--- title: Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up — a lesson of Mova's school · trees and pragmatics description: «Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up», a lesson of the language course of Mova's primary school, sentence by sentence with dependency trees and pragmatics. It begins: A phrasal verb is a verb plus a small word like up, out, on, in or off, and together they make a new meaning that you often can't --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/) [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/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up # Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up Lesson 26 of the language course of Mova's primary school: 13 sentences, each with its syntax tree and pragmatics. The lessons are written for Mova, and their agreed trees are part of Mova corpus 0.4 (CC BY-SA 4.0). How Mova does on its tests: [the lesson at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/). - [0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/0/) — A phrasal verb is a verb plus a small word like up, out, on, in or off, and together they make a new meaning that you often can't guess from the parts. - [1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/1/) — On a school morning Mum shouts "Get up!", then "Get out of the bathroom!", then "Get on with your breakfast!"; three "gets", three different jobs. - [2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/2/) — The small word (the particle) changes everything: "give up" means stop trying, but "give in" your homework means hand it in. - [3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/3/) — One phrasal verb can have several meanings, so the situation decides: Dad "picking you up" at 5 means collecting you in the car, not lifting you into the air. - [5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/5/) — A phrasal verb is a verb plus a small word called a particle (up, out, on, in, off, away, down), making a new meaning. - [7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/7/) — "Give up" means stop trying; "give in" means hand in, and it can also mean surrender. - [8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/8/) — "Pick up" can mean lift, collect someone, learn something easily ("she picked up French") or answer the phone. - [9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/9/) — "Make up" can mean invent a story, become friends again after a fight, or put on make-up; "make up your mind" means decide. - [10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/10/) — "Spill the tea" is slang from African American speech, now used by many young people, meaning "share the gossip"; no real tea is spilt. - [12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/12/) — "Put away" means tidy into place, "put on" means wear, "put off" means delay or discourage, and "put up with" means put up with something you don't like, that is, tolerate it. - [13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/13/) — "Chill out" (slang), "simmer down" (an older phrase from cooking) and "calm down" (standard) all mean become calm. - [14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/14/) — "Look up" means find information; with "it" or "them" the particle goes after: "look it up", not "look up it". - [15](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/15/) — "Sort out" means organise or fix; in British slang "sorted" means done or all fine, and a "tip" is a very messy place. - ← previous: [Idioms taken literally](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/25-idioms-taken-literally/) - next →: [Homophones: words that sound the same](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/27-homophones-words-that-sound-the-same/) - ↑ back to [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/)