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description: Select the grammatically acceptable construction employing the pronoun "it" with the verb "look up". Exam question 3 of lesson 26 «Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up» of the language course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of the question and of each option; Mov
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# Exam question 3 · Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up

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Select the grammatically acceptable construction employing the pronoun "it" with the verb "look up".

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** you, acceptable construction · **What happens:** select, employ, look up · **To what, where:** acceptable construction, pronoun · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is exam question 3 of lesson 26 «Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up» of the language course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/#e3).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up:e3:1
# text = Select the grammatically acceptable construction employing the pronoun "it" with the verb "look up".
1	Select	select	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
3	grammatically	grammatically	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	acceptable	acceptable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	construction	construction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
6	employing	employ	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	5	acl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	pronoun	pronoun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	verb	verb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
15	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
17	up	up	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **select** | imperative | you *not said here* | the acceptable construction |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent construction=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **employ** | gerund | the acceptable construction *not said here* | the pronoun |  |  |  | with the verb | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pronoun=Theme |
| 3 | **look up** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |

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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.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer {#o1}

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Look it up

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up:e3:o1:1
# text = Look it up
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look up** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Look it upward

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up:e3:o2:1
# text = Look it upward
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	upward	upward	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  | upward *property* | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Up look it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up:e3:o3:1
# text = Up look it
1	Up	up	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Look up it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up:e3:o4:1
# text = Look up it
1	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	up	up	ADP	RP	_	1	compound:prt	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look up** | imperative | you *not said here* | it |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute |

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