--- title: Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky», a lesson of the world course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: On a dark, clear night far from city lights you can see a few thousand stars with your eyes alone; in a city, the glow of --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/) [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/) / Stars, planets and constellations in t… # Stars, planets and constellations in the night sky Lesson 70 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/70-the-night-sky/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/0/) — On a dark, clear night far from city lights you can see a few thousand stars with your eyes alone; in a city, the glow of the lights hides most of them. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/1/) — The stars seem to move slowly across the sky during the night, rising in the east and setting in the west, but it is really the Earth turning, just as it makes the Sun rise and set. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/2/) — In the Northern Hemisphere one star, Polaris, the North Star, hardly moves at all, because it sits almost straight above the Earth's North Pole, and all the other stars seem to circle around it. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/3/) — The stars in a constellation only look close together: they lie in about the same direction from us, but some are many times farther away than others. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/4/) — A planet looks like a bright star, but over weeks it slowly wanders among the constellations, because it is much nearer and goes around the Sun; the word planet comes from the Greek for wanderer. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/5/) — For example, the brightest point in the evening sky after the Moon is often Venus, called the evening star, though it is a planet that shines by reflecting sunlight. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/7/) — The stars seem to move across the sky at night because the Earth turns. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/8/) — Polaris, the North Star, stays almost still in the sky, and the other stars seem to circle around it. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/9/) — The stars of a constellation are usually at very different distances from us. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/10/) — Astronomers divide the whole sky into 88 constellations. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/11/) — Planets slowly change their place among the stars from week to week. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/12/) — Stars twinkle because moving air bends their light this way and that; planets usually shine more steadily. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/13/) — We see different constellations in winter and in summer because the Earth travels around the Sun. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/15/) — The Milky Way, the pale band across a dark sky, is the light of countless far-away stars of our own galaxy. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/16/) — A shooting star is not a star but a meteor: a speck of space rock burning up in the air. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/70-the-night-sky/17/) — The stars are still in the sky during the day, but the bright sunlit sky hides them. - ← previous: [Wind and the air around the Earth](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/69-wind-and-the-atmosphere/) - next →: [Rockets, satellites and astronauts](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/71-rockets-satellites-astronauts/) - ↑ back to [World](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/)