--- title: Computers do not guess like people do: they follow exact steps, coun… — Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Bebras puzzle… · tree and pragmatics description: Computers do not guess like people do: they follow exact steps, count what they have seen and ask yes-or-no questions, and Bebras puzzles let you think the same way. Who acts: Computers, people, Bebras puzzles, you. 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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 (Computers, people, Bebras puzzles, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = school:ai:031-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine.lesson:0 # text = Computers do not guess like people do: they follow exact steps, count what they have seen and ask yes-or-no questions, and Bebras puzzles let you think the same way. # source = school lesson (ours) # course = ai # lesson = 031-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine.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 ×1, R7-rel-agree ×2 1 Computers computer NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 do do AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 aux _ _ 3 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 4 advmod _ _ 4 guess guess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 5 like like SCONJ IN _ 7 mark _ _ 6 people people NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 nsubj _ _ 7 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 advcl _ _ 8 : : PUNCT : _ 10 punct _ _ 9 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 follow follow VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:advcl 11 exact exact ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 12 amod _ _ 12 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 10 obj _ _ 13 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 14 count count VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 10 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=4:conj|HaikuPos=VERB:VB:VerbForm=Inf 15 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 14 obj _ _ 16 they they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 18 nsubj _ _ 17 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 18 aux _ _ 18 seen see VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 15 acl:relcl _ _ 19 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 20 ask ask VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 14 advcl _ _ 21 yes yes INTJ UH Polarity=Pos 20 discourse _ _ 22 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 21 punct _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 - - PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 25 no no DET DT PronType=Neg 26 det _ _ 26 questions question NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ _ 27 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 31 cc _ _ 29 Bebras Bebras PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 compound _ _ 30 puzzles puzzle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 nsubj _ _ 31 let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 4 conj _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:parataxis 32 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 31 obj _ _ 33 think think VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 31 xcomp _ _ 34 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 35 same same ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 36 way way NOUN NN Number=Sing 33 obj _ _ 37 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **not** **guess** | present · do-support | Computers | | | | | | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | | 2 | **do** | present | people | | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 3 | **follow** | present | people | exact steps | | | | | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | | 4 | **count** | present | people *not said here* | | | | | | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Theme | | 5 | **see** | present · perfect | people | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 6 | **ask** *speech: ask* | infinitive | people *not said here* | no questions | | | | | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Recipient | | 7 | **let** | infinitive | Bebras puzzles | you | | | | | tree rules | | 8 | **think** *speech: other* | infinitive | you *not said here* | the same way | | | | | vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot way=Theme | 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:ai:031-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine.lesson:0`. **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 ×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. See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Who you are: what you will do with wha…, 24](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/30-who-you-are-what-you-will-do/24/) - next →: [Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Beb…, 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine/1/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine/)