--- title: Dimetrodon, with its sail, lived about 280 million years ago, before… — Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, m… · tree and pragmatics description: Dimetrodon, with its sail, lived about 280 million years ago, before any dinosaurs, and is closer to mammals, and so to us, than to dinosaurs. Who acts: Dimetrodon. A sentence of the lesson «Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning» of the biology course of Mova's pri --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning/13/) [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/) / [Biology](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/) / [Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, ples…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning/) / 13 # Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning, sentence 13 Dimetrodon, with its sail, lived about 280 million years ago, before any dinosaurs, and is closer to mammals, and so to us, than to dinosaurs. **Who acts:** Dimetrodon · **What happens:** live, be · **To what, where:** us This is a sentence of the lesson «Not dinosaurs at all: pterosaurs, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs and Mary Anning» of the biology 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 (Dimetrodon), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning.lesson:13 # text = Dimetrodon, with its sail, lived about 280 million years ago, before any dinosaurs, and is closer to mammals, and so to us, than to dinosaurs. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning.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 ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Dimetrodon dimetrodon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=7:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 2 , , PUNCT , _ 5 punct _ _ 3 with with ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 sail sail NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 nmod _ _ 6 , , PUNCT , _ 1 punct _ _ 7 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 8 about about ADV RB _ 10 advmod _ _ 9 280 280 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 10 compound _ _ 10 million million NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 11 nummod _ _ 11 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 12 obl:unmarked _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=7:obl:unmarked 12 ago ago ADV RB _ 7 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=11:advmod 13 , , PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 14 before before ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 any any DET DT PronType=Ind 16 det _ _ 16 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 cop _ _ 20 closer close ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 7 conj _ _ 21 to to ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 mammals mammal NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 23 , , PUNCT , _ 27 punct _ _ 24 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 25 so so ADV RB _ 27 advmod _ _ 26 to to ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 than than ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 30 to to ADP IN _ 31 case _ _ 31 dinosaurs dinosaur NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obl _ _ 32 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | past | Dimetrodon with university's sail | | | | before any dinosaurs | ago *property* | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before dinosaur=Location | | 2 | **is** | present | Dimetrodon with university's sail *not said here* | | us | | | to mammals; than dinosaurs; close *property* | tree rules | 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:biology:270-not-dinosaurs-pterosaurs-plesiosaurs-mosasaurs-mary-anning.lesson:13`. **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 ×2, R8-pos-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. 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