--- title: Farm animals, forest animals and pets — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Farm animals, forest animals and pets», a lesson of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: In summer Sashko visits his granny's village, where there's a korOva (cow), a svynya (pig), a kurka (hen) and a pIven (roos --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets/) [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/) / [Ukrainian street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/) / Farm animals, forest animals and pets # Farm animals, forest animals and pets Lesson 22 of the ukrainian street course of Mova's primary school: 17 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/ukrainian-street/22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets/0/) — In summer Sashko visits his granny's village, where there's a korOva (cow), a svynya (pig), a kurka (hen) and a pIven (rooster) shouting at dawn, and a leleka, a stork, nesting on a tall pole or roof. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets/1/) — The forest animals come from fairy tales: vovk the wolf, vedmId the bear, zayets the hare and lysYtsya the fox, like the sly "Lys Mykyta". - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets/2/) — Careful: animal names can be insults. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets/3/) — Calling a person "korOva", "svynya" or "zhAba" is rude — but "zaichyk", little hare, and "rybka", little fish, are loving names for small children. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets/4/) — To ask about a friend's pet: "u tebe ye kit?" — literally "at you is a cat?", do you have a cat? — and then "yak yoho zvut?", what's his name? - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets/5/) — "korOva" means cow; calling a person "korOva" is an insult. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets/6/) — "svynya" means pig; calling someone "svynya" is an insult meaning a pig or slob. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets/7/) — "kurka" means hen, and "pIven" means rooster. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets/8/) — "zayets" means hare or bunny, and "zaichyk", little hare, is a loving name for a small child. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets/9/) — "vedmId" means bear, and "vovk" means wolf; both appear in many fairy tales. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets/10/) — "lysYtsya" means fox; the sly fox "Lys Mykyta" is a famous Ukrainian tale character. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets/11/) — "ryba" means fish, and "rybka", little fish, is a loving name too. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets/12/) — "zhAba" means frog or toad; as an insult it means an ugly or greedy person, and "zhAba davyt", "the toad squeezes", means someone is greedy or envious. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets/13/) — "leleka" means stork; storks nest on village roofs and poles in Ukraine and are a symbol of home. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets/14/) — In old stories storks bring luck and babies. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets/15/) — "u tebe ye kit?" means "do you have a cat?", literally "at you is a cat?", and the answer is "tak" or "ni". - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/22-farm-forest-animals-and-pets/16/) — "yak yoho zvut?" means "what's his name?", used when meeting a pet. - ← previous: [Bruises and hand-washing; cats, dogs and ponies](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/21-bruises-hand-washing-cats-dogs-ponies/) - next →: [Animal sounds, rain, snow, sun and rainbows](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/23-animal-sounds-rain-snow-sun-rainbows/) - ↑ back to [Ukrainian street](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ukrainian-street/)