--- title: Farms and where our food comes from — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Farms and where our food comes from», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Almost all our food comes from farms: crops grown in fields and greenhouses, and animals kept for milk, eggs, meat and wool; fish come f --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/) [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/) / Farms and where our food comes from # Farms and where our food comes from Lesson 80 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/80-farms-and-our-food/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/0/) — Almost all our food comes from farms: crops grown in fields and greenhouses, and animals kept for milk, eggs, meat and wool; fish come from the sea or from fish farms. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/2/) — Farmers plough the soil, sow seeds, water and feed the crops, protect them from pests and harvest them when they are ripe; changing the crop in a field each year keeps the soil healthy. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/3/) — Bees and other insects pollinate many crops, such as apples, strawberries and almonds, so without them we would have much less fruit. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/4/) — A bowl of breakfast can come from all over the world: oats from a cold, wet field, bananas from a warm tropical farm, and milk from a cow on a farm close by. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/5/) — Bread is made from flour, and flour is ground from wheat grains. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/6/) — Butter and cheese are made from milk; a farm that keeps cows for their milk is called a dairy farm. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/7/) — Sugar comes from sugar cane or sugar beet. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/8/) — Rice, wheat and maize are the most important crops in the world. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/9/) — Rice grows best in warm, wet fields that are often flooded. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/10/) — Bananas, cocoa and coffee grow only in warm tropical places. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/11/) — Cows, goats and sheep give milk. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/12/) — Wool comes from sheep. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/13/) — Chocolate is made from the seeds of the cocoa tree. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/14/) — Bees pollinate many fruit crops, such as apples and strawberries. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/15/) — Growing a different crop in a field each year keeps the soil healthy. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/80-farms-and-our-food/16/) — A greenhouse keeps plants warm so crops can grow in cold seasons. - ← previous: [Senses of animals: how they see, hear and smell](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/79-senses-of-animals/) - next →: [Magnets](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/81-magnets/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)