tennis

«tennis» in Mova's school dictionary: a sport for two or four players who hit a small ball over… — 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 (tennis)

meaning for a pupil

1) Tennis is a sport for two or four players who hit a small ball over a net with rackets on a court. tree →

2) Table tennis is a different game played on a table with small bats and a light ball. tree →

sense in the lessons

In PE and sport, tennis teaches hand-eye coordination; scores go love (0), 15, 30, 40, then game. Famous tournaments include Wimbledon in England, the US Open and the Australian Open. In maths, tennis scores are a fun puzzle because they do not go up by the same amount each time. Phrases: «play tennis», «tennis ball», «tennis racket», «tennis court».

examples

• We play tennis in the park after school. tree →
• Pass me the tennis racket. tree →
• The tennis ball bounced over the net. tree →
• Wimbledon is a famous tennis tournament. tree →
• In tennis, «love» means zero. tree →
• She hit the ball hard with her tennis racket. tree →
• They played doubles tennis, two against two. tree →
• My brother plays table tennis at the club. tree →
• ‘Sire, this morning we were all playing tennis in the court, the prince and this gentleman with the rest, when there broke out some dispute about the game. tree →

note

Uncountable: «play tennis», not «play a tennis» and not «play the tennis». In tennis scoring, the steps are 15, 15, then 10 (0 → 15 → 30 → 40), which can trap you in a maths question. Spelling: two n's in the middle, then -is.

In the corpora

• "An unforced error" (jargon, from tennis) means a mistake one made all by oneself.
• Keep a safe distance from anyone swinging a racket in tennis or badminton, because rackets can hit faces.
• A boy in England stood close to a friend practising tennis serves; the racket hit him in the face and broke his nose.
• For sports and games French says jouer à: je joue au football, je joue au tennis, je joue aux cartes.
• Popular sports in France include football, rugby, tennis, cycling, handball and judo; baseball is rare there.

Trees and pragmatics

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