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title: "Chill out" (slang), "simmer down" (an older phrase from cooking) an… — Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up · tree and pragmatics
description: "Chill out" (slang), "simmer down" (an older phrase from cooking) and "calm down" (standard) all mean become calm. A sentence of the lesson «Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up, sentence 13

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"Chill out" (slang), "simmer down" (an older phrase from cooking) and "calm down" (standard) all mean become calm.

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**What happens:** chill out, simmer down, calm down, mean, become · **To what, where:** older phrase · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:13
# text = "Chill out" (slang), "simmer down" (an older phrase from cooking) and "calm down" (standard) all mean become calm.
# 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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Chill	chill	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	29	nsubj	_	_
3	out	out	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
6	slang	slang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
7	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	6	punct	_	_
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
10	simmer	simmer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=2:conj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing
11	down	down	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
13	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	16	punct	_	_
14	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	older	old	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	amod	_	_
16	phrase	phrase	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	cooking	cooking	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	16	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	_
22	calm	calm	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
25	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	_
26	standard	standard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
27	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
28	all	all	ADV	RB	PronType=Tot	29	advmod	_	_
29	mean	mean	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
30	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	_
31	calm	calm	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	xcomp	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	29	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chill out** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | a older phrase from cooking |  |  |  | standard *obl*; down *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **simmer down** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn cooking-45.3 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **calm down** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  | all *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **become** *not said to happen* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | calm *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |

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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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**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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R8-pos-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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