--- title: Millions of years ago, when the air held more oxygen, some dragonfly… — The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantula… · tree and pragmatics description: Millions of years ago, when the air held more oxygen, some dragonfly relatives had wings about 70 centimetres across. Who acts: air, dragonfly relatives. A sentence of the lesson «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» of the biology course of Mova's primary school with its --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions/15/) [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/) / [The insect house: ants, stick insects,…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/97-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions/) / 15 # The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions, sentence 15 Millions of years ago, when the air held more oxygen, some dragonfly relatives had wings about 70 centimetres across. **Who acts:** air, dragonfly relatives · **What happens:** hold, have · **To what, where:** more oxygen, Millions This is a sentence of the lesson «The insect house: ants, stick insects, tarantulas and scorpions» 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 (air, dragonfly relatives), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:biology:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:15 # text = Millions of years ago, when the air held more oxygen, some dragonfly relatives had wings about 70 centimetres across. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = biology # lesson = 097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.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 1 Millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obl:unmarked _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 3 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 nmod _ _ 4 ago ago ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=1:advmod 5 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 6 when when ADV WRB PronType=Int 9 advmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 held hold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 advcl _ _ 10 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 11 amod _ _ 11 oxygen oxygen NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 4 punct _ _ 13 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 15 det _ _ 14 dragonfly dragonfly NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 compound _ _ 15 relatives relative NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 nsubj _ _ 16 had have VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 17 wings wing NOUN NNS Number=Plur 16 obj _ _ 18 about about ADV RB _ 19 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=20:advmod 19 70 70 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 20 nummod _ _ 20 centimetres centimetre NOUN NNS Number=Plur 17 nmod:unmarked _ _ 21 across across ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 22 . . PUNCT . _ 16 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hold** | past | the air | more oxygen | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent oxygen=Theme | | 2 | **have** | past | some dragonfly relatives | Millions of years | | | | ago *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wing=Patient | 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:097-the-insect-house-ants-stick-insects-tarantulas-and-scorpions.lesson:15`. **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. **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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