tagger
part of speech
noun (a tagger, taggers)
meaning for a pupil
1) A tagger is a person who sprays or writes their nickname or sign (a tag) on walls, trains or buildings, often without permission, which is illegal vandalism. tree →
2) In the playground game of tag (UK: tig, it), the tagger is the player who chases and touches the others. tree →
3) (computing) A tagger is a computer program that labels things automatically, for example labelling each word in a sentence as noun, verb or adjective (a part-of-speech tagger). tree →
4) A tagger is also a person or tool that attaches tags or labels, as on clothes or animals. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life and citizenship lessons, taggers and graffiti raise questions about property and art. In the playground, the tagger is "it". In computing and language science, taggers help computers understand text. Phrases: "graffiti tagger", "part-of-speech tagger".
examples
- Taggers had sprayed their names on the bus shelter. tree →
- The council paid to clean up the taggers' graffiti. tree →
- In the game, Mia was the tagger and chased us round the field. tree →
- If the tagger touches you, you become the tagger. tree →
- A part-of-speech tagger marks "run" as a verb or a noun. tree →
- The scientist used a tagger to put tracking tags on the birds. tree →
- Graffiti by taggers is against the law without permission. tree →
note
Countable. In the UK the chase game is often called "tig" or "it", in the USA "tag". A graffiti tag is a quick signature; a "piece" is a large, artistic graffiti picture.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «tagger» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.