--- title: Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A real pig walks on four legs, on the tips of two hoofed toes on each foot, and its flat snout is a strong, sensitive digging tool for --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like # Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like Lesson 138 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 12 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/1/) — A real pig walks on four legs, on the tips of two hoofed toes on each foot, and its flat snout is a strong, sensitive digging tool for roots and worms. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/2/) — Pigs are not dirty or stupid: given space, they keep their bed clean and use a toilet spot far away, and in one experiment pigs steered a dot on a screen with a joystick, a bit like George playing games with Daddy Pig. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/3/) — Peppa's family is all pink, but real pigs come in black, ginger, spotted and even curly-haired kinds, and they all come from the brown wild boar. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/4/) — Real pigs love mud: they have very few working sweat glands, so wet mud cools them as it dries, and the coat of mud works as sunscreen and keeps off biting insects. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/5/) — Pale pigs can get sunburnt like fair-skinned people, so farmers sometimes give them shade or sun cream. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/6/) — Pigs can be pink, black, ginger, spotted, belted or hairy, like the curly-coated Mangalica, while wild boar are brown or grey and their piglets have pale stripes that fade as they grow. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/7/) — Pigs walk on four legs, on the tips of two hoofed toes on each foot, with two smaller toes higher up that touch the ground only in soft mud and stop the pig sinking. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/10/) — In an experiment pigs learned to move a joystick with their snouts to hit a target on a screen for a treat, and pigs can learn their names and remember where food was hidden. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/11/) — A pig's snout ends in a flat disc with a tough edge for digging and many nerve endings for feeling and smelling; pigs were trained to sniff out truffles, though many hunters now use dogs because pigs eat them. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/13/) — In many countries it is against the law to feed pigs kitchen leftovers, because meat scraps can spread serious pig diseases. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/14/) — The saying that a pig can never look up is not true; its short, thick, muscly neck just makes it awkward, and pigs see fewer colours than we do and rely more on smell. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/15/) — A mother pig, called a sow, usually has about 8 to 14 piglets; each piglet picks its own teat and goes back to it every feed, which cuts down fights at feeding time, and piglets double their birth weight in about a week. - ← previous: [Kung Fu Panda: real mantises, snakes and monkeys](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/137-kung-fu-panda-real-mantises-snakes-and-monkeys/) - next →: [Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)