Test 2 · Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up

Freddie says "make up" always means put on make-up. What's true?

Mova's choice: option 1 · The right answer: option 1 · right ✓ · Who acts: Freddie · What happens: say, make up, mean, put on, be · To what, where: make · Speech: someone speaks here

This is test 2 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: Freddie says "make up" always means put on make-up.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Freddie	Freddie	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 says	nsubj
2	says	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
4	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 means	csubj
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 make	compound:prt
6	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 make	punct
7	always	always	ADV	PronType=Tot	8 means	advmod
8	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 says	ccomp
9	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 means	xcomp
10	on	on	ADP	_	9 put	compound:prt
11	make	make	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 put	obl
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 up	punct
13	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 make	compound
14	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 says	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	Freddie			vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	make up in a quote	infinitive				vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme
3	mean	present			always property	vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4	put on not said to happen	participle		make		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.

Sentence 2: What's true?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	3 true	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 true	cop
3	true	true	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 true	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	present						true property	tree rules

The options

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

It can mean invent, become friends again, or put on make-up

The tree, 12 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 mean	nsubj
2	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 mean	aux
3	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	invent	invent	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 mean	xcomp
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 become	punct
6	become	become	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 invent	conj
7	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 become	xcomp
8	again	again	ADV	_	6 become	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 put	punct
10	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 put	cc
11	put	put	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	3 mean	parataxis
12	on	on	ADP	_	15 up	case
13	make	make	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 up	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	15 up	punct
15	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 put	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	roles by
1	mean	can	It				vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	invent not said to happen	infinitive					vn create-26.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	become	infinitive		friends		again	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
4	put	participle			make up		vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on up=Destination

Option 2

It only means become friends

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 means	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 means	advmod
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	become	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 means	ccomp
5	friends	friend	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 become	xcomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	become	present		friends					vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient

Option 3

It only means decide

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 means	nsubj
2	only	only	ADV	_	3 means	advmod
3	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	decide	decide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 means	ccomp

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mean	present	It						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	decide	infinitive							vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent

Option 4

He's right, it has only one meaning, and that's putting on make-up

The tree, 15 words

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 right	nsubj
2	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	cop
3	right	right	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 has	punct
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 has	nsubj
6	has	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 right	csubj
7	only	only	ADV	_	8 one	advmod
8	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	9 meaning	nummod
9	meaning	meaning	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 has	obj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 putting	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 putting	cc
12	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 putting	nsubj
13	's	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 putting	aux
14	putting	put	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 right	advcl
15	on	on	ADP	_	14 putting	compound:prt
16	make	make	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 up	compound
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	18 up	punct
18	up	up	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 putting	obj

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is	present	He		right property	tree rules
2	have	present	it	one meaning		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meaning=Patient
3	put on	present · progressive	that	make up		vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent up=Goal

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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