--- title: Gonna is the spoken form of "going to"; "I was going to" shows a pas… — Tenses: past, present and future · tree and pragmatics description: Gonna is the spoken form of "going to"; "I was going to" shows a past plan that didn't happen; write "going to" in formal work. Who acts: Gonna, spoken form, historic present, past plan. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gonna, spoken form, historic present, past plan), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:language:008-tenses-past-present-future.lesson:8 # text = Gonna is the spoken form of "going to"; "I was going to" shows a past plan that didn't happen; write "going to" in formal work. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = language # lesson = 008-tenses-past-present-future.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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Gonna Gonna PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 nsubj _ _ 2 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 3 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 4 spoken speak VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 5 amod _ _ 5 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 6 of of SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=8:case|HaikuPos=ADP:IN:_ 7 " " PUNCT `` _ 8 punct _ _ 8 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 5 acl _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=5:nmod 9 to to PART TO _ 8 flat _ _ 10 " " PUNCT '' _ 8 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=9:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 11 ; ; PUNCT : _ 15 punct _ _ 12 " " PUNCT `` _ 15 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=15:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:'':_ 13 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 15 nsubj _ _ 14 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 15 aux _ _ 15 going go VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 18 nsubj _ _ 16 to to PART TO _ 15 flat _ _ 17 " " PUNCT '' _ 15 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=18:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 18 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 parataxis _ _ 19 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 20 past past ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 21 amod _ _ 21 plan plan NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 obj _ _ 22 that that PRON WDT PronType=Rel 25 nsubj _ _ 23 did do AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 25 aux _ _ 24 n't not PART RB Polarity=Neg 25 advmod _ _ 25 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 21 acl:relcl _ _ 26 ; ; PUNCT : _ 27 punct _ _ 27 write write VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 parataxis _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 29 punct _ _ 29 going go VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 27 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=27:obj 30 to to PART TO _ 29 flat _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 29 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=34:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 32 in in ADP IN _ 34 case _ _ 33 formal formal ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 34 amod _ _ 34 work work NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 obl _ _ 35 . . PUNCT . _ 5 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle | | | | | | | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **is a** | present | Gonna | the spoken form | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **go** *in a quote* | gerund | the spoken form *not said here* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 4 | **go** *in a quote* | past · progressive | the historic present *= present* | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **show** | present | | a past plan | | | | | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent plan=Recipient | | 6 | **not** **happen** | past · do-support | a past plan | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 7 | **write** | infinitive | | | | formal work | | | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | | 8 | **go** *in a quote* | gerund | | | | | | | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | 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:language:008-tenses-past-present-future.lesson:8`. **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): R6-punct-agree ×3, R7-rel-agree ×3, R8-pos-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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Tenses: past, present and future, 6](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/8-tenses-past-present-future/6/) - next →: [Tenses: past, present and future, 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/8-tenses-past-present-future/9/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/language/8-tenses-past-present-future/)