--- title: Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Wild animals, zoos and kindness to 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 are not pets or toys: the kind thing is to watch them calmly from a safe distance and le --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/) [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/) / Wild animals, zoos and kindness to ani… # Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals Lesson 71 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 23 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/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/0/) — Wild animals live their own lives and are not pets or toys: the kind thing is to watch them calmly from a safe distance and let them be. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/1/) — At a zoo or an aquarium the animals are still wild, so we follow the signs, stay behind the barriers, keep quiet and switch off the camera flash. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/2/) — Many things people believe about animals are myths: bats are not blind, owls cannot turn their heads all the way round, and sharks very rarely attack people. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/3/) — Kindness also means thinking about what we leave behind: a released balloon, a lost fishing hook or an uncut plastic drink ring can trap or kill an animal far away. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/4/) — A girl on a beach in Cornwall sees a seal resting on the sand; she keeps her dog on its lead, stays well back and watches quietly, and the seal sleeps on in peace. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/5/) — Seals rest on beaches and can bite, so people stay at least 10 metres away and keep dogs on a lead. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/6/) — Bats can see, and many bats also find their way by echoes, which is called echolocation. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/7/) — An owl cannot move its eyes, so it turns its head, but only about three quarters of the way round. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/8/) — Zoo animals are wild animals and can be dangerous, so visitors stay behind barriers and never climb fences. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/9/) — Banging on glass, shouting and camera flashes frighten and stress animals. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/10/) — In an aquarium touch pool you touch the creatures gently with two fingers, as the staff show you. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/11/) — Sharks rarely attack people, because people are not their normal food. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/12/) — Hurting animals on purpose is cruelty; tell a trusted adult, who can report it to an animal welfare organisation. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/13/) — An adult can call the local animal shelter about a cat or dog that seems abandoned, and the shelter can find its owner or a new home. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/14/) — A magnifying glass in sunshine focuses heat that burns insects, so it is never used on living things. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/15/) — Fishing line, hooks, released balloons and plastic drink rings can tangle animals or be eaten by them. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/16/) — Chasing pigeons or ducks frightens and tires them, so we watch them calmly. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/18/) — Swans and many penguins pair up as a couple, and swans often stay together for life. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/19/) — A family group of lions living together is called a pride. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/20/) — A man climbed over a barrier at a zoo to get closer to a big cat; it struck him through the fence, and he needed surgery on his arm. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/21/) — A boy in Ireland took a baby rabbit from a nest in a field to keep as a pet; it was too young to eat on its own, and in two days it died even though he tried to feed it. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/22/) — Zoo barriers keep people far enough away that an animal cannot reach them; climbing over one has led to serious injuries. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/23/) — Most young wild animals found alone are not lost; their parent is nearby, and taking them away often kills them. - ← previous: [Respecting wild animals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/70-respecting-wild-animals/) - next →: [Keeping garden wildlife safe](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)