--- title: "Go take a running jump" means go away; it is a British way of telli… — Soft words for hard things: rudeness and swearing · tree and pragmatics description: "Go take a running jump" means go away; it is a British way of telling someone off. Who acts: running jump, jump, British way. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (running jump, jump, British way), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:euphemisms:040-with-all-due-respect.lesson:7 # text = "Go take a running jump" means go away; it is a British way of telling someone off. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = euphemisms # lesson = 040-with-all-due-respect.lesson # annotation = 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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 " " PUNCT `` _ 2 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=3:punct 2 Go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 compound _ _ 3 take take VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 6 acl _ _ 4 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 5 running running NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 compound _ _ 6 jump jump NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 nsubj _ _ 7 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ _ 8 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 9 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 8 ccomp _ _ 10 away away ADV RB _ 9 advmod _ _ 11 ; ; PUNCT , _ 16 punct _ _ 12 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 16 nsubj _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 14 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 15 British British ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:conj 17 of of SCONJ IN _ 18 mark _ _ 18 telling tell VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 16 acl _ _ 19 someone someone PRON NN Number=Sing|PronType=Ind 18 obj _ _ 20 off off ADP RP _ 18 compound:prt _ _ 21 . . PUNCT . _ 8 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **go** *in a quote* | infinitive | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **take** *in a quote* | infinitive | a running jump *not said here* | | | | | | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **mean** | present | a running jump | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 4 | **go away** | infinitive | | | | | | away *property* | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is a** | present | jump | a British way | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **tell off** *speech: assert* | gerund | a British way *not said here* | | someone | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent someone=Recipient | 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](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/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:euphemisms:040-with-all-due-respect.lesson:7`. **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 ×1, R7-rel-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/6/) - next →: [Soft words for hard things: rudeness a…, 8](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/8/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/euphemisms/40-with-all-due-respect/)