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title: "Give up" means stop trying; "give in" means hand in, and it can als… — Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up · tree and pragmatics
description: "Give up" means stop trying; "give in" means hand in, and it can also mean surrender. Who acts: give. 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 7

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"Give up" means stop trying; "give in" means hand in, and it can also mean surrender.

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**Who acts:** give · **What happens:** give up, mean, stop, try · **To what, where:** hand, surrender · **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 (give), 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:7
# text = "Give up" means stop trying; "give in" means hand in, and it can also mean surrender.
# 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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Give	give	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	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	stop	stop	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
7	trying	try	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	6	xcomp	_	_
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=5:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_
10	give	give	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=10:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
13	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
14	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=13:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf
15	in	in	ADP	RP	_	14	compound:prt	_	_
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	Agree=R1-cc-next|Haiku=13:cc
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	also	also	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	mean	mean	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=13:conj
22	surrender	surrender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **give up** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **stop** *not said to happen* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **try** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **mean** | present | give | hand |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hand=Topic |
| 6 | **mean** | can | give | surrender |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surrender=Topic |

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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:7`.

**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): R1-cc-next ×1, R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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