Exam question 3 · Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up

Select the grammatically acceptable construction employing the pronoun "it" with the verb "look up".

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: you, acceptable construction · What happens: select, employ, look up · To what, where: acceptable construction, pronoun · Speech: someone speaks here

This is exam question 3 of lesson 26 «Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up» of the language course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: the test at school.

The question

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Select	select	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 construction	det
3	grammatically	grammatically	ADV	_	4 acceptable	advmod
4	acceptable	acceptable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 construction	amod
5	construction	construction	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Select	obj
6	employing	employ	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 construction	acl
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 pronoun	det
8	pronoun	pronoun	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 employing	obj
9	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 it	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 pronoun	appos
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	10 it	punct
12	with	with	ADP	_	14 verb	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 verb	det
14	verb	verb	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 employing	obl
15	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 look	punct
16	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Select	parataxis
17	up	up	ADP	_	16 look	compound:prt
18	"	"	PUNCT	_	16 look	punct
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Select	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	select	imperative	you not said here	the acceptable construction		vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent construction=Theme clause=Attribute
2	employ	gerund	the acceptable construction not said here	the pronoun	with the verb	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pronoun=Theme
3	look up in a quote	infinitive				vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus

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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Look it up

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Look	obj
3	up	up	ADP	_	1 Look	compound:prt

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look up	imperative	you not said here	it					vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute

Option 2

Look it upward

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Look	obj
3	upward	upward	ADV	_	1 Look	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here	it				upward property	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute

Option 3

Up look it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Up	up	ADV	_	2 look	advmod
2	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 look	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look	imperative	you not said here	it					vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute

Option 4

Look up it

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	up	up	ADP	_	1 Look	compound:prt
3	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Look	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	look up	imperative	you not said here	it					vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute

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