Idioms taken literally, sentence 15
In Scots, "Away and bile yer heid!" (go and boil your head) means "go away" or "don't talk nonsense"; it is cheeky, not a real threat.
Who acts: Away, head · What happens: go, boil, mean, go away, not talk, be · To what, where: head, nonsense · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Idioms taken literally» 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 (Away, head), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 2 Scots | case |
| 2 | Scots | Scot | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 means | obl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Scots | punct |
| 4 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Away | punct |
| 5 | Away | Away | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 means | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 bile | cc |
| 7 | bile | bile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Away | conj |
| 8 | yer | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 heid | nmod:poss |
| 9 | heid | heid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Away | conj |
| 10 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 5 Away | punct |
| 11 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Away | punct |
| 12 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 13 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 Away | parataxis |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 boil | cc |
| 15 | boil | boil | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 13 go | conj |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 head | nmod:poss |
| 17 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 boil | obj |
| 18 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 13 go | punct |
| 19 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 21 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 means | conj |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 21 go | advmod |
| 23 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 go | punct |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 talk | cc |
| 25 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 talk | punct |
| 26 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 28 talk | aux |
| 27 | n't | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 28 talk | advmod |
| 28 | talk | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 go | conj |
| 29 | nonsense | nonsense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 talk | obj |
| 30 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 28 talk | punct |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 cheeky | punct |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 cheeky | nsubj |
| 33 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 cheeky | cop |
| 34 | cheeky | cheeky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 means | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 threat | punct |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 threat | advmod |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 threat | det |
| 38 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 threat | amod |
| 39 | threat | threat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 cheeky | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 means | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | infinitive | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | boil | infinitive | your head | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent head=Patient | |||||
| 3 | mean | present | Away and bile and yer's heid | in Scots | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in scot=Attribute | ||||
| 4 | go away in a quote | infinitive | Away and bile and yer's heid not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | not talk in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Away and bile and yer's heid not said here | nonsense | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent nonsense=Patient | ||||
| 6 | is | present | head | cheeky property | tree rules |
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:025-idioms-taken-literally.lesson:15.
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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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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