--- title: Caring for the environment — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Caring for the environment», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The environment is everything around us: air, water, soil, plants and animals. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/) [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/) / Caring for the environment # Caring for the environment Lesson 57 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 20 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/57-environment/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/0/) — The environment is everything around us: air, water, soil, plants and animals. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/1/) — All of it is linked, so harm in one place spreads to others. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/2/) — Pollution is putting harmful things into the environment. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/3/) — Smoke from factories and cars dirties the air, waste and chemicals dirty rivers and seas, and litter harms the land and the animals that live on it. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/4/) — Plastic is a big problem because it takes hundreds of years to break down. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/5/) — A plastic bag in the sea can be mistaken for a jellyfish and swallowed by a turtle. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/6/) — We can help by the three Rs: Reduce (use less), Reuse (use things again) and Recycle (turn old materials into new things). - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/7/) — Recycling an aluminium can saves most of the energy needed to make a new one. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/8/) — Protecting nature means keeping homes for wild animals — forests, wetlands, meadows and seas — because when a habitat is destroyed, the animals living there lose their food and shelter. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/9/) — Pollution is harmful material put into air, water or soil. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/10/) — Smoke from vehicles, factories and burning rubbish pollutes the air. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/11/) — Plastic can take hundreds of years to break down. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/12/) — Sea animals can swallow plastic or get tangled in it. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/13/) — Reduce, Reuse and Recycle are three ways to make less waste. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/14/) — Reducing waste helps most, because the waste is never made. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/15/) — Paper, glass, metal cans and many plastics can be recycled. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/16/) — Food scraps and leaves can be turned into compost that feeds the soil. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/17/) — A habitat is the natural home of a plant or an animal. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/18/) — Cutting down forests destroys habitats and removes trees that clean the air by taking in carbon dioxide. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/57-environment/19/) — Nature reserves and national parks protect wild plants and animals. - ← previous: [Energy — where it comes from and how to save it](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/56-energy/) - next →: [People and society — communities, work, money and rules](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/58-people-and-society/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)