--- title: To concede is to accept that you lost; it shows supporters the elect… — Elections and voting: ballots, counting and winn… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 (you, it, election), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:politics:002-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning.lesson:10 # text = To concede is to accept that you lost; it shows supporters the election was fair and lets power pass peacefully to the winner. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = politics # lesson = 002-elections-and-voting-ballots-counting-and-winning.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 ×3, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 To to PART TO _ 2 mark _ _ 2 concede concede VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 5 nsubj _ _ 3 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 cop _ _ 4 to to PART TO _ 5 mark _ _ 5 accept accept VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 6 that that SCONJ IN _ 8 mark _ _ 7 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 8 nsubj _ _ 8 lost lose VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 5 ccomp _ _ 9 ; ; PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 10 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 11 nsubj _ _ 11 shows show VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 5 conj _ _ 12 supporters supporter NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 iobj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=11:obj 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 election election NOUN NN Number=Sing 16 nsubj _ _ 15 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 cop _ _ 16 fair fair ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 ccomp _ _ 17 and and CCONJ CC _ 18 cc _ _ 18 lets let VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=16:conj 19 power power NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 pass pass VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 18 xcomp _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=18:obj|HaikuPos=NOUN:NN:Number=Sing 21 peacefully peacefully ADV RB _ 20 advmod _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=24:advmod 22 to to ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 winner winner NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=18:obl 25 . . 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 | **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](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: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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