--- title: Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Animals outside the home are not pets: they protect themselves, their young and their food, so we give them space and stay c --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/) [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/) / Animals outdoors, on the farm and at t… # Animals outdoors, on the farm and at the zoo Lesson 206 of the everyday 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/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/0/) — Animals outside the home are not pets: they protect themselves, their young and their food, so we give them space and stay calm. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/1/) — You never run from a bear: you stay with adults, speak calmly and back away slowly, because running can make a bear chase you. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/2/) — Many Australian snakes are venomous; if anyone is bitten by any snake you call the emergency number (000 in Australia) and keep the person calm and still, never sucking or cutting the bite. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/3/) — A girl in Yorkshire sees a hedgehog in her garden at night; she puts out a shallow dish of water and some meaty cat food, not milk or bread, because milk makes hedgehogs ill. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/4/) — Sharks rarely attack people, because we are not their normal food; seagulls grab food only because people taught them to by feeding them. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/5/) — To feed a horse a carrot or apple, you ask the owner, then hold the food on a flat palm so fingers are not mistaken for food. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/6/) — Some roosters attack people to protect their hens, so you walk away calmly and tell the owner. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/7/) — A snake in a garden or house in Australia means keep away, keep pets inside and call an adult or a snake catcher. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/8/) — For any snake bite you call the emergency number and keep the person calm and still. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/9/) — Sucking or cutting a snake bite does not work and causes harm. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/10/) — Hedgehogs in the UK and Ireland can have a shallow dish of water or meaty cat food, but never milk or bread, as milk makes them ill. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/11/) — Raccoons in North America can bite and carry rabies, so you keep away from them and keep bins closed. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/12/) — If you meet a bear, you stay with adults, do not run, speak calmly and back away slowly, because running can make it chase you. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/13/) — Feeding seagulls teaches them to snatch food, so you eat in a sheltered spot and do not feed them. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/14/) — Zoo animals are wild and can be dangerous, so visitors follow the signs, stay behind barriers and never climb fences. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/15/) — Sharks rarely attack people because humans are not their normal food. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/16/) — A girl in Colorado climbed into a field to stroke a calf; the mother cow charged, knocked her down and she was badly bruised before a farmer pulled her out. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/17/) — At a farm park in England a boy fed the goats and then ate his sandwich without washing his hands; he caught a stomach bug from the animals and was very ill for days. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/18/) — Cows with calves, bulls and horses are big and strong, and every year people are seriously hurt or killed by farm animals. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/206-animals-outdoors-farm-and-zoo/19/) — Farm animals carry germs such as E. coli that can make children very ill, so you wash hands with soap and water after touching them. - ← previous: [Pet care, food and responsibility](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/205-pet-care-food-and-responsibility/) - next →: [Kindness to animals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/207-kindness-to-animals/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)