--- title: In Scots, "Away and bile yer heid!" (go and boil your head) means "g… — Idioms taken literally · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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(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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:025-idioms-taken-literally.lesson:15 # text = 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. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 025-idioms-taken-literally.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): R3-conj-first ×1, R6-punct-agree ×2, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 In in ADP IN _ 2 case _ _ 2 Scots Scot PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 19 obl _ _ 3 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 4 " " PUNCT `` _ 5 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 5 Away Away PROPN NNP Number=Sing 19 nsubj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 bile bile NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ _ 8 yer your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 heid heid NOUN NN Number=Sing 5 conj _ Agree=R3-conj-first|Haiku=7:conj 10 ! ! PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ 11 " " PUNCT '' _ 5 punct _ _ 12 ( ( PUNCT -LRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 13 go go VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 15 cc _ _ 15 boil boil VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 16 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 17 head head NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 obj _ _ 18 ) ) PUNCT -RRB- _ 13 punct _ _ 19 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 21 punct _ _ 21 go go VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 19 conj _ _ 22 away away ADV RB _ 21 advmod _ _ 23 " " PUNCT '' _ 21 punct _ _ 24 or or CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 25 " " PUNCT `` _ 28 punct _ _ 26 do do AUX VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=28:aux|HaikuPos=AUX:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 28 advmod _ _ 28 talk talk VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 conj _ _ 29 nonsense nonsense NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 30 " " PUNCT '' _ 28 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=29:punct 31 ; ; PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 32 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 34 nsubj _ _ 33 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 34 cheeky cheeky ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 19 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=19:conj 35 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 36 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 39 advmod _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 real real ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 39 amod _ _ 39 threat threat NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 conj _ _ 40 . . PUNCT . _ 19 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** | 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](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: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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Idioms taken literally, 14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/25-idioms-taken-literally/14/) - next →: [Idioms taken literally, 16](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/25-idioms-taken-literally/16/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/25-idioms-taken-literally/)