--- title: Imagine a stranger walks into your house, plants a flag in the kitch… — When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and… · tree and pragmatics description: Imagine a stranger walks into your house, plants a flag in the kitchen and announces he has «discovered» it while your family is eating dinner; that is why many teachers now put a question mark after «Columbus discovered America»: millions of people already lived there, and for them 1492 was an arri --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/76-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides/0/) [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/) / [History](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/) / [When civilizations meet: conquest, col…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/76-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides/) / 0 # When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and freedom, seen from both sides, sentence 0 Imagine a stranger walks into your house, plants a flag in the kitchen and announces he has «discovered» it while your family is eating dinner; that is why many teachers now put a question mark after «Columbus discovered America»: millions of people already lived there, and for them 1492 was an arrival, then an invasion. **Who acts:** you, stranger, family, that, many teachers, Columbus · **What happens:** imagine, walk, plant, announce, discover, eat · **To what, where:** house, flag, kitchen, dinner, question mark, America · **Speech:** someone speaks here This is a sentence of the lesson «When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and freedom, seen from both sides» of the history 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 (you, stranger, family, that), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:history:076-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides.lesson:0 # text = Imagine a stranger walks into your house, plants a flag in the kitchen and announces he has «discovered» it while your family is eating dinner; that is why many teachers now put a question mark after «Columbus discovered America»: millions of people already lived there, and for them 1492 was an arrival, then an invasion. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = history # lesson = 076-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides.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): R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Imagine imagine VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 stranger stranger NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 nsubj _ _ 4 walks walk VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 ccomp _ _ 5 into into ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 house house NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 obl _ _ 8 , , PUNCT , _ 9 punct _ _ 9 plants plant VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 10 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 11 det _ _ 11 flag flag NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obj _ _ 12 in in ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 kitchen kitchen NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 announces announce VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 18 has have AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux _ _ 19 « « PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ _ 20 discovered discover VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 16 ccomp _ _ 21 » » PUNCT '' _ 20 punct _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 20 obj _ _ 23 while while SCONJ IN _ 27 mark _ _ 24 your your PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 25 nmod:poss _ _ 25 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nsubj _ _ 26 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 27 aux _ _ 27 eating eat VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 20 advcl _ _ 28 dinner dinner NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT : _ 4 punct _ _ 30 that that PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 31 nsubj _ _ 31 is be VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 32 why why ADV WRB PronType=Int 36 advmod _ _ 33 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 teachers teacher NOUN NNS Number=Plur 36 nsubj _ _ 35 now now ADV RB PronType=Dem 36 advmod _ _ 36 put put VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 31 parataxis _ _ 37 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 39 det _ _ 38 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 compound _ _ 39 mark mark NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 obj _ _ 40 after after SCONJ IN _ 43 mark _ _ 41 « « PUNCT `` _ 43 punct _ _ 42 Columbus Columbus PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 nsubj _ _ 43 discovered discover VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 36 advcl _ _ 44 America America PROPN NNP Number=Sing 43 obj _ _ 45 » » PUNCT '' _ 43 punct _ _ 46 : : PUNCT : _ 51 punct _ _ 47 millions million NOUN NNS Number=Plur 51 nsubj _ _ 48 of of ADP IN _ 49 case _ _ 49 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 47 nmod _ _ 50 already already ADV RB _ 51 advmod _ _ 51 lived live VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ _ 52 there there ADV RB PronType=Dem 51 advmod _ _ 53 , , PUNCT , _ 60 punct _ _ 54 and and CCONJ CC _ 60 cc _ _ 55 for for ADP IN _ 56 case _ _ 56 them they PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 60 obl _ _ 57 1492 1492 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 60 nsubj _ _ 58 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 60 cop _ _ 59 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 60 det _ _ 60 arrival arrival NOUN NN Number=Sing 51 conj _ _ 61 , , PUNCT , _ 64 punct _ _ 62 then then ADV RB PronType=Dem 64 advmod _ _ 63 an a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 64 det _ _ 64 invasion invasion NOUN NN Number=Sing 60 appos _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=60:conj 65 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **imagine** | imperative | you *not said here* | | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **walk** | present | a stranger | | | | | into your house *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into house=Result | | 3 | **plant** | present | a stranger *not said here* | a flag | | the kitchen | | | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent flag=Theme in kitchen=Destination | | 4 | **announce** *speech: other* | present | a stranger *not said here* | | | | | | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **discover** *in a quote* | present · perfect | stranger | flag | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | | 6 | **eat** | present · progressive | your family | dinner | | | | | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dinner=Patient | | 7 | **be** | present | that | | | | | | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 8 | **put** | present | many teachers | a question mark | | | now | | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent mark=Goal | | 9 | **discover** *in a quote* | past | Columbus | America | | | | | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent america=Topic | | 10 | **live** | past | millions of people | | | there | | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 11 | **is a** | past | 1492 | a arrival | | | | for millions *= million* | tree rules | 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. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:history:076-when-civilizations-meet-seen-from-both-sides.lesson:0`. **The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence. 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