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title: Films are shot like a jigsaw, not like a story: all the scenes in on… — How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing · tree and pragmatics
description: Films are shot like a jigsaw, not like a story: all the scenes in one place are filmed together, even if one is at the start and one at the end, and the editor puts the pieces in order later. Who acts: one, editor. A sentence of the lesson «How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing» of the art
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# How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing, sentence 2

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Films are shot like a jigsaw, not like a story: all the scenes in one place are filmed together, even if one is at the start and one at the end, and the editor puts the pieces in order later.

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**Who acts:** one, editor · **What happens:** shoot, film, be, put · **To what, where:** Films, scenes, start, pieces

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This is a sentence of the lesson «How films are made: script, crew, sets, editing» of the arts course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one, editor), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:arts:022-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing.lesson:2
# text = Films are shot like a jigsaw, not like a story: all the scenes in one place are filmed together, even if one is at the start and one at the end, and the editor puts the pieces in order later.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = arts
# lesson = 022-how-films-are-made-script-crew-sets-editing.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Films	film	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	shot	shoot	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	jigsaw	jigsaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
13	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	15	det:predet	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	scenes	scene	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	nummod	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	filmed	film	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
21	together	together	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
23	even	even	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
24	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nsubj	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
27	at	at	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	start	start	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	advcl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	conj	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	editor	editor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj	_	_
39	puts	put	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obj	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	44	case	_	_
43	order	order	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	fixed	_	_
44	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	39	advmod	_	_
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shoot** | present · passive |  | Films |  |  |  | like a jigsaw and a story | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **film** | present · passive |  | all scenes in one place |  |  |  | together *property* | vn transcribe-25.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | one |  |  | the start |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **put** | present | the editor | the pieces |  |  |  | late *property* | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent piece=Goal |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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