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title: When one team starts alone and the other joins later, first take awa… — Working alone first, then together · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: one team, other, you. A sentence of the lesson «Working alone first, then together» of the lessons course of Mova's primary school with its dependency 
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# Working alone first, then together, sentence 0

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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.

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**Who acts:** one team, other, you · **What happens:** start, join, take away, do, share · **To what, where:** work, rest, speed

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Working alone first, then together» of the lessons 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 team, other, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:lessons:169-a-team-joins-later.lesson:0
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = lessons
# lesson = 169-a-team-joins-later.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): R6-punct-agree ×1
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	4	mark	_	_
2	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	team	team	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	starts	start	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nsubj	_	_
9	joins	join	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	later	late	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	9	advmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	13	advmod	_	_
13	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	away	away	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	done	do	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
18	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	21	advmod	_	_
21	share	share	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	teams	team	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=4:punct
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: kept the draft

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **start** | present | one team |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 2 | **join** | present | the other |  |  |  |  | late *property* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **take away** | imperative | you *not said here* | the work |  |  |  | first *property* | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Theme |
| 4 | **do** | participle | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | alone *property* | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **share** | infinitive | you *not said here* | the rest |  | the speed of both teams | then |  | tree rules |

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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:lessons:169-a-team-joins-later.lesson:0`.

**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): R6-punct-agree ×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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