ÷ size of one bowl = bowls. Trap: change liters to milliliters first (1 L = 1000 mL). We «eat» soup with a spoon (or «drink» it from a cup).

In the corpora

• Leave a metal spoon in hot soup and soon the handle is too hot to hold, while a wooden spoon stays cool.
• Metals conduct heat well, so a metal spoon in hot soup gets hot while a wooden one stays cool.
• tāng (high) is soup and táng (rising) is sugar or sweets.
• Soup is eaten quietly, sipping from the side of the spoon, without slurping.
• Eat quietly and sip soup from the side of the spoon; loud eating bothers others.

Trees and pragmatics

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