Exam question 4 · Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up

Ascertain the meaning of "to put up with" in standard English usage.

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 4 · wrong ✗ · Who acts: you · What happens: ascertain, put up · To what, where: meaning

This is exam question 4 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	Ascertain	ascertain	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 meaning	det
3	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Ascertain	obj
4	of	of	SCONJ	_	7 put	mark
5	"	"	PUNCT	_	7 put	punct
6	to	to	PART	_	7 put	mark
7	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 meaning	acl
8	up	up	ADP	_	7 put	compound:prt
9	with	with	ADP	_	14 usage	case
10	"	"	PUNCT	_	14 usage	punct
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 usage	case
12	standard	standard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 usage	amod
13	English	English	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 usage	amod
14	usage	usage	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 put	obl
15	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Ascertain	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	ascertain	imperative	you not said here	the meaning					vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Topic
2	put up in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	the meaning not said here				with standard English usage	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: 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.

The options

Option 1 · ← Mova's choice

To postpone

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 postpone	mark
2	postpone	postpone	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	postpone	to-infinitive							vn delay-53.3-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent

Option 2

To store

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 store	mark
2	store	store	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	store	to-infinitive							vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 3

To construct

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 construct	mark
2	construct	construct	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	construct	to-infinitive							vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

Option 4 · ✓ the right answer

To tolerate

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 tolerate	mark
2	tolerate	tolerate	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tolerate	to-infinitive							vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer

Text: the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (world/data/school/), as the course runner gave them to the student. Trees: Mova's own parse — the en model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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