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Is this "would" being used as subjunctive mood because she's not her real mom?

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Rebecca

Yes, "would" is used here to express a hypothetical situation or subjunctive mood because she is not the cow's real mother and the cow's real mother is not around. So "would" indicates something that her real mom would have done in a hypothetical situation if she were around.

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