--- title: The Downs, like the ones the Rat looks at, are rounded hills of chal… — The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from… · tree and pragmatics description: The Downs, like the ones the Rat looks at, are rounded hills of chalk in southern England, covered in short grass. Who acts: Rat, Downs. A sentence of the lesson «The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantinople to the English Channel» of the geography course of Mova's primary school w --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/62-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel/8/) [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/) / [Geography](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/) / [The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voy…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/geography/62-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel/) / 8 # The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantinople to the English Channel, sentence 8 The Downs, like the ones the Rat looks at, are rounded hills of chalk in southern England, covered in short grass. **Who acts:** Rat, Downs · **What happens:** look, be, cover · **To what, where:** ones, rounded hills, southern England This is a sentence of the lesson «The River Thames and the Sea Rat's voyage: from Constantinople to the English Channel» of the geography 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 (Rat, Downs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:geography:062-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel.lesson:8 # text = The Downs, like the ones the Rat looks at, are rounded hills of chalk in southern England, covered in short grass. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = geography # lesson = 062-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel.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): R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Downs Downs PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 14 nsubj _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=14:nsubj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NNS:Number=Plur 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 like like ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 ones one NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nmod _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 Rat Rat PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 9 looks look VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl:relcl _ _ 10 at at ADP IN _ 9 obl _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 12 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 cop _ _ 13 rounded rounded ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 hills hill NOUN NNS Number=Plur 0 root _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 16 chalk chalk NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ _ 17 in in ADP IN _ 19 case _ _ 18 southern southern ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 amod _ _ 19 England England PROPN NNP Number=Sing 14 nmod _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=14:obl 20 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 21 covered cover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 acl _ _ 22 in in ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 short short ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 amod _ _ 24 grass grass NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 25 . . PUNCT . _ 14 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | the Rat | the ones *not said here* | | | | | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme one=Attribute | | 2 | **is a** | present | the Downs like the ones | rounded hills | | southern England | | of chalk | tree rules | | 3 | **cover** | participle | | rounded hills *not said here* | | | | in short grass | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in grass=Theme | 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:geography:062-the-river-thames-and-the-sea-rat-s-voyage-from-constantinople-to-the-english-channel.lesson:8`. **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): R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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