--- title: In Scotland «chuckin' it doon» means raining very hard, «oot» means… — Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hy… · tree and pragmatics description: In Scotland «chuckin' it doon» means raining very hard, «oot» means out, and «soaked tae the bone» means very wet, not hurt. Who acts: pain, chuckin, oot. A sentence of the lesson «Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole» of the language course of Mova's primary school with its depen --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/44-starving-a-million-times-and-a-ton-everyday-hyperbole/15/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/) / [Language](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/) / [Starving, a million times and a ton: e…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/44-starving-a-million-times-and-a-ton-everyday-hyperbole/) / 15 # Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole, sentence 15 In Scotland «chuckin' it doon» means raining very hard, «oot» means out, and «soaked tae the bone» means very wet, not hurt. **Who acts:** pain, chuckin, oot · **What happens:** doon, mean, rain, mean out, soak, not hurt · **To what, where:** Scotland, bone · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «Starving, a million times and a ton: everyday hyperbole» 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 (pain, chuckin, oot), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:044-starving-a-million-times-and-a-ton-everyday-hyperbole.lesson:15 # text = In Scotland «chuckin' it doon» means raining very hard, «oot» means out, and «soaked tae the bone» means very wet, not hurt. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 044-starving-a-million-times-and-a-ton-everyday-hyperbole.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×2 1 In in ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 2 Scotland Scotland PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 3 « « PUNCT `` _ 4 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=2:punct 4 chuckin chuckin NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 nsubj _ _ 5 ' ' PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ _ 6 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 7 doon doon NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 conj _ _ 8 » » PUNCT '' _ 4 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=4:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 9 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 10 raining rain VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 9 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=9:ccomp 11 very very ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ _ 12 hard hard ADV RB Degree=Pos 10 advmod _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=15:punct 14 « « PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ _ 15 oot oot NOUN NN Number=Sing 17 nsubj _ _ 16 » » PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=17:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 17 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 18 out out ADP RP _ 17 compound:prt _ _ 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 22 cc _ _ 21 « « PUNCT `` _ 22 punct _ _ 22 soaked soak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 9 conj _ _ 23 tae tae X FW Foreign=Yes 22 conj _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 bone bone NOUN NN Number=Sing 22 obj _ _ 26 » » PUNCT '' _ 27 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=27:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:,:_ 27 means mean VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 28 very very ADV RB _ 29 advmod _ _ 29 wet wet ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 27 xcomp _ _ 30 , , PUNCT , _ 32 punct _ _ 31 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 32 advmod _ _ 32 hurt hurt VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 27 conj _ _ 33 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **doon** *in a quote* | | pain | | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **mean** | present | chuckin and doon | Scotland | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 3 | **rain** *not said to happen* | gerund | chuckin and doon *not said here* | | | | | hard *property* | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | | 4 | **mean out** | present | oot | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 5 | **soak** *in a quote* | participle | chuckin and doon *not said here* | the bone | | | | | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent bone=Source | | 6 | **mean** | present | | | | | | wet *property* | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 7 | **not** **hurt** | infinitive | | | | | | | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | 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. 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