underground

«underground» in Mova's school dictionary: below the surface of the ground — 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

adjective (underground); adverb (underground); noun (the underground)

meaning for a pupil

1) Underground means below the surface of the ground. tree →

2) The underground is a railway that runs in tunnels under a city (in London called the Tube; in the USA the subway). tree →

3) Underground can describe something secret or hidden from the authorities. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science lessons roots, burrows, caves, water and many animals (moles, rabbits, worms) live underground; coal and oil are found underground. In everyday life people travel on the underground. In history, people hid in underground shelters or ran underground groups. Phrases: go underground, underground station, underground train, underground water.

examples

• Moles live underground. tree →
• Carrots grow underground. tree →
• We took the underground to the museum. tree →
• Mind the gap on the underground platform. tree →
• Rabbits dig underground tunnels called burrows. tree →
• Water flows underground in some caves. tree →
• Miners work deep underground. tree →
• During the war people sheltered in underground stations. tree →
• "They are playing at work underground, like moles," said she. tree →

note

It can be an adjective (an underground cave) or an adverb (they live underground). «The Underground» with a capital U often means the London railway. In the USA it is the «subway»; in British English a «subway» is a tunnel for walking under a road. Never go into old mines or drains — they can flood or collapse.

In the corpora

• Leafcutter ants do not eat the leaves they carry: they chew them to grow a fungus garden underground and eat the fungus.
• Baby hares are born furry with open eyes and can hop soon after birth, while baby rabbits are born bare and blind underground.
• A potato is a swollen underground stem called a tuber, and its eyes are buds; a sweet potato really is a root.
• Peanuts are seeds that grow in pods underground like peas and beans, and some people are badly allergic to them.
• Potatoes are swollen underground stems that store food, and the eyes on a potato are buds that can grow into new plants.

Trees and pragmatics

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