Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning, sentence 10

To concede is to accept that you lost; it shows supporters the election was fair and lets power pass peacefully to the winner.

Who acts: you, it, election · What happens: concede, be, lose, show, let, pass · To what, where: supporters, winner · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of the lesson «Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winning» of the politics 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, it, election), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	To	to	PART	_	2 concede	mark
2	concede	concede	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 accept	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 accept	cop
4	to	to	PART	_	5 accept	mark
5	accept	accept	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
6	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 lost	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 lost	nsubj
8	lost	lose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 accept	ccomp
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	11 shows	punct
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 shows	nsubj
11	shows	show	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 accept	conj
12	supporters	supporter	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 shows	iobj
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 election	det
14	election	election	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 fair	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 fair	cop
16	fair	fair	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 shows	ccomp
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 lets	cc
18	lets	let	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 shows	conj
19	power	power	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pass	compound
20	pass	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 lets	xcomp
21	peacefully	peacefully	ADV	_	20 pass	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	24 winner	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 winner	det
24	winner	winner	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 pass	obl
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 accept	punct

Pragmatics

No stored speech act for this sentence.

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	concede	to-infinitive					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
2	is	present				accept property	tree rules
3	lose	past	you				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	show	present	it	supporters			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent supporter=Recipient
5	is	past	the election			fair property	tree rules
6	let	present					tree rules
7	pass	infinitive			the winner	peacefully property	vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to winner=Initial_Location

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, 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:politics:002-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning.lesson:10.

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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2. 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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