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title: "Make up" can mean invent a story, become friends again after a figh… — Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up · tree and pragmatics
description: "Make up" can mean invent a story, become friends again after a fight, or put on make-up; "make up your mind" means decide. Who acts: you, your. 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 pragmat
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# Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up, sentence 9

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"Make up" can mean invent a story, become friends again after a fight, or put on make-up; "make up your mind" means decide.

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**Who acts:** you, your · **What happens:** make up, mean, invent, become, put on, decide · **To what, where:** story, friends, make, mind · **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 (you, your), 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:9
# text = "Make up" can mean invent a story, become friends again after a fight, or put on make-up; "make up your mind" means decide.
# 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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3
1	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	_
2	Make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	up	up	ADP	RP	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=6:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_
5	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	mean	mean	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
7	invent	invent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	become	become	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
12	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	xcomp	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
14	after	after	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
20	on	on	ADP	RP	_	19	compound:prt	_	_
21	make	make	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=21:punct
23	up	up	ADP	RP	_	21	compound	_	_
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
26	make	make	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	up	up	ADP	RP	_	26	compound:prt	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=31:nsubj
30	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct
31	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	parataxis	_	_
32	decide	decide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	xcomp	_	_
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	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 | **make up** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mean** | can |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **invent** *not said to happen* | infinitive |  | a story |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent story=Result |
| 4 | **become** | infinitive |  | friends |  |  | after a fight; again |  | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **put on** | infinitive |  | make |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent make=Goal |
| 6 | **make up** *in a quote* | infinitive | you *not said here* | your mind |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **mean** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 8 | **decide** *not said to happen* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 9 | **mind** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom mind «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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 ×1, R6-punct-agree ×3. **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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