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title: Robo faces east. It does: turn left, turn left, turn right. Which wa… — Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Beb… · tree and pragmatics
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# Test 3 · ★★★ · Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Bebras puzzles ★★★

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Robo faces east. It does: turn left, turn left, turn right. Which way does it face now?

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 2 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** Robo, It, way · **What happens:** face, turn

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This is test 3 · ★★★ of lesson 31 «Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Bebras puzzles ★★★» of the AI course of Mova's primary school. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/ai/31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine/#t3).

## The question {#question}

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*Sentence 1:* Robo faces east.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine:t3:1
# text = Robo faces east.
1	Robo	Robo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	faces	face	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	east	east	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face** | present | Robo |  |  |  |  | east *property* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |

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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.

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*Sentence 2:* It does: turn left, turn left, turn right.

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine:t3:2
# text = It does: turn left, turn left, turn right.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	4	punct	_	_
4	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	left	left	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
8	left	left	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	turn	turn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
11	right	right	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **turn** | present · do-support | It |  |  |  |  | left *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **turn** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | left *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **turn** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | right *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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*Sentence 3:* Which way does it face now?

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine:t3:3
# text = Which way does it face now?
1	Which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	face	face	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **face** | present · do-support | which way |  |  |  | now |  | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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west

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine:t3:o1:1
# text = west
1	west	west	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 · ✓ the right answer {#o2}

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north

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine:t3:o2:1
# text = north
1	north	north	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 {#o3}

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south

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine:t3:o3:1
# text = south
1	south	south	ADV	RB	_	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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east

```conllu
# sent_id = question:ai:31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine:t3:o4:1
# text = east
1	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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