---
title: A phrasal verb is a verb plus a small word called a particle (up, ou… — Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up · tree and pragmatics
description: A phrasal verb is a verb plus a small word called a particle (up, out, on, in, off, away, down), making a new meaning. Who acts: phrasal verb, small word. 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 t
---

<!-- md -->
[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/5/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/) / 5

# Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up, sentence 5

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
A phrasal verb is a verb plus a small word called a particle (up, out, on, in, off, away, down), making a new meaning.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** phrasal verb, small word · **What happens:** be, call, make · **To what, where:** verb, particle, new meaning · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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, small word), 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:5
# text = A phrasal verb is a verb plus a small word called a particle (up, out, on, in, off, away, down), making a new meaning.
# 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 ×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	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	particle	particle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	xcomp	_	_
14	(	(	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	15	punct	_	_
15	up	up	ADV	RB	_	13	appos	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	out	out	ADV	RB	_	15	conj	_	_
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	on	on	ADV	RB	_	15	conj	_	_
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADV	RB	_	15	conj	_	_
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
23	off	off	ADV	RB	_	15	conj	_	_
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	away	away	ADV	RB	_	15	conj	_	_
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	down	down	ADV	RB	_	15	conj	_	_
28	)	)	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	15	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=27:punct
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	meaning	meaning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .note -->
No stored speech act for this sentence.

<!-- .fr -->
| # | 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 | **call** | participle | a small word *not said here* | a particle |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | gerund | a small word *not said here* | a new meaning |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meaning=Product |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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:5`.

**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 ×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/).

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up, 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/3/)
- next →: [Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up, 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/7/)
- ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/26-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up/)

