--- title: Respecting wild animals — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Respecting wild animals», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Wild animals live their own lives, and the best way to love them is to watch quietly from a distance and leave their homes as you found them. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/) [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/) / Respecting wild animals # Respecting wild animals Lesson 70 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/70-respecting-wild-animals/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/0/) — Wild animals live their own lives, and the best way to love them is to watch quietly from a distance and leave their homes as you found them. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/1/) — Food changes how wild animals behave: bears come to food smells at a campsite, and gulls that are fed learn to snatch food from people, so people store food safely and do not feed them. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/2/) — Many animals that look lost or helpless are fine: a fawn or a young hare alone in a field is hidden on purpose, and its mother comes back to feed it. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/4/) — A boy in New Zealand walks his dog on a lead in a forest where kiwi live. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/5/) — A kiwi is a rare bird that cannot fly, and even a friendly dog off its lead can kill one in seconds. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/6/) — When camping where bears live, food is kept in a bear box or a car, never in the tent, because bears are attracted by food smells. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/8/) — A koala, wombat or other wild animal hurt on the road should be helped by wildlife rescue, not by children. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/9/) — Many native New Zealand birds such as the kiwi are endangered, and dogs can kill them, so dogs stay on leads in kiwi areas. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/10/) — Alligators live in Florida and the southern USA, can move fast and attack, so you stay well away from the water's edge in alligator areas. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/11/) — Deer are easily frightened, and stags can be dangerous in autumn, so you watch them quietly from a distance. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/12/) — A fawn or young hare alone in a field is not abandoned; its mother leaves it hidden and comes back to feed it. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/13/) — Rodents can carry diseases, so you do not touch a mouse or rat or its droppings. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/14/) — A wild animal that acts oddly tame or strange may be sick, sometimes with rabies. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/15/) — A bird stunned by hitting a window can be put in a box in a quiet, dark place by an adult, and most recover after a rest. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/16/) — Tadpoles need their pond to grow, so frogspawn is left where it is. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/17/) — Logs and stones turned over to look for creatures are put back the way they were, because small animals live under them. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/18/) — Shells with living animals inside are left on the beach, because the animals die when taken from their home. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/19/) — Feeding gulls teaches them to grab food from people. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/20/) — A jellyfish on the beach can still sting even if it looks dead. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/21/) — A family in Yellowstone walked up close to a bison to take a photo; it charged and threw the father into the air, and he was taken to hospital with broken ribs. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/22/) — A girl in Florida held out a sandwich to a goose by a lake; the goose bit her hand hard and flapped at her, and she fell backwards onto the path and cut her head. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/24/) — Wild animals that are fed by people lose their fear, come closer and are more likely to bite. - ← previous: [Spiders, snakes and wild neighbours](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/69-spiders-snakes-and-wild-neighbours/) - next →: [Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)