--- title: The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where», a lesson of the biology course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A winter garden looks empty, but fresh snow tells on everyone: in the morning it is like a page --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where/) [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/) / The garden in winter: bare trees, trac… # The garden in winter: bare trees, tracks in the snow and who sleeps where Lesson 336 of the biology course of Mova's primary school: 15 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/336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where/0/) — A winter garden looks empty, but fresh snow tells on everyone: in the morning it is like a page where the night's visitors wrote their names with their feet. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where/1/) — A neat straight line of four-toed prints with claw marks means a fox trotted through, putting its back feet into its front prints; a round print with no claw marks means the neighbour's cat; pairs of tiny prints side by side mean a sparrow hopped past. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where/2/) — Meanwhile the hedgehog under the shed is so deeply asleep that its heart beats about twenty times a minute instead of nearly two hundred, while the squirrel is wide awake, digging up nuts and raiding the bird feeder. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where/3/) — In cartoons winter animals snuggle in cosy burrows with scarves on. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where/4/) — Real ones save energy in different ways: some sleep, some huddle, some eat almost all day, and a robin keeps singing «this garden is mine» even under the streetlights. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where/5/) — Trees drop their leaves to save water when the ground is frozen, bare branches hold less snow, and the buds for next spring are already formed. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where/6/) — A fox walks in a nearly straight line, putting its back feet into its front prints, and its prints show four toes and claw marks; dogs wander about more. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where/7/) — A cat print shows four toes and no claw marks, because cats pull their claws in when walking, and it is rounder than a dog's print; dogs and foxes cannot pull their claws in, so their claw marks show. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where/8/) — Small birds such as sparrows hop and leave pairs of prints, pigeons and crows walk and leave one print after another, and blackbirds can both hop and run. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where/9/) — A hibernating hedgehog's heart slows from about 190 beats a minute to about 20, and its body cools almost to the temperature of the air; it may wake a few times in winter and move nest. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where/10/) — Squirrels do not hibernate: they stay in their nest, called a drey, on the coldest days and eat buried nuts and seeds from feeders. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where/11/) — When a garden pond freezes, frogs may rest in the mud at the bottom; a ball floating on the water keeps a hole open, and the ice must never be smashed with a hammer, because the shock can hurt fish and frogs. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where/12/) — Robins defend territories all year, both males and females, and their song says «this garden is mine»; they can even sing at night under streetlights. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where/13/) — Small birds burn a lot of energy staying warm, and a small bird can lose about a tenth of its weight in one cold night, so fat balls help, and water is as important as food in freezing weather. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/336-the-garden-in-winter-bare-trees-tracks-in-the-snow-and-who-sleeps-where/14/) — Ladybirds hibernate together in clusters in sheltered spots like window frames, which helps them stay warm and safe, and they come out again in spring. - ← previous: [The garden in autumn: colours, conkers, webs and buried nuts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/335-the-garden-in-autumn-colours-conkers-webs-and-buried-nuts/) - next →: [The park pond through the year: ducks, coots, swans, dragonflies and ice](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/337-the-park-pond-through-the-year-ducks-coots-swans-dragonflies-and-ice/) - ↑ back to [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/)