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title: miscreant — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «miscreant» in the school dictionary: A miscreant is a wicked person or a villain who does bad deeds. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# miscreant

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**Who acts:** miscreant, villain, miscreants, guards · **What happens:** be, do, steal, chase, see, creep · **To what, where:** wicked person, bad deeds, gold, miscreant, town, chance

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«miscreant» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 3 examples, every sentence parsed by Mova itself — its syntax tree, a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies, and its pragmatics clause by clause. The word in the dictionary, with its sense in the lessons: [miscreant in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/miscreant.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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A miscreant is a wicked person or a villain who does bad deeds.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:miscreant:m1:1
# text = A miscreant is a wicked person or a villain who does bad deeds.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	miscreant	miscreant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	wicked	wicked	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	villain	villain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
11	does	do	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
12	bad	bad	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	deeds	deed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | a miscreant | a wicked person or a villain |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **do** | present | a villain | bad deeds |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deed=Eventuality |

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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.

## Example 1 {#x1}

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The miscreants stole the king's gold.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:miscreant:x1:1
# text = The miscreants stole the king's gold.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	miscreants	miscreant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	's	's	PART	POS	_	5	case	_	_
7	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | past | the miscreants | the king's gold |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location gold=Theme |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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The guards chased the miscreant through the town.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:miscreant:x2:1
# text = The guards chased the miscreant through the town.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	chased	chase	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	miscreant	miscreant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **chase** | past | the guards | the miscreant |  | the town |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent miscreant=Theme through town=Trajectory |

## Example 3 {#x3}

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The miscreants saw their chance and crept into the house.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:miscreant:x3:1
# text = The miscreants saw their chance and crept into the house.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	miscreants	miscreant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saw	see	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	crept	creep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	into	into	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past | the miscreants | miscreants's chance |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer chance=Stimulus |
| 2 | **creep** | past | the miscreants *not said here* |  |  | the house |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into house=Destination |
| 3 | **chance** |  | miscreants *= miscreant* |  |  |  |  |  | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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**Text:** the school dictionary of Mova's schools (`world/data/dictionary-schools/`), written for Mova. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each meaning and example read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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