Test 10 · Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up

Marta says "Can you look up it for me?" How can you help her kindly?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Marta, you · What happens: say, look up, help · To what, where: it, Marta · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 10 of lesson 26 «Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up» of the language course of Mova's primary school. 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

Sentence 1: Marta says "Can you look up it for me?"

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Marta	Marta	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct
4	Can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 look	aux
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 look	nsubj
6	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 says	ccomp
7	up	up	ADP	_	6 look	compound:prt
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 look	obj
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 look	obl
11	?	?	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct
12	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 look	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: ask	present	Marta						vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	look up in a quote	can	you	it				for Marta	vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute

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.

Sentence 2: How can you help her kindly?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	How	how	ADV	PronType=Int	4 help	advmod
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 help	aux
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 help	nsubj
4	help	help	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 help	obj
6	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	4 help	advmod
7	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 help	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	help	can	you		Marta			kindly property	vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary

The options

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

Tell her "look it up" goes with the "it" in the middle

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct
4	look	look	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	8 goes	nsubj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 look	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 look	compound:prt
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct
8	goes	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	parataxis
9	with	with	SCONJ	_	12 it	mark
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 it	det
11	"	"	PUNCT	_	12 it	punct
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 goes	advcl
13	"	"	PUNCT	_	1 Tell	punct
14	in	in	ADP	_	16 middle	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 middle	det
16	middle	middle	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Tell	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she	the middle	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Recipient
2	look up in a quote	infinitive		it			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute
3	go	present					vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

Option 2

Tell her she can't learn English

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 learn	nsubj
4	ca	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 learn	aux
5	n't	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	6 learn	advmod
6	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	ccomp
7	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 learn	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	not learn	can	she	English					vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent english=Topic

Option 3

Tell her "look up it" is perfect, because English has no rules for this

The tree, 14 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Tell	tell	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Tell	iobj
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct
4	look	look	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Tell	ccomp
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 look	compound:prt
6	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 look	obj
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 look	punct
8	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 perfect	cop
9	perfect	perfect	ADJ	Degree=Pos	1 Tell	ccomp
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 has	punct
11	because	because	SCONJ	_	13 has	mark
12	English	English	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 has	nsubj
13	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Tell	parataxis
14	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	15 rules	det
15	rules	rule	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 has	obj
16	for	for	ADP	_	17 this	case
17	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	15 rules	nmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	tell speech: assert	imperative	you not said here		her = she		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
2	look up in a quote	infinitive		it			vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme it=Attribute
3	is	present				perfect property	tree rules
4	have	present	English	no rules		for this	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rule=Patient

Option 4

Laugh and walk away

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Laugh	laugh	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	and	and	CCONJ	_	3 walk	cc
3	walk	walk	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Laugh	conj
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 walk	advmod

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	laugh	imperative	you not said here						vn nonverbal_expression-40.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	walk away	infinitive	you not said here					away property	vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

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