public Event getHistory(TrainerEvent trainerEvent, int backOffLevel) {
    ModifierEvent modEvent = (ModifierEvent) trainerEvent;

    if (Language.treebank().isBaseNP(modEvent.parent()))
      return getBaseNPHistory(modEvent, backOffLevel);

    Symbol side = Constants.sideToSym(modEvent.side());

    MutableEvent hist = historiesWithSubcats[backOffLevel];

    hist.clear();
    Symbol verbInterveningSym = Constants.booleanToSym(modEvent.verbIntervening());
    Symbol mappedPrevModSym = NTMapper.map(modEvent.previousMods().symbolAt(0));
    Symbol parent = Language.training().removeArgAugmentation(modEvent.parent());

    switch (backOffLevel) {
      case 0:
        // for p(M(t)_i | P, H, w, t, verbIntervening, map(M_i-1), subcat, side)
        hist.add(0, parent);
        hist.add(0, Language.training().removeGapAugmentation(modEvent.head()));
        hist.add(0, modEvent.headWord().word());
        hist.add(0, modEvent.headWord().tag());
        hist.add(0, verbInterveningSym);
        hist.add(0, mappedPrevModSym);
        hist.add(1, modEvent.subcat());
        hist.add(0, side);
        break;
      case 1:
        // for p(M(t)_i | P, H, t, verbIntervening, map(M_i-1), subcat, side)
        hist.add(0, parent);
        hist.add(0, Language.training().removeGapAugmentation(modEvent.head()));
        hist.add(0, modEvent.headWord().tag());
        hist.add(0, verbInterveningSym);
        hist.add(0, mappedPrevModSym);
        hist.add(1, modEvent.subcat());
        hist.add(0, side);
        break;
      case 2:
        // for p(M(t)_i | P, H, verbIntervening, map(M_i-1), subcat, side)
        hist.add(0, parent);
        hist.add(0, Language.training().removeGapAugmentation(modEvent.head()));
        hist.add(0, verbInterveningSym);
        hist.add(0, mappedPrevModSym);
        hist.add(1, modEvent.subcat());
        hist.add(0, side);
        break;
      case 3:
        // for p(M(t)_i | P, subcat)
        hist.add(0, parent);
        hist.add(1, modEvent.subcat());
        break;
    }
    return hist;
  }