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title: A phrasal verb is a verb plus a small word like up, out, on, in or o… — Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up · tree and pragmatics
description: 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. Who acts: phrasal verb, they, you. A sentence of the lesson «Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up» of the language course of Mova's primary schoo
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# Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up, sentence 0

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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.

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**Who acts:** phrasal verb, they, you · **What happens:** be, make, not guess · **To what, where:** verb, new meaning, parts

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up» of the language 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 (phrasal verb, they, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:language:026-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up.lesson:0
# text = 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.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = language
# lesson = 026-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	phrasal	phrasal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	verb	verb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	verb	verb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	plus	plus	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
11	like	like	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	up	up	ADV	RB	_	10	nmod	_	_
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	out	out	ADV	RB	_	12	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=6:advmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	on	on	ADV	RB	_	14	conj	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=25:punct
18	in	in	ADV	RB	_	14	conj	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
20	off	off	ADV	RB	_	14	conj	_	_
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	together	together	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
24	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	make	make	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	34	obj	_	_
30	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
31	often	often	ADV	RB	_	34	advmod	_	_
32	ca	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	34	aux	_	_
33	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
34	guess	guess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	acl	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	obl	_	_
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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- form: statement
- act: assert
- voice: narrator
- polarity: none
- teacher: changed act=assert

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a phrasal verb | a verb plus a small word |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | present | they | a new meaning |  |  |  | together *property* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meaning=Product |
| 3 | **not** **guess** | can | you | a new meaning |  | the parts |  | often *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |

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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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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:language:026-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up.lesson:0`.

**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): R5-strong ×1, R6-punct-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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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