--- title: Pets and farm animals — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Pets and farm animals», a lesson of the myths course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Poppy hugs her new bunny and announces: "Snowy's getting a carrot every single day, because rabbits LOVE carrots!" She has watched Bugs Bunny crunchin --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-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/) / [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/) / Pets and farm animals # Pets and farm animals Lesson 7 of the myths course of Mova's primary school: 15 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/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/0/) — Poppy hugs her new bunny and announces: "Snowy's getting a carrot every single day, because rabbits LOVE carrots!" She has watched Bugs Bunny crunching them for years, so she is sure. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/1/) — Pet myths come from cartoons, old farm pictures and kind people doing what their grandparents did: a saucer of milk for the cat, a saucer of milk for the hedgehog, a goldfish in a tiny round bowl. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/2/) — The trouble is that a kind idea with a wrong fact can make an animal ill: milk upsets most grown-up cats and makes hedgehogs sick, and too many carrots are like sweets for rabbits. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/3/) — Other myths are just funny, like the cow that lies down because rain is coming, or the bull that "hates red", when really bulls hardly tell red from green and charge at the cape because it moves. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/5/) — Rabbits should eat mostly hay and grass with some leafy greens; carrots are sugary treats for now and then. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/6/) — Bulls are red-green colour-blind; it is the movement of a matador's cape, not its colour, that makes a bull charge. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/7/) — Dogs see colours, but fewer than we do, mostly blues and yellows; red and green look alike to them. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/8/) — Dogs age fast in their first year or two and slower after that, and big dogs age faster than small ones, so "seven dog years to one" is too simple. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/9/) — Cow's milk makes hedgehogs ill; give them water and meaty cat or dog food instead. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/10/) — Most grown-up cats cannot digest the sugar in milk well and get tummy upsets; water is the best drink for cats. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/11/) — Goldfish kept in small bowls stay stunted (small and badly grown) and stressed; in a big pond they can grow longer than 30 centimetres. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/12/) — Cows lie down for many reasons, such as resting and chewing their cud (bringing swallowed grass back up to chew again); lying down does not predict rain. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/13/) — Pigs can't sweat much, so they roll in mud to cool off and protect their skin from the sun; given space, they keep their toilet area away from where they sleep. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/14/) — A mother hamster may eat her babies when she is stressed, disturbed or short of food; it is instinct, not evil, so a new litter should be left in peace. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/7-pets-and-farm-animals/15/) — Animals don't choose good or evil the way people do; their behaviour has reasons like food, safety and temperature. - ← previous: [Growing, skin, hair and food](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/6-growing-skin-hair-and-food/) - next →: [Wild animals and tall tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/8-wild-animals-and-tall-tales/) - ↑ back to [Myths](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/myths/)