Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Bebras puzzles ★★★, sentence 5
In "guess my number" with yes-or-no answers, halving each time is best: 4 questions always find a number from 1 to 16, 5 from 1 to 32, and 7 from 1 to 100.
Who acts: halving, 4 questions · What happens: guess, halve, be, find · To what, where: number, 1
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 (halving, 4 questions), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 guess | mark |
| 2 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 guess | punct |
| 3 | guess | guess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 best | obl |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 number | nmod:poss |
| 5 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 guess | obj |
| 6 | " | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 guess | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 answers | case |
| 8 | yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 13 answers | discourse |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 yes | punct |
| 10 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 answers | cc |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 or | punct |
| 12 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 answers | det |
| 13 | answers | answer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 guess | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 halving | punct |
| 15 | halving | halve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 19 best | csubj |
| 16 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 time | det |
| 17 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 halving | obj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 best | cop |
| 19 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | root | root |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 22 questions | punct |
| 21 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 22 questions | nummod |
| 22 | questions | question | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 find | nsubj |
| 23 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 24 find | advmod |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 best | parataxis |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 number | det |
| 26 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 find | obj |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 28 1 | case |
| 28 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 number | nmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 16 | case |
| 30 | 16 | 16 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 1 | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 5 | punct |
| 32 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 1 | conj |
| 33 | from | from | ADP | _ | 36 32 | case |
| 34 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 5 | nmod |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 32 | case |
| 36 | 32 | 32 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 5 | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 7 | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 7 | cc |
| 39 | 7 | 7 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 32 5 | flat |
| 40 | from | from | ADP | _ | 41 1 | case |
| 41 | 1 | 1 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 28 1 | flat |
| 42 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 100 | case |
| 43 | 100 | 100 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 41 1 | nmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 best | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=assert
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | guess in a quote | infinitive | my number | with no answers | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Theme | ||||
| 2 | halve | gerund | time | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | is | present | halving | good property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find | present | 4 questions | a number | 1 to 16 | always property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent number=Theme from 1=Source |
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:5.
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, R6-punct-agree ×1, 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.
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