--- title: Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Peppa's friends are cartoon animals that talk and go to school, but each one is based on a re --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/) [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's friends as real animals: sheep… # Peppa's friends as real animals: sheep, ponies, parrots, gazelles, kangaroos Lesson 139 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 17 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/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/0/) — Peppa's friends are cartoon animals that talk and go to school, but each one is based on a real animal with its own clever tricks. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/1/) — Look a sheep in the eye and you will see a long sideways slit for a pupil, giving it a wide view of the ground all around so it can spot a fox while it grazes. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/2/) — A real parrot copies words the way a wild parrot copies its flock, and it climbs its cage using its beak as a third foot. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/3/) — Rebecca Rabbit living in a burrow is the one that is true to life, while Danny Dog's grandad and every other dog, tiny or huge, all belong to one kind of animal that came from wolves. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/4/) — Real sheep live in flocks, stay close to their friends and get stressed when alone, because a lone sheep is easy for a fox or dog to catch. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/5/) — In experiments sheep learned to recognise the faces of other sheep and of some famous people from photos. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/6/) — Sheep and goats have long rectangular pupils lying sideways; when they bend to graze their eyes turn so the pupil stays level, and they can see almost all the way around without moving their heads. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/7/) — Most farm sheep grow wool that never stops, so they must be shorn at least once a year, while wild sheep shed their coats every spring; an Australian merino that escaped shearing for years carried about 41 kilograms of fleece. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/8/) — Ponies are small horses, usually under about 1.47 metres at the shoulder, often from cold hilly places like Shetland, Wales or Dartmoor, with short legs and thick coats for wind and rain. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/9/) — For its size a Shetland pony is one of the strongest horses and once pulled carts in coal mines. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/10/) — Horses and ponies graze up to about 16 hours a day, a little at a time, because their stomachs are small, and they cannot vomit, so a bad meal can make them very ill. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/11/) — Many parrots copy words and sounds such as phones and doorbells, the way wild parrots copy their flock's calls; an African grey called Alex learned to name over 50 objects, colours and shapes. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/12/) — Parrots use their strong curved beaks to crack nuts and as a third foot for climbing, and they hold food in one foot, many being left-footed or right-footed. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/13/) — Gazelles are slim, fast antelopes of Africa and Asia that escape cheetahs and lions by running and dodging, and they sometimes bounce on stiff legs, called pronking or stotting, which may tell a hunter «I am fit, don't chase me». - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/15/) — Kangaroos find walking backwards very hard, and a popular story says that is why they are on Australia's coat of arms, as a sign of going forward. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/16/) — Wild rabbits really live in burrows joined into big tunnel systems called warrens, with many exits for escape; some warrens have been used for over a hundred years. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/139-peppas-friends-as-real-animals/17/) — All pet dogs, from tiny chihuahuas to great danes, are one kind of animal, bred by people for hunting, herding, guarding and company, and they descend from wolves tamed at least 15,000 years ago. - ← previous: [Peppa Pig: what real pigs are like](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/138-peppa-pig-real-pigs/) - next →: [Paw Patrol: real police, fire, rescue and sniffer dogs](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/140-paw-patrol-real-working-dogs/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)