--- title: Food chains and food webs — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Food chains and food webs», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Every food chain starts with a producer, a plant or alga that makes its own food from sunlight; the animals that eat are consumers. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/) [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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / Food chains and food webs # Food chains and food webs Lesson 26 of the world 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/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/). - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/1/) — Every food chain starts with a producer, a plant or alga that makes its own food from sunlight; the animals that eat are consumers. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/2/) — An animal that hunts other animals is a predator and the animal it hunts is its prey; herbivores eat plants, carnivores eat animals, omnivores eat both. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/3/) — Decomposers, such as fungi, bacteria and worms, break down dead plants and animals and return their minerals to the soil for new plants. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/4/) — In nature most animals eat more than one thing and are eaten by more than one thing, so the chains join into a food web, like a net. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/5/) — A food chain shows how food and energy pass from one living thing to another. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/6/) — Every food chain begins with a producer, such as a green plant or an alga. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/7/) — Producers make their own food using the energy of sunlight. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/8/) — Consumers are living things that get their food by eating other living things. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/9/) — Herbivores eat plants, carnivores eat animals, and omnivores eat both. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/10/) — A predator hunts and eats other animals, called its prey. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/11/) — Decomposers break down dead plants and animals and return minerals to the soil. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/12/) — Fungi, such as mushrooms and moulds, bacteria, which are living things far too small to see, and earthworms are decomposers. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/13/) — The arrows in a food chain point from the thing eaten to the thing that eats it. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/14/) — A food web is many food chains joined together. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/26-food-chains-and-webs/15/) — The energy in almost every food chain comes first from the Sun. - ← previous: [Life cycles](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/25-life-cycles/) - next →: [Habitats and adaptations](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/27-habitats-and-adaptations/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)