miscreant
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
«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.
Meaning 1
A miscreant is a wicked person or a villain who does bad deeds.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 miscreant | det |
| 2 | miscreant | miscreant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 person | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 person | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 person | det |
| 5 | wicked | wicked | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 person | amod |
| 6 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 9 villain | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 villain | det |
| 9 | villain | villain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 person | conj |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 does | nsubj |
| 11 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 villain | acl:relcl |
| 12 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 deeds | amod |
| 13 | deeds | deed | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 does | obj |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 person | punct |
| # | 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 |
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
The miscreants stole the king's gold.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 miscreants | det |
| 2 | miscreants | miscreant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 stole | nsubj |
| 3 | stole | steal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 king | det |
| 5 | king | king | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gold | nmod:poss |
| 6 | 's | 's | PART | _ | 5 king | case |
| 7 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stole | obj |
| 8 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stole | punct |
| # | 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
The guards chased the miscreant through the town.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 guards | det |
| 2 | guards | guard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 chased | nsubj |
| 3 | chased | chase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 miscreant | det |
| 5 | miscreant | miscreant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chased | obj |
| 6 | through | through | ADP | _ | 8 town | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 town | det |
| 8 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 chased | obl |
| 9 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 chased | punct |
| # | 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
The miscreants saw their chance and crept into the house.
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 miscreants | det |
| 2 | miscreants | miscreant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 saw | nsubj |
| 3 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 chance | nmod:poss |
| 5 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 saw | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 crept | cc |
| 7 | crept | creep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saw | conj |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 house | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 house | det |
| 10 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crept | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saw | punct |
| # | 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 |
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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