--- title: One phrasal verb can have several meanings, so the situation decides… — Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up · tree and pragmatics description: 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. Who acts: One phrasal verb, situation, Dad. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One phrasal verb, situation, Dad), 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:3 # text = 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. # 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 ×2 1 One one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 3 nummod _ _ 2 phrasal phrasal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 3 amod _ _ 3 verb verb NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 4 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 5 aux _ _ 5 have have VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 several several ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 7 meanings meaning NOUN NNS Number=Plur 5 obj _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 9 so so ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 10 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 situation situation NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nsubj _ _ 12 decides decide VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 13 : : PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 14 Dad dad NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 nsubj _ _ 15 " " PUNCT `` _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=14:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 16 picking pick VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 14 acl _ _ 17 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 16 obj _ _ 18 up up ADP RP _ 16 compound:prt _ _ 19 " " PUNCT '' _ 16 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=22:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 20 at at ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 5 5 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 16 obl _ _ 22 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 12 parataxis _ _ 23 collecting collect VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 22 xcomp _ _ 24 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 23 obj _ _ 25 in in ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 car car NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 obl _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 29 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 30 advmod _ _ 30 lifting lift VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 23 conj _ _ 31 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 30 obj _ _ 32 into into ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 air air NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **have** | can | One phrasal verb | several meanings | | | | | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Patient | | 2 | **decide** | present | the situation | | | | | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **pick up** *in a quote* | gerund | Dad *not said here* | you | | 5 | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | | 4 | **mean** | present | Dad | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **collect** *not said to happen* | gerund | Dad *not said here* | you | | the car | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | | 6 | **not** **lift** | gerund | Dad *not said here* | you | | the air | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme into air=Destination | 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. **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. 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