--- title: Teamwork, strategy and Minecraft building — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Teamwork, strategy and Minecraft building», a lesson of the everyday course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: Kai, Priya and Leo decided to build a whole city in Minecraft. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/) [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/) / [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/) / Teamwork, strategy and Minecraft build… # Teamwork, strategy and Minecraft building Lesson 424 of the everyday course of Mova's primary school: 30 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/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/0/) — Kai, Priya and Leo decided to build a whole city in Minecraft. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/1/) — On day one all three built a castle, in the same spot, on top of each other, and it looked like a sandwich made by a tornado. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/2/) — On day two they stopped and made a plan: Priya does the roads, Leo the houses, Kai the giant lighthouse nobody asked for. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/3/) — They argued about the lighthouse for twenty minutes. - [4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/4/) — In the end it stayed, and on the last day the whole street of houses was lit by it at night. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/5/) — «Fine,» said Priya, «the lighthouse was a good idea.» Kai has had it printed on a T-shirt in his head ever since. - [6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/6/) — Theo plans team games with drawings: arrows, circles and a stick figure of himself with a cape. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/7/) — His team laughed at the cape and then won three matches in a row, because everyone knew where to go. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/8/) — Noah's team got a brand-new player who kept walking into walls. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/9/) — Instead of kicking her out, they showed her the controls for ten minutes. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/10/) — Two weeks later she was the one rescuing them. - [11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/11/) — Leo and Kai spent a whole weekend stuck on one puzzle game level; Kai saw the pattern, Leo saw the trick, and neither could have done it alone. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/12/) — Games taught some unexpected things. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/14/) — Zara built her school project, a Roman villa, in Minecraft and showed it on the class screen. - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/15/) — Priya built a model of her own house for her mum's birthday, including the cat's bed, the leaky tap and her brother's messy room, done with brown blocks. - [16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/16/) — Ruby teaches her grandma Minecraft over a video call every Thursday. - [17](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/17/) — Grandma dug straight down on day one and fell into lava, then shouted «I'm melting!» for the whole street to hear. - [18](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/18/) — Now she has a little cottage with sheep and has named every sheep after a relative. - [19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/19/) — Ollie joined an online games club run by his school, where a teacher keeps watch, and made a new friend from another class who also loves building trains. - [20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/20/) — Mia organised a building competition with three themes and a fair rule: nobody judges their own build. - [21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/21/) — Team games and shared builds go better when the team makes a plan and shares out the jobs. - [22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/22/) — In a good team, people's different strengths fit together, so the team can do what nobody could do alone. - [23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/23/) — Explaining a plan with a drawing helps everyone see where to go and what to do. - [24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/24/) — Helping a new player learn makes the whole team stronger in the end. - [25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/25/) — Games can teach new words, planning, problem solving and patience. - [26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/26/) — Building games like Minecraft can be used for school projects and models of real places. - [27](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/27/) — Playing with family over a video call is a way to stay close to people who live far away. - [28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/28/) — Online clubs run by a school, with a teacher watching, are a safe way to meet new friends who like the same games. - [29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/29/) — A fair competition has clear rules, and nobody judges their own work. - [30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/30/) — Agreeing on a plan often takes some arguing, and that is normal if everyone listens. - ← previous: [Older siblings and YouTube gameplay](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/423-older-siblings-and-youtube-gameplay/) - next →: [Family game night](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/425-family-game-night/) - ↑ back to [Everyday](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/)