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

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Downs	det
2	Downs	Downs	PROPN	Number=Plur	14 hills	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Downs	punct
4	like	like	ADP	_	6 ones	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 ones	det
6	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 Downs	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Rat	det
8	Rat	Rat	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 looks	nsubj
9	looks	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 ones	acl:relcl
10	at	at	ADP	_	9 looks	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 Downs	punct
12	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 hills	cop
13	rounded	rounded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 hills	amod
14	hills	hill	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 chalk	case
16	chalk	chalk	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 hills	nmod
17	in	in	ADP	_	19 England	case
18	southern	southern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 England	amod
19	England	England	PROPN	Number=Sing	14 hills	nmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 covered	punct
21	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 hills	acl
22	in	in	ADP	_	24 grass	case
23	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 grass	amod
24	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 covered	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 hills	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	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, 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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