--- title: A robot follows its steps exactly; a mistake in the steps is called… — Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Bebras puzzle… · tree and pragmatics description: A robot follows its steps exactly; a mistake in the steps is called a bug, and finding and fixing it is called debugging. Who acts: robot, answer. 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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 (robot, answer), 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:11 # text = A robot follows its steps exactly; a mistake in the steps is called a bug, and finding and fixing it is called debugging. # 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): R6-punct-agree ×1, R7-rel-agree ×1, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 A a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 robot robot NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 follows follow VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ _ 6 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 3 advmod _ _ 7 ; ; PUNCT : _ 14 punct _ _ 8 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 9 det _ _ 9 mistake mistake NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nsubj:pass _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 12 det _ _ 12 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nmod _ _ 13 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 14 aux:pass _ _ 14 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 parataxis _ Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=3:conj 15 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 bug bug NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 xcomp _ _ 17 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ Agree=R6-punct-agree|Haiku=19:punct 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 19 cc _ _ 19 finding find VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 24 nsubj:pass _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 21 cc _ _ 21 fixing fix VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 19 conj _ _ 22 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 21 obj _ _ 23 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 24 aux:pass _ _ 24 called call VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 14 conj _ _ 25 debugging debug NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 xcomp _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=24:xcomp|HaikuPos=VERB:VBG:VerbForm=Ger 26 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} No stored speech act for this sentence. | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | present | a robot | answer's steps | | | | exactly *property* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | | 2 | **call** | present · passive | | a mistake in the steps | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 3 | **find** | gerund | | | | | | | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **fix** | gerund | | answer | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent it=Patient | | 5 | **call** | present · passive | | debugging | | | | | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | | 6 | **step** | | answer | | | | | | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent | 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:11`. **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): 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…, 10](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine/10/) - next →: [Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Beb…, 12](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine/12/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine/)