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Test 6 · Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up

A cartoon shows Tom's dad literally lifting him into the car at 5 o'clock. What did "pick you up" really mean?

Mova's choice: option 4 · The right answer: option 4 · right ✓ · Who acts: cartoon · What happens: show, lift, pick up, mean · To what, where: dad, cartoon, car, you

This is test 6 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: A cartoon shows Tom's dad literally lifting him into the car at 5 o'clock.

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 cartoon	det
2	cartoon	cartoon	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	nsubj
3	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	Tom	Tom	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 dad	nmod:poss
5	's	's	PART	_	4 Tom	case
6	dad	dad	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 shows	obj
7	literally	literally	ADV	_	8 lifting	advmod
8	lifting	lift	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 shows	advcl
9	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 lifting	obj
10	into	into	ADP	_	12 car	case
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 car	det
12	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lifting	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	15 o'clock	case
14	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	15 o'clock	nummod
15	o'clock	o'clock	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lifting	obl
16	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 shows	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	show	present	a cartoon		Tom's dad				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent dad=Recipient
2	lift	gerund	a cartoon not said here	cartoon		the car		at 5 o'clock; literally property	vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into car=Destination at o'clock=Initial_Location

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 did "pick you up" really mean?

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 pick	obj
2	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 pick	aux
3	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 pick	punct
4	pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 pick	obj
6	up	up	ADP	_	4 pick	compound:prt
7	"	"	PUNCT	_	4 pick	punct
8	really	really	ADV	_	9 mean	advmod
9	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 pick	advcl
10	?	?	PUNCT	_	4 pick	punct

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick up in a quote	past · do-support		you					tree rules
2	mean	infinitive							vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent

The options

Option 1

Lift into the air

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Lift	lift	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	into	into	ADP	_	4 air	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 air	det
4	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Lift	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 2

Pick him like a flower

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Pick	obj
3	like	like	ADP	_	5 flower	case
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 flower	det
5	flower	flower	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Pick	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pick	imperative	you not said here	him = he				like a flower	vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient

Option 3

Phone at 5

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
2	at	at	ADP	_	3 5	case
3	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	1 Phone	nmod

The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

Option 4 · ← Mova's choice · ✓ the right answer

Collect in the car

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Collect	collect	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	in	in	ADP	_	4 car	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 car	det
4	car	car	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Collect	obl

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	collect	imperative	you not said here			the car			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient

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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