--- title: Keeping garden wildlife safe — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Keeping garden wildlife safe», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A garden is a home not only for people but for birds, hedgehogs, frogs, mice and insects, and many ordinary things in a garden can be traps --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/) [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/) / Keeping garden wildlife safe # Keeping garden wildlife safe Lesson 72 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 16 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/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/0/) — A garden is a home not only for people but for birds, hedgehogs, frogs, mice and insects, and many ordinary things in a garden can be traps for them. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/1/) — A bucket of water is a pond with steep slippery walls: a small animal that falls in cannot climb out, unless there is a cover or a stick to climb up. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/2/) — A pile of sticks waiting for a bonfire looks like a perfect hiding place to a hedgehog, so the pile is checked, or better moved, just before it is lit. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/3/) — Loose garden netting tangles birds and hedgehogs, and slug pellets and rat poison can kill pets and wild animals, so children never touch them. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/4/) — Animals feel safe with calm people: a boy in Auckland who moves slowly and speaks softly gets to watch a blackbird pull up a worm only a few steps away. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/5/) — Small animals can fall into a bucket of water and drown because they cannot climb the smooth sides. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/6/) — A cover on a bucket or a stick leaning inside it lets small animals stay out or climb out. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/7/) — Hedgehogs like to hide and sleep in piles of sticks and leaves. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/8/) — A bonfire pile should be checked for hedgehogs just before it is lit, or moved to a new spot. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/9/) — Loose garden netting can trap birds and hedgehogs, so it is kept tight or taken away. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/10/) — Slug pellets and rat poison can kill pets and wildlife, not only slugs and rats. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/11/) — Children never touch poisons, and pets are kept away from them. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/12/) — Animals feel safe with calm people who move slowly and speak softly. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/13/) — Sudden movements and loud voices make small animals run or hide. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/14/) — A hedgehog in a garden in Kent was tangled in a loose football net overnight; it was found weak and cut in the morning and needed weeks at a rescue to recover. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/72-keeping-garden-wildlife-safe/17/) — Slug pellets and garden poisons can poison pets and wild animals that eat them or eat the slugs. - ← previous: [Wild animals, zoos and kindness to animals](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/71-wild-animals-zoos-and-kindness/) - next →: [Brushing your teeth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/73-brushing-your-teeth/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)