--- title: Kindness to wild animals — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Kindness to wild animals», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Walking through a meadow, a family finds a baby deer curled up alone in the long grass and wants to rescue it, but its mother is almost certainly --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-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/) / Kindness to wild animals # Kindness to wild animals Lesson 226 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 14 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/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/0/) — Walking through a meadow, a family finds a baby deer curled up alone in the long grass and wants to rescue it, but its mother is almost certainly nearby, feeding, and the kindest thing is to walk quietly away. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/1/) — Being kind to wild animals often means leaving them alone: a frog on a path can be gently moved aside with wet hands or not touched at all, because soap and sun cream on our skin can harm its thin skin, and an ant nest should not be poked just for fun. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/2/) — Our rubbish can hurt animals too: swans get tangled in old fishing line, and ducks and birds get caught in plastic drink rings, so we take line home and cut the rings before throwing them away. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/3/) — A shallow dish of water in hot weather helps birds, bees and hedgehogs, and an injured bird needs a wildlife rescue, not a cardboard box at home. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/5/) — A baby deer, called a fawn, is often left hidden in the grass while its mother feeds nearby, so it should be left alone. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/6/) — Frogs breathe partly through their thin, moist skin, which can be hurt by soap, sun cream and dry hands; it is best not to pick them up. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/7/) — Ants defend their nest when it is poked; small creatures matter and help the world work, by cleaning up and mixing the soil. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/9/) — Animals can get their heads or beaks caught in plastic drink rings, so cutting the rings before throwing them away helps. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/10/) — A shallow dish of water in hot weather helps birds, bees and hedgehogs; a stone in it lets insects climb out. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/11/) — Animals feel pain and fear like us, so hurting them on purpose is wrong. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/12/) — If you find an injured wild bird, tell an adult who can call a wildlife rescue, because wild animals need special care. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/13/) — If a bat flies into a house, open the windows wide, turn off the lights and leave the room; the bat usually finds its own way out, and it should not be touched with bare hands. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/15/) — Dogs are social animals and need company; a dog left chained alone all day becomes lonely and unhappy, and an adult can report it to an animal welfare charity. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/226-kindness-to-wild-animals/16/) — Hedgehogs must never be given cow's milk, which upsets their stomachs; water is best. - ← previous: [Caring for a pet: needs, dangers and responsibility](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/225-caring-for-a-pet-needs-dangers-and-responsibility/) - next →: [The vet](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/227-the-vet/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)