--- title: Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A rainbow forms when sunlight goes into raindrops, bends and comes back out split into --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/) [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/) / Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, bl… # Rainbows, beach earthquakes, lambs, blackberries, cacti, fire ants and bee stings Lesson 326 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 21 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/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/0/) — A rainbow forms when sunlight goes into raindrops, bends and comes back out split into colours, so to watch a rainbow you stand with the sun behind you and look towards the rain. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/1/) — A rainbow is light, not a thing in one place, so you can never walk to the end of a rainbow: it moves as you move. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/2/) — An earthquake at the beach is special: if the shaking is long or strong, a tsunami may follow within minutes, so you go to high ground or inland at once. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/3/) — «Long or strong, get gone.» - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/4/) — Example: a boy on a beach near Napier in New Zealand feels the ground shake for almost a minute. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/5/) — He does not wait for a siren; he runs with his family up the hill behind the town. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/6/) — Nature is lovely to look at but not always to touch: lambs in spring fields, blackberries on a hedge, cacti in the desert and fire ant nests all need care. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/7/) — Speak quietly in nature and leave loud music at home, because noise frightens animals and disturbs other visitors. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/8/) — To see a rainbow, stand with the sun behind you and look towards the rain. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/9/) — A rainbow forms when sunlight bends inside raindrops and splits into colours; you cannot reach the end of a rainbow. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/10/) — If an earthquake at the beach or on the coast is long or strong, go to high ground or inland at once, because a tsunami may come within minutes. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/11/) — In spring, look at the lambs in the fields but keep away and keep dogs on a lead, because ewes panic and dogs can chase and hurt sheep. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/12/) — Pick blackberries only when a grown-up has identified them, above dog height and away from roads, and wash them first, because some berries look alike and some are poisonous. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/13/) — Look at cacti but do not touch them: cactus spines go into skin and are hard to get out. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/15/) — Making a lot of noise in nature frightens animals and disturbs other visitors, so speak quietly. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/16/) — A honeybee usually dies after stinging a person, because its barbed sting gets stuck in the skin. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/18/) — After a bee sting, scrape the sting out sideways with a fingernail, cool the spot and tell an adult; get help at once if it swells a lot or breathing is hard. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/19/) — A boy in California sat on a fire ant nest at a picnic; hundreds of ants stung him, and he had painful blisters for days. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/20/) — A dog off its lead in Wales chased a field of lambs; several were hurt, and the farmer was allowed by law to stop the dog. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/21/) — Fire ants sting many times each, and many stings at once can make a person ill. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/326-rainbows-beach-quakes-lambs-berries-cacti-and-ants/22/) — Dogs chasing sheep kill and injure many lambs every spring. - ← previous: [Outdoors: icy playgrounds, blisters, cliff edges, trail markers, quarries, campfire burns, river crossings, bridges and pool safety](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/325-icy-playgrounds-hiking-edges-quarries-burns-rivers-bridges-and-pools/) - next →: [Toy age labels, cords, pretend play, card games, motion games, hammers and paintbrushes](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/327-toy-age-labels-cords-card-games-and-crafts/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)