Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up, sentence 8

"Pick up" can mean lift, collect someone, learn something easily ("she picked up French") or answer the phone.

Who acts: you, verb, phone · What happens: pick up, mean, lift, collect, learn, answer · To what, where: someone, something, French · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Phrasal verbs: get up, give up, make up» of the language course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, verb, phone), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	"	"	PUNCT	_	2 Pick	punct
2	Pick	pick	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	up	up	ADP	_	2 Pick	compound:prt
4	"	"	PUNCT	_	6 mean	punct
5	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 mean	aux
6	mean	mean	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 Pick	conj
7	lift	lift	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 mean	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 collect	punct
9	collect	collect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 lift	conj
10	someone	someone	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	9 collect	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 learn	punct
12	learn	learn	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 lift	conj
13	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	12 learn	obj
14	easily	easily	ADV	_	12 learn	advmod
15	(	(	PUNCT	_	18 picked	punct
16	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 picked	punct
17	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 picked	nsubj
18	picked	pick	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 Pick	parataxis
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 picked	compound:prt
20	French	French	PROPN	Number=Sing	18 picked	obj
21	"	"	PUNCT	_	18 picked	punct
22	)	)	PUNCT	_	18 picked	punct
23	or	or	CCONJ	_	24 answer	cc
24	answer	answer	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 Pick	conj
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 phone	det
26	phone	phone	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 answer	obj
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 Pick	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: character
polarity: none
teacher: kept the draft

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	pick up in a quote	imperative	you not said here			vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent
2	mean	can	you not said here			vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	lift not said to happen	infinitive	you not said here			vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	collect	infinitive	you not said here	someone		vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent someone=Theme
5	learn	infinitive	you not said here	something	easily property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Topic
6	pick up in a quote	past	verb	French		vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent french=Topic
7	answer speech: assert	infinitive	the phone			vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: 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.

Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:language:026-phrasal-verbs-get-up-give-up-make-up.lesson:8.

The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R6-punct-agree ×2, R8-pos-agree ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

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