--- title: A good way to do a jigsaw is to find the edges and corners first, be… — Safe toys and fair board games · tree and pragmatics description: A good way to do a jigsaw is to find the edges and corners first, because edge pieces have a straight side and make a frame, then group pieces by colour. Who acts: good way, edge pieces. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (good way, edge pieces), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:everyday:302-toys-and-board-games.lesson:18 # text = A good way to do a jigsaw is to find the edges and corners first, because edge pieces have a straight side and make a frame, then group pieces by colour. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = everyday # lesson = 302-toys-and-board-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 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 2 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl _ _ 6 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 jigsaw jigsaw NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 obj _ _ 8 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 cop _ _ 9 to to PART TO _ 10 mark _ _ 10 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 edges edge NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 and and CCONJ CC _ 14 cc _ _ 14 corners corner NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 conj _ _ 15 first first ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 10 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=12:advmod 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 because because SCONJ IN _ 20 mark _ _ 18 edge edge NOUN NN Number=Sing 19 compound _ _ 19 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 20 have have VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 advcl _ _ 21 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 22 straight straight ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 amod _ _ 23 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ _ 25 make make VERB VB Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 conj _ _ 26 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 frame frame NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obj _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 30 advmod _ _ 30 group group VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 25 conj _ _ 31 pieces piece NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 obj _ _ 32 by by ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 colour colour NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 34 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | to-infinitive | a good way *not said here* | a jigsaw | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jigsaw=Eventuality | | 2 | **is** | present | a good way | | | | | find, first *property* | tree rules | | 3 | **have** | present | edge pieces | a straight side | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent side=Patient | | 4 | **make** | infinitive | edge pieces *not said here* | a frame | | | | | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset frame=Product | | 5 | **group** | infinitive | edge pieces *not said here* | pieces | | | then | by colour | vn classify-29.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | 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. **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:302-toys-and-board-games.lesson:18`. **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/). - ← previous: [Safe toys and fair board games, 17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/302-toys-and-board-games/17/) - next →: [Safe toys and fair board games, 19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/302-toys-and-board-games/19/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/302-toys-and-board-games/)