--- title: Classifying unusual animals — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Classifying unusual animals», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Some animals look as if they belong to one group but really belong to another, because we sort animals by their bodies, not by where they live o --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-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/) / [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/) / Classifying unusual animals # Classifying unusual animals Lesson 29 of the world 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/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/0/) — Some animals look as if they belong to one group but really belong to another, because we sort animals by their bodies, not by where they live or whether they fly or swim. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/1/) — A bat flies, but it has fur and feeds its babies milk, so it is a mammal; a whale lives in the sea, but it breathes air with lungs and feeds its calf milk, so it is a mammal too. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/2/) — A penguin cannot fly and swims like a fish, but it has feathers and lays eggs with hard shells, so it is a bird. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/3/) — A spider is not an insect: it has eight legs, two body parts and no antennae or wings; a woodlouse with fourteen legs is not an insect either, it is a relative of crabs. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/4/) — The platypus is a mammal with fur that feeds its young milk, yet it lays eggs, and a starfish and a jellyfish are not fish at all, because they have no backbone and no gills. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/5/) — Bats are the only mammals that can truly fly. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/6/) — Whales and dolphins are mammals: they breathe air with lungs and feed their young milk. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/7/) — A whale must come to the surface to breathe through its blowhole. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/8/) — Penguins are birds: they have feathers and lay hard-shelled eggs, but use their wings as flippers. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/9/) — Ostriches and emus are birds that cannot fly. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/10/) — Spiders are not insects: they have eight legs and two body parts; a ladybird, a small spotted beetle, is an insect with six legs. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/11/) — Woodlice are not insects; they are crustaceans, relatives of crabs, with fourteen legs. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/13/) — Starfish and jellyfish are not fish, because they have no backbone. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/14/) — A seahorse is a fish: it has gills and fins and lives in water all its life. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/15/) — Snakes are reptiles, and some lizards, like the slow worm, have no legs. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/29-classifying-unusual-animals/16/) — Turtles are reptiles that lay their eggs on land, even if they live in the sea. - ← previous: [Migration and hibernation](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/28-migration-and-hibernation/) - next →: [Balance in a food web](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/30-balance-in-food-webs/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)