--- title: Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Your breakfast is a farm tour: milk from a cow, an egg from a hen, maybe bacon from a pig, and the wool jumper you pull on came fr --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/) [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/) / Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat # Farm animals: milk, eggs, wool and meat Lesson 287 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 20 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/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/0/) — Your breakfast is a farm tour: milk from a cow, an egg from a hen, maybe bacon from a pig, and the wool jumper you pull on came from a sheep. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/1/) — A cow gives milk because, like every mammal mother, she makes it for her calf. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/2/) — A dairy cow can give 25 to 30 litres a day, and today many are milked by machines or even robots that the cow walks into by herself. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/3/) — Animals are not machines, though. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/4/) — A cow chews grass twice, a pig rolls in mud to keep cool, and a sheepdog moves sheep the way a wolf would, because sheep bunch together for safety. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/5/) — Cartoons get a lot wrong: a bull does not hate the colour red, and a goat does not munch tin cans. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/6/) — Real farm animals are cleverer and stranger than the cartoon ones. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/7/) — Cows give milk after they have had a calf, because mammals make milk for their babies; a dairy cow gives about 25 to 30 litres a day. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/8/) — Milk is cooled, heated to kill germs and then bottled. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/9/) — A hen lays about one egg a day in good times, with or without a cockerel; shop eggs are not fertilised and could never hatch. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/10/) — The colour of an eggshell depends on the hen's breed, not on how healthy the egg is. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/11/) — A cow has one stomach with four parts; microbes in the first part break down grass, and the cow brings it back up to chew again, which is called chewing the cud. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/12/) — Microbes in a cow's stomach make methane, a gas that warms the planet; most of it leaves in burps, not farts, and farmers are testing seaweed in feed to cut it. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/14/) — Sheep flock together for safety, a sheepdog moves them like a wolf would, the shepherd directs the dog with whistles, and sheep are sheared about once a year, so their fleece can be spun into wool and they stay cool in summer. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/15/) — Ham, bacon and sausages come from pigs; some families eat no pork for religious reasons, Jews and Muslims for example, and some eat no meat at all. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/16/) — Free-range hens can go outside, caged hens live inside buildings, and many countries have banned the smallest cages. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/17/) — In Morocco goats climb argan trees to eat the fruit; goats test things with their mouths but cannot really eat tin cans. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/18/) — Bulls cannot see red well; it is the moving cape that makes a bull charge, and a waved blue cape would work just the same. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/19/) — About half of the fish people eat now comes from fish farms, such as salmon, carp and prawn farms, which can take pressure off wild fish but can also spread disease and pollution. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/287-farm-animals-milk-eggs-wool-and-meat/20/) — There are about a billion cattle on Earth. - ← previous: [From field to plate: wheat, flour and bread](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/286-from-field-to-plate-wheat-flour-and-bread/) - next →: [Plants we eat: roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/288-plants-we-eat-roots-stems-leaves-flowers-fruits-and-seeds/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)