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title: "Look up" means find information; with "it" or "them" the particle g… — Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up · tree and pragmatics
description: "Look up" means find information; with "it" or "them" the particle goes after: "look it up", not "look up it". Who acts: particle. 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 c
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# Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up, sentence 14

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"Look up" means find information; with "it" or "them" the particle goes after: "look it up", not "look up it".

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**Who acts:** particle · **What happens:** look up, mean, find, go, not look up · **To what, where:** information, particle · **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: who acts (particle), 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:14
# text = "Look up" means find information; with "it" or "them" the particle goes after: "look it up", not "look up it".
# 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nsubj
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
7	information	information	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=2:parataxis
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	11	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
13	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	conj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=19:nsubj
16	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	particle	particle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	goes	go	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
20	after	after	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
22	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	23	punct	_	_
23	look	look	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	up	up	ADP	RP	_	23	compound:prt	_	_
26	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	30	advmod	_	_
29	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	30	punct	_	_
30	look	look	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
31	up	up	ADP	RP	_	30	compound:prt	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	_
33	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	30	punct	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look up** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **find** *not said to happen* | infinitive |  | information |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent information=Topic |
| 4 | **go** | present | the particle |  |  |  |  | with information | vn help-72.1-2 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent with it=Beneficiary |
| 5 | **look up** *in a quote* | infinitive | the particle *not said here* | particle |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute |
| 6 | **not** **look up** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | particle |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute |

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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): R5-strong ×2, R6-punct-agree ×4, R7-rel-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.

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