--- title: Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon» — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon»», a lesson of the religion ethics course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A little burial in the garden is a way for people to say goodbye and thank you; the animal does not need it, --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/) [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/) / [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/) / Garden burials, wild animals and a new… # Garden burials, wild animals and a new pet «too soon» Lesson 57 of the religion ethics 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/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/0/) — A little burial in the garden is a way for people to say goodbye and thank you; the animal does not need it, but people often feel better afterwards, and it can have a prayer, a poem, a song or just a quiet moment. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/2/) — Wild animals act by instinct, not by right and wrong: the cat that leaves a mouse on the doormat and the fox that gets into the chicken coop are not wicked, they are being a cat and a fox, so we fix the fence rather than punish the fox. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/3/) — People grieve at different speeds: Tyler wants a new dog the next day, Chloe is furious when a new hamster arrives after nine days, and Ruby keeps her empty tank for months; a new pet never replaces the old one, and there is no timetable. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/4/) — Some things are better left alone: a dead animal on the road can carry germs, so we do not touch it, and a small grave is a place of rest, not something to dig up to look. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/5/) — A pet burial can have words, a song or silence; Christians might say a short prayer of thanks, and others a poem or a few words. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/6/) — A new pet does not replace the one that died; each is different and loved in its own way. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/7/) — Some people want a new pet soon and others need a long time; both are normal ways of grieving, and there is no religious rule about it. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/8/) — Hedgehogs often cross roads at night, and many are hit by cars; people make holes in garden fences to give them safer paths. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/9/) — Do not touch dead wild animals: they can carry germs; tell an adult if one is in a dangerous place. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/10/) — Baby birds are very hard to keep alive, even for experts; a fledgling on the ground is often still fed by its parents nearby. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/11/) — Cats are hunters by instinct; bringing prey home may be sharing or showing off, and a bell on the collar can warn birds and mice. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/12/) — After death a body slowly breaks down into the soil; digging up even a small grave is not a good idea and can spread germs. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/13/) — Ghost stories are made up; a dead pet does not come back to scratch or haunt anyone. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/14/) — Foxes hunt chickens because they are hungry; a stronger coop protects the hens better than anger. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/15/) — Christians and many other faiths treat graves as places of rest that should be left in peace. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/57-garden-burials-wild-animals-and-a-new-pet-too-soon/16/) — Jesus said God sees every sparrow that falls. - ← previous: [The old dog, the vet and the hardest goodbye](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/56-the-old-dog-the-vet-and-the-hardest-goodbye/) - next →: [When a grandparent dies](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/58-when-a-grandparent-dies/) - ↑ back to [Religion ethics](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/)