--- title: The Sun as a star and the stars — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «The Sun as a star and the stars», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: The Sun is a star: a gigantic ball of very hot gas that makes its own light and heat. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/5-the-sun-and-the-stars/) [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/) / The Sun as a star and the stars # The Sun as a star and the stars Lesson 5 of the world course of Mova's primary school: 19 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/5-the-sun-and-the-stars/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/5-the-sun-and-the-stars/0/) — The Sun is a star: a gigantic ball of very hot gas that makes its own light and heat. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/5-the-sun-and-the-stars/1/) — The other stars are suns too, many bigger and brighter than ours, but they are so far away that they look like tiny points of light. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/5-the-sun-and-the-stars/2/) — Light from the Sun takes about eight minutes to reach us, while light from the next nearest star takes more than four years. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/5-the-sun-and-the-stars/3/) — The Sun looks bigger and brighter than other stars only because it is much closer, just as a car's headlights look huge near you and like small dots far down the road. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/5-the-sun-and-the-stars/4/) — Stars have different colours: the hottest are blue-white, our Sun is yellow-white, and cooler stars are orange or red. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/5-the-sun-and-the-stars/5/) — The Sun is a star. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/5-the-sun-and-the-stars/6/) — A star is a huge ball of hot gas that gives out its own light. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/5-the-sun-and-the-stars/7/) — The Sun is the star closest to the Earth. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/5-the-sun-and-the-stars/8/) — Light from the Sun reaches the Earth in about eight minutes. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/5-the-sun-and-the-stars/9/) — The nearest star after the Sun is more than four light-years away; a light-year is how far light travels in one year. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/5-the-sun-and-the-stars/10/) — When you look at a far star, you see light that left it long ago, so you see the star as it was when that light set off. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/5-the-sun-and-the-stars/11/) — The Sun is so big that about a million Earths could fit inside it. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/5-the-sun-and-the-stars/12/) — Many stars are bigger and brighter than the Sun. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/5-the-sun-and-the-stars/13/) — Stars look small because they are very far away. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/5-the-sun-and-the-stars/14/) — The colour of a star shows how hot it is: blue stars are hotter than red stars. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/5-the-sun-and-the-stars/15/) — Planets and the Moon do not make their own light; they reflect sunlight. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/5-the-sun-and-the-stars/16/) — Groups of stars that make pictures in the sky are called constellations. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/5-the-sun-and-the-stars/17/) — The Sun is one of billions of stars in our galaxy, the Milky Way. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/5-the-sun-and-the-stars/18/) — You must never look straight at the Sun, because it can damage your eyes. - ← previous: [The solar system and the planets](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/4-the-solar-system/) - next →: [Gravity](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/6-gravity/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)