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title: The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky», a lesson of the space course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The sky changes with the seasons, because as Earth goes round the Sun our night side faces a different part of spac
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# The night sky in summer and autumn, and the southern sky

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Lesson 21 of the space course of Mova's primary school: 12 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/space/21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky/).

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- [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky/0/) — The sky changes with the seasons, because as Earth goes round the Sun our night side faces a different part of space.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky/2/) — In autumn the Great Square of Pegasus climbs in the east, and from its corner a line of stars leads to the misty smudge of the Andromeda Galaxy.
- [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky/3/) — Picture a cousin in Sydney and you in Leeds looking up on the same night: you see the Plough, she sees the Southern Cross, because you stand on different sides of the round Earth.
- [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky/4/) — People everywhere have made pictures of the sky: Aboriginal Australians see an Emu in the dark dust clouds of the Milky Way.
- [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky/6/) — Around midsummer the sky over Britain never gets fully dark, and in Scotland it stays light enough to read outside near midnight.
- [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky/8/) — Scorpius, with red Antares, and Sagittarius, shaped like a teapot, lie low in the south in summer from Britain but much higher from the southern US and Australia.
- [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky/10/) — In autumn the Great Square of Pegasus rises in the east, and from its corner a line of stars leads to Andromeda.
- [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky/11/) — The Andromeda Galaxy, about 2.5 million light years away, is the farthest thing most people can see with the naked eye, a faint smudge in autumn skies.
- [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky/13/) — The Southern Cross, Crux, is the smallest of the 88 constellations.
- [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky/15/) — There is no bright south pole star, so southern observers find south using the long arm of the Southern Cross and the two Pointers, Alpha and Beta Centauri.
- [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky/16/) — Aboriginal Australians see the Emu in the Sky in the dark dust clouds of the Milky Way.
- [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/space/21-the-night-sky-in-summer-and-autumn-and-the-southern-sky/17/) — In New Zealand the rise of Matariki, the Pleiades, now marks a Māori New Year public holiday.

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