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title: ethnology — school dictionary · trees and pragmatics
description: «ethnology» in the school dictionary: Ethnology is the study of different peoples, their customs, beliefs and stories. Every meaning for a pupil with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# ethnology

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**Who acts:** Ethnology, collection, peoples, stories · **What happens:** be, come, look, live, tell · **To what, where:** study, Bureau, stories · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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«ethnology» in the school dictionary: its meaning for a pupil and its 2 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: [ethnology in the school dictionary](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/ethnology.md).

## Meaning 1 {#m1}

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Ethnology is the study of different peoples, their customs, beliefs and stories.

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```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ethnology:m1:1
# text = Ethnology is the study of different peoples, their customs, beliefs and stories.
1	Ethnology	ethnology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	study	study	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	customs	custom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	beliefs	belief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Ethnology | the study |  |  |  | of different peoples and peoples's customs and beliefs and stories | tree rules |

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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 collection came from the Bureau of Ethnology.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ethnology:x1:1
# text = The collection came from the Bureau of Ethnology.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	collection	collection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	from	from	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Bureau	Bureau	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Ethnology	ethnology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the collection |  |  | the Bureau of Ethnology |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from bureau=Initial\_Location |

## Example 2 {#x2}

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Ethnology looks at how peoples live and what stories they tell.

```conllu
# sent_id = dict:school:ethnology:x2:1
# text = Ethnology looks at how peoples live and what stories they tell.
1	Ethnology	ethnology	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	looks	look	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
4	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	peoples	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
6	live	live	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	6	obl	_	_
9	stories	story	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	tell	tell	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **look** | present | Ethnology |  |  |  |  |  | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **live** | present | peoples |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present | stories *= story* | stories *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient |

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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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