--- title: Sun safety — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Sun safety», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Sunlight carries invisible ultraviolet rays, or UV; they cannot be felt as heat, but they burn the skin and over many years can cause skin cancer. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/46-sun-safety/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Sun safety # Sun safety Lesson 46 of the everyday 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/everyday/46-sun-safety/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/46-sun-safety/0/) — Sunlight carries invisible ultraviolet rays, or UV; they cannot be felt as heat, but they burn the skin and over many years can cause skin cancer. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/46-sun-safety/1/) — UV is strongest in the middle of the day, in summer and in sunny places such as Australia and New Zealand, and it gets through thin clouds, so you can burn on a cool, cloudy day. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/46-sun-safety/2/) — In Australia children learn to slip on a shirt, slop on sunscreen, slap on a hat, seek shade and slide on sunglasses. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/46-sun-safety/3/) — Sunscreen goes on before you go out and is put on again every two hours and after swimming, because it rubs and washes off. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/46-sun-safety/4/) — In hot weather you also drink water often; a girl in Arizona who plays all afternoon in the heat without drinking may get a headache and feel dizzy and sick, which is a sign to go to the shade, cool down, drink and tell an adult. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/46-sun-safety/5/) — A girl in Queensland spent a whole day at the beach without sun cream; she got burnt so badly she had blisters and a fever and could not sleep. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/46-sun-safety/6/) — A toddler in Arizona was left asleep in a parked car for a short time; the car heated up fast and he had to be rushed to hospital with heatstroke. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/46-sun-safety/7/) — The Sun gives out invisible ultraviolet, or UV, rays that burn the skin. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/46-sun-safety/8/) — You cannot feel UV rays, so you can burn even when it does not feel hot. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/46-sun-safety/9/) — Much of the UV gets through clouds, so you can burn on a cloudy day. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/46-sun-safety/10/) — UV is strongest around the middle of the day. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/46-sun-safety/11/) — Australia and New Zealand have some of the highest rates of skin cancer in the world. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/46-sun-safety/12/) — Sunscreen should be at least SPF 30 (SPF is the number that shows how strongly it protects) and be put on again every two hours and after swimming. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/46-sun-safety/13/) — A hat with a wide brim shades your face, ears and neck. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/46-sun-safety/14/) — Water, sand and snow reflect UV, so you can burn even under an umbrella or on a ski slope. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/46-sun-safety/15/) — Sunburn on a child's skin raises the chance of skin cancer later in life. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/46-sun-safety/16/) — People with darker skin can still get sunburnt and still need sun protection. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/46-sun-safety/17/) — In hot weather you need to drink water often, before you feel very thirsty. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/46-sun-safety/18/) — A parked car can become dangerously hot in minutes, so children and pets must never be left inside one. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/46-sun-safety/19/) — A tan is not a sign of healthy skin; it is a sign that UV has damaged the skin. - ← previous: [Pools, lakes and ice](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/45-pools-lakes-and-ice/) - next →: [Hiking and the outdoors](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/47-hiking-and-the-outdoors/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)