--- title: Ascertain the meaning of "to put up with" in standard English usage. — Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up · tree and pragmatics description: Ascertain the meaning of "to put up with" in standard English usage. Exam question 4 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; Mova's choice was wrong. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/e4/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [questions](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/) / [Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/questions/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/) / e4 # Exam question 4 · Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up Ascertain the meaning of "to put up with" in standard English usage. **Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 4 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** ascertain, put up · **To what, where:** meaning This is exam question 4 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/#e4). ## The question {#question} ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up:e4:1 # text = Ascertain the meaning of "to put up with" in standard English usage. 1 Ascertain ascertain VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 meaning meaning NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 7 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 6 to to PART TO _ 7 mark _ _ 7 put put VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 acl _ _ 8 up up ADP RP _ 7 compound:prt _ _ 9 with with ADP IN _ 14 case _ SpaceAfter=No 10 " " PUNCT `` _ 14 punct _ _ 11 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 12 standard standard ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 13 English English ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 amod _ _ 14 usage usage NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 15 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascertain** | imperative | you *not said here* | the meaning | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic | | 2 | **put up** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | the meaning *not said here* | | | | with standard English usage | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent | 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 {#o1} To postpone ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up:e4:o1:1 # text = To postpone 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 postpone postpone VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **postpone** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn delay-53.3-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent | ### Option 2 {#o2} To store ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up:e4:o2:1 # text = To store 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 store store VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **store** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ### Option 3 {#o3} To construct ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up:e4:o3:1 # text = To construct 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 construct construct VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **construct** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ### Option 4 · ✓ the right answer {#o4} To tolerate ```conllu # sent_id = question:language:26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up:e4:o4:1 # text = To tolerate 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 tolerate tolerate VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ ``` | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **tolerate** | to-infinitive | | | | | | | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | **Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. 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