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title: Working alone first, then together — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics
description: «Working alone first, then together», a lesson of the lessons course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: When one team starts alone and the other joins later, first take away the work done alone, then share the rest at the speed of both tea
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# Working alone first, then together

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Lesson 169 of the lessons course of Mova's primary school: 3 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).

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- [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/169-a-team-joins-later/0/) — When one team starts alone and the other joins later, first take away the work done alone, then share the rest at the speed of both teams.
- [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/169-a-team-joins-later/1/) — A job of 300 m: team A lays 40 m a day and works alone for 2 days, laying 80 m; 220 m are left.
- [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/lessons/169-a-team-joins-later/2/) — Then B joins with 15 m a day: together 55 m a day, so 220 / 55 = 4 more days, and the whole job takes 2 + 4 = 6 days.

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