--- title: Pet care, food and responsibility — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Pet care, food and responsibility», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A pet depends on you for everything: the right food, the right warmth, shade, play and care for its whole life. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Pet care, food and responsibility # Pet care, food and responsibility Lesson 205 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 22 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/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/0/) — A pet depends on you for everything: the right food, the right warmth, shade, play and care for its whole life. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/1/) — Human food is not pet food: onions, garlic, chocolate, grapes, salt and the sweetener xylitol can make dogs and cats very ill, so a pet eats its own food. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/2/) — Reptiles such as bearded dragons and snakes cannot make their own body heat, so the lamp and heat mat an adult set up must stay on as set. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/3/) — A girl in Florida sees her dog chewing a sock and a packet of pills; she tells her mum at once, because the sock could block its gut and the pills could poison it, and the vet may need to help quickly. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/4/) — A pet is a responsibility for life: you learn about the animal before choosing it, introduce newcomers slowly, and never abandon it. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/5/) — If a dog eats medicine, a sock or anything it should not, you tell an adult straight away. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/6/) — Some swallowed things can poison a dog or block its gut and need a vet. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/7/) — Reptiles cannot make their own body heat and get ill if they are cold, so their lamp and heat mat stay on as an adult set them up. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/8/) — Onions, garlic, chocolate, grapes, salt and xylitol sweetener can make pets very ill, so pets eat their own food. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/9/) — A pet should come from a rescue centre or a good breeder, and you learn how to care for the animal before choosing it. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/10/) — Pets from bad sellers are often ill, and every kind of animal needs different care. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/11/) — A new baby or a new pet is introduced to a pet slowly, always with an adult watching, because animals can feel jealous or scared. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/12/) — Abandoning a pet is cruel and against the law; if a family really cannot keep it, a shelter helps find it a new home. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/13/) — In play, let a pet catch the toy sometimes, because play that always ends in frustration makes animals stressed or snappy. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/14/) — Small animals in cages and hutches can overheat and die quickly in the sun, so their homes are kept in the shade. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/15/) — A bored pet can become unhappy and destructive; toys, play, walks and new things to sniff keep it happy. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/16/) — After a pet dies, the family waits until it is ready before getting a new one, because a new pet does not replace the old one. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/17/) — A family's dog ate a bar of dark chocolate left on the coffee table; within hours it was shaking and being sick, and the vet had to treat it overnight. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/18/) — A boy's hamster had no fresh water over a hot weekend while he was away; when he came back it was very weak, and it died a few days later. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/19/) — Chocolate, grapes, raisins, onions and the sweetener xylitol can poison dogs, and some can kill them. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/20/) — Small pets can become seriously ill within a day or two without water, so water must be checked every single day. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/21/) — Lilies are poisonous to cats; even a nibbled leaf or a little pollen can make a cat very ill, so tell an adult and call the vet at once. - ← previous: [Pranks: harmless fun or real harm?](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/204-pranks/) - next →: [Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)