--- title: "Pick up" can mean lift, collect someone, learn something easily ("s… — Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up · tree and pragmatics description: "Pick up" can mean lift, collect someone, learn something easily ("she picked up French") or answer the phone. Who acts: you, verb, phone. 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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 (you, verb, phone), 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:8 # text = "Pick up" can mean lift, collect someone, learn something easily ("she picked up French") or answer the phone. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ _ 2 Pick pick VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 up up ADP RP _ 2 compound:prt _ _ 4 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 5 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 6 aux _ _ 6 mean mean VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 2 conj _ _ 7 lift lift VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 6 xcomp _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=10:punct 9 collect collect VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 10 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 9 obj _ _ 11 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 12 learn learn VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 7 conj _ _ 13 something something PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 12 obj _ _ 14 easily easily ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 15 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 16 " " PUNCT `` _ 18 punct _ _ 17 she she PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 18 picked pick VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 19 up up ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 20 French French PROPN NNP Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 21 " " PUNCT '' _ 18 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=20:punct 22 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 18 punct _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 24 answer answer VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 2 conj _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 phone phone NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: character - polarity: none - teacher: kept the draft | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **pick up** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S\_ING»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **mean** | can | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **lift** *not said to happen* | infinitive | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **collect** | infinitive | you *not said here* | someone | | | | | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme | | 5 | **learn** | infinitive | you *not said here* | something | | | | easily *property* | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic | | 6 | **pick up** *in a quote* | past | verb | French | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent french=Topic | | 7 | **answer** *speech: assert* | infinitive | the phone | | | | | | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:language:026-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up.lesson:8`. **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 ×2, 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. 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