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title: Start a jigsaw with the edges and corners, then group the colours; a… — Puzzles, money and video games · tree and pragmatics
description: Start a jigsaw with the edges and corners, then group the colours; a method makes a hard puzzle easier. Who acts: you, method. A sentence of the lesson «Puzzles, money and video games» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Puzzles, money and video games, sentence 11

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Start a jigsaw with the edges and corners, then group the colours; a method makes a hard puzzle easier.

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**Who acts:** you, method · **What happens:** start, group, make · **To what, where:** jigsaw, colours, hard puzzle

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Puzzles, money and video games» of the everyday 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 (you, method), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:243-puzzles-and-video-games.lesson:11
# text = Start a jigsaw with the edges and corners, then group the colours; a method makes a hard puzzle easier.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 243-puzzles-and-video-games.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): R5-strong ×1
1	Start	start	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	jigsaw	jigsaw	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	edges	edge	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:nmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	corners	corner	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	conj	_	_
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	11	advmod	_	_
11	group	group	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	colours	colour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	method	method	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	makes	make	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	puzzle	puzzle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	easier	easy	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	xcomp	_	_
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	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 | **start** | imperative | you *not said here* | a jigsaw |  |  |  | with the edges and corners | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.subeventuality»: agent=Agent jigsaw=Eventuality with edge=Subeventuality |
| 2 | **group** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the colours |  |  | then |  | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colour=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | present | a method | a hard puzzle |  |  |  | easy *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset puzzle=Product |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:243-puzzles-and-video-games.lesson:11`.

**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): R5-strong ×1. **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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