--- title: Empires look different from each side: one grandad remembers railway… — When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and… · tree and pragmatics description: Empires look different from each side: one grandad remembers railways, another remembers famines, and historians still argue how to weigh the good and the harm; both stories can be partly true at once. Who acts: Empires, one grandad, another, historians. A sentence of the lesson «When civilizations --- [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/2/) [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/) / 2 # When civilizations meet: conquest, colonies and freedom, seen from both sides, sentence 2 Empires look different from each side: one grandad remembers railways, another remembers famines, and historians still argue how to weigh the good and the harm; both stories can be partly true at once. **Who acts:** Empires, one grandad, another, historians, stories · **What happens:** look, remember, argue, weigh, be · **To what, where:** railways, famines, good 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 (Empires, one grandad, another, historians), 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:2 # text = Empires look different from each side: one grandad remembers railways, another remembers famines, and historians still argue how to weigh the good and the harm; both stories can be partly true at once. # 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): R5-strong ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1 1 Empires empire NOUN NNS Number=Plur 2 nsubj _ _ 2 look look VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 different different ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 xcomp _ _ 4 from from ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 6 det _ _ 6 side side NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=3:obl 7 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 8 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 grandad grandad NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 nsubj _ _ 10 remembers remember VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=2:conj 11 railways railway NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 another another DET DT PronType=Ind 14 nsubj _ _ 14 remembers remember VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ _ 15 famines famine NOUN NNS Number=Plur 14 obj _ _ 16 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 18 historians historian NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 nsubj _ _ 19 still still ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ _ 20 argue argue VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 2 parataxis _ _ 21 how how ADV WRB PronType=Int 23 advmod _ _ 22 to to PART TO _ 23 mark _ _ 23 weigh weigh VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 good good ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 23 obj _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 harm harm NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 conj _ _ 29 ; ; PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 30 both both DET DT PronType=Tot 31 det _ _ 31 stories story NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 nsubj _ _ 32 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 33 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 35 cop _ _ 34 partly partly ADV RB _ 35 advmod _ _ 35 true true ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 2 conj _ _ 36 at at ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 once once ADV RB NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult 35 obl _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **look** | present | Empires | | | | | from each side; different *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from side=Theme | | 2 | **remember** | present | one grandad | railways | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent railway=Theme | | 3 | **remember** | present | another | famines | | | | | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent famine=Theme | | 4 | **argue** *speech: disagree* | present | historians | | | | still | | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 5 | **weigh** | to-infinitive | historians *not said here* | the good and the harm | | | | | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme good=Value | | 6 | **is** | can | both stories | | | | | partly, true *property* | 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:2`. **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): R5-strong ×1, 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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