How does tick off come to mean reprimand, scold.etc., where does it comes from? [closed]

Apparently from UK military slag from the early 1900s.

The 'chastised' meaning is of UK military origin and dates from the early 20th century and is now rather outmoded. It is usually applied to a child or subordinate. the earliest known citation of it in print is in a 1915 letter which was later published in Wilfred Owen's Collected Letters:

• "He has been 'ticked-off' four or five times for it; but is not yet shot at dawn."

(The Phrase Finder)

Probably from the earlier sense of “making a mark beside an item on a list”

perhaps via World War I military bureaucratic sense of being marked off from a list as "dismissed" or "ineligible."

(Etymonline)