Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Bebras puzzles ★★★, sentence 1
Picture a game of "guess my number" from 1 to 16: the smart first question is "Is it more than 8?", because whatever the answer, half the numbers are gone at once.
Who acts: you, smart first question · What happens: picture, guess, be · To what, where: game, number, 1, numbers · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Bebras puzzles ★★★» of the ai 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, smart first question), 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 | Picture | picture | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 game | det |
| 3 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Picture | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 guess | case |
| 5 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 guess | punct |
| 6 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 game | nmod |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 number | nmod:poss |
| 8 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 guess | obj |
| 9 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 guess | punct |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 1 | case |
| 11 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 6 guess | obl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 16 | case |
| 13 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 11 1 | nmod |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 question | det |
| 16 | smart | smart | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 question | amod |
| 17 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 18 question | amod |
| 18 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 more | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 more | cop |
| 20 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 more | punct |
| 21 | Is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 more | cop |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 more | nsubj |
| 23 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 1 Picture | parataxis |
| 24 | than | than | ADP | _ | 25 8 | case |
| 25 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 23 more | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
| 27 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 gone | punct |
| 29 | because | because | SCONJ | ExtPos=ADP | 38 gone | mark |
| 30 | whatever | whatever | DET | PronType=Rel | 38 gone | advcl |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 answer | det |
| 32 | answer | answer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 whatever | nsubj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 gone | punct |
| 34 | half | half | DET | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac PronType=Ind | 36 numbers | det:predet |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 numbers | det |
| 36 | numbers | number | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 gone | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 gone | cop |
| 38 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Picture | advcl |
| 39 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 once | case |
| 40 | once | once | ADV | _ | 38 gone | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Picture | punct |
Pragmatics
No stored speech act for this sentence.
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | picture | imperative | you not said here | a game | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent game=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | guess in a quote | infinitive | my number | 1 to 16 | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | the smart first question | than 8; more property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present · passive | half numbers | gone property | tree rules |
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:ai:031-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine.lesson:1.
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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, 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.
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