--- title: Picture a game of "guess my number" from 1 to 16: the smart first qu… — Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Bebras puzzle… · tree and pragmatics description: 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. 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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 (you, smart first question), 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:1 # text = 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. # 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 ×2, R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Picture picture VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 game game NOUN NN Number=Sing 1 obj _ _ 4 of of ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 " " PUNCT `` _ 6 punct _ _ 6 guess guess VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 nmod _ _ 7 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 8 nmod:poss _ _ 8 number number NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 obj _ _ 9 " " PUNCT '' _ 6 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=8:punct 10 from from ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 11 1 1 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 6 obl _ _ 12 to to ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 16 16 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 11 nmod _ _ 14 : : PUNCT : _ 1 punct _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 16 smart smart ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 17 first first ADJ JJ Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord 18 amod _ _ 18 question question NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nsubj _ _ 19 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 20 " " PUNCT `` _ 23 punct _ _ 21 Is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 23 cop _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 23 nsubj _ _ 23 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 1 parataxis _ _ 24 than than ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 8 8 NUM CD NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card 23 obl _ _ 26 ? ? PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ 27 " " PUNCT '' _ 1 punct _ _ 28 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 29 because because SCONJ IN ExtPos=ADP 38 mark _ _ 30 whatever whatever DET WDT PronType=Rel 38 advcl _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=32:det 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 answer answer NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=38:nsubj 33 , , PUNCT , _ 38 punct _ _ 34 half half DET PDT NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind 36 det:predet _ _ 35 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 36 det _ _ 36 numbers number NOUN NNS Number=Plur 38 nsubj:pass _ _ 37 are be AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 38 cop _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=38:aux:pass 38 gone gone ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 1 advcl _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=1:advcl|HaikuPos=VERB:VBN:Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 39 at at ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 once once ADV RB _ 38 obl _ _ 41 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#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](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: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](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/). - ← previous: [Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Beb…, 0](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine/0/) - next →: [Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Beb…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine/2/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine/)