--- title: Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Fungi are not plants: they have no green chlorophyll and cannot make their own food, so they feed on dead or living things around the --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things/) [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/) / Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things # Fungi, bacteria and tiny living things Lesson 77 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 18 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/77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things/0/) — Fungi are not plants: they have no green chlorophyll and cannot make their own food, so they feed on dead or living things around them; mushrooms, moulds and yeast are all fungi. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things/1/) — The mushroom we see is only the fruit of a fungus; most of it is a web of fine threads hidden in the soil or wood, and the mushroom spreads tiny spores instead of seeds. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things/2/) — Bacteria are living things made of just one tiny cell, far too small to see without a microscope; they live everywhere — in soil, water, air and inside our bodies. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things/3/) — Most bacteria are harmless or helpful: they rot dead things, help us digest food and turn milk into yogurt; only a few cause illness, and yeast makes bread rise by giving off bubbles of gas. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things/4/) — Leave a slice of bread in a warm, damp place and in a few days fuzzy spots of mould appear — spores from the air landed on it and the fungus grew by feeding on the bread. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things/5/) — Fungi cannot make their own food because they have no chlorophyll. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things/6/) — Mushrooms, moulds and yeast are all fungi. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things/7/) — A mushroom is the part of a fungus that makes spores. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things/8/) — Most of a fungus is a web of thin threads hidden in soil or wood. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things/9/) — Fungi spread by spores, not by seeds. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things/10/) — Bacteria are living things made of only one cell. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things/11/) — Bacteria are too small to see without a microscope. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things/12/) — Bacteria in our gut help us to digest food. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things/13/) — Bacteria turn milk into yogurt and cheese. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things/15/) — Fungi and bacteria grow best where it is warm and damp; the cold of a fridge or freezer slows them almost to a stop. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things/16/) — Yeast makes bread rise by giving off bubbles of carbon dioxide. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things/17/) — Fungi and bacteria break down dead plants and animals and return their goodness to the soil. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/77-fungi-bacteria-tiny-living-things/18/) — Some wild mushrooms are deadly poisonous, so we must never eat ones we pick ourselves. - ← previous: [Trees and forests through the year](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/76-trees-and-forests-through-the-year/) - next →: [Dinosaurs and life long ago](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/78-dinosaurs-and-life-long-ago/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)