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# astride

«astride» in Mova's school dictionary: **With one leg on each side of something, sitting or…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

preposition; adverb (no change in form)

### meaning for a pupil

With one leg on each side of something, sitting or standing across it, such as on the back of an animal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astride/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in tales a rider or a hero sitting on an animal, often a goat, a horse or a cock

### examples

- The boy sat astride the pony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astride/#x1)
- He sat astride the goat and rode off. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astride/#x2)
- Jack my Hedgehog was astride the cock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astride/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «astride» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/astride/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.