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title: That came on by itself, didn't it? — The parents walk in: how good parents react · tree and pragmatics
description: That came on by itself, didn't it? Who acts: That. A sentence of the lesson «The parents walk in: how good parents react» of the adult life course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# The parents walk in: how good parents react, sentence 8

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That came on by itself, didn't it?

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**Who acts:** That · **What happens:** come on

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This is a sentence of the lesson «The parents walk in: how good parents react» of the adult life 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 (That), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:adult-life:059-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react.lesson:8
# text = That came on by itself, didn't it?
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = adult-life
# lesson = 059-the-parents-walk-in-how-good-parents-react.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): no change
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
2	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	RB	_	2	compound:prt	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
8	n't	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
10	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come on** | past | That |  |  |  |  | by trouble | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by itself=Location |

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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.

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**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): no change. **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.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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