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title: Your teacher says "Stop putting it off and start your project!" What… — Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up · tree and pragmatics
description: Your teacher says "Stop putting it off and start your project!" What have you been doing? Test 8 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 right
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# Test 8 · Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up

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Your teacher says "Stop putting it off and start your project!" What have you been doing?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 1 · right ✓ · **Who acts:** teacher, your, you · **What happens:** say, stop, put off, start, project, do · **To what, where:** teacher, project · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is test 8 of lesson 26 «Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up» of the language course of Mova's primary school. 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/#t8).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Your teacher says "Stop putting it off and start your project!"

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up:t8:1
# text = Your teacher says "Stop putting it off and start your project!"
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	teacher	teacher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	Stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
6	putting	put	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	xcomp	_	_
7	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	_
8	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	start	start	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
11	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	project	project	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | present | Your teacher |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **stop** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **put off** *in a quote* | gerund |  | teacher |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal |
| 4 | **start** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | your project |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent project=Eventuality |
| 5 | **project** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom project «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* What have you been doing?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up:t8:2
# text = What have you been doing?
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	5	obj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
3	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux	_	_
5	doing	do	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present · perfect · progressive | you |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |

## The options {#options}

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

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Delaying it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up:t8:o1:1
# text = Delaying it
1	Delaying	delay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	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 | **delay** | gerund |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn delay-53.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent it=Source |

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Finishing it early

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up:t8:o2:1
# text = Finishing it early
1	Finishing	finish	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	early	early	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **finish** | gerund |  | it |  |  |  | early *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Subeventuality it=Eventuality |

### Option 3 {#o3}

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Wearing it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up:t8:o3:1
# text = Wearing it
1	Wearing	wear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	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 | **wear** | gerund |  | it |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Theme |

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Tidying it

```conllu
# sent_id = question:language:26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up:t8:o4:1
# text = Tidying it
1	Tidying	tidy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
2	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 | **tidy** | gerund |  | it |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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