Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Bebras puzzles ★★★, sentence 10

A sorting machine that asks yes-or-no questions one after another, each answer choosing the next question, is called a decision tree.

Who acts: sorting machine, answer · What happens: ask, choose, call · To what, where: questions, next question, sorting machine · 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 (sorting machine, answer), 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 machine	det
2	sorting	sorting	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 machine	compound
3	machine	machine	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 called	nsubj:pass
4	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	5 asks	nsubj
5	asks	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 machine	acl:relcl
6	yes	yes	INTJ	Polarity=Pos	11 questions	discourse
7	-	-	PUNCT	_	6 yes	punct
8	or	or	CCONJ	_	11 questions	cc
9	-	-	PUNCT	_	8 or	punct
10	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	11 questions	det
11	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 asks	obj
12	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	11 questions	flat
13	after	after	ADP	_	14 another	case
14	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	12 one	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 choosing	punct
16	each	each	DET	PronType=Tot	17 answer	det
17	answer	answer	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 choosing	nsubj
18	choosing	choose	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 asks	advcl
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 question	det
20	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 question	amod
21	question	question	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 choosing	obj
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 called	punct
23	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 called	aux:pass
24	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
25	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 tree	det
26	decision	decision	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 tree	compound
27	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 called	xcomp
28	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 called	punct

Pragmatics

form: statement
act: assert
voice: narrator
polarity: none
teacher: changed act=assert

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	ask speech: ask	present	a sorting machine	no questions	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient
2	choose	gerund	each answer	the next question	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent question=Theme
3	call	present · passive		a sorting machine	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient

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: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 ×1, R7-rel-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.

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