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title: Bots read text in chunks, not letter by letter, and it was reported… — Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Bebras puzzle… · tree and pragmatics
description: Bots read text in chunks, not letter by letter, and it was reported that some of them miscounted the r's in "strawberry", which has three. Who acts: Bots, strawberry, letter. A sentence of the lesson «Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Bebras puzzles ★★★» of the ai course of Mova's primary school wi
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# Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Bebras puzzles ★★★, sentence 14

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Bots read text in chunks, not letter by letter, and it was reported that some of them miscounted the r's in "strawberry", which has three.

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**Who acts:** Bots, strawberry, letter · **What happens:** read, report, miscount, have, letter · **To what, where:** text, chunks, some, three

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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 (Bots, strawberry, letter), 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:14
# text = Bots read text in chunks, not letter by letter, and it was reported that some of them miscounted the r's in "strawberry", which has three.
# 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): R8-pos-agree ×1
1	Bots	bot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	read	read	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=0:root|HaikuPos=VERB:VBP:Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin
3	text	text	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	chunks	chunk	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	8	advmod	_	_
8	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	reported	report	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
16	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nmod	_	_
20	miscounted	miscount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	ccomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	r	r	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	's	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	"	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	_
26	strawberry	strawberry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
27	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	26	punct	_	_
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	_
31	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	obj	_	_
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | past | Bots | text |  | chunks and letter by letter |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent text=Topic |
| 2 | **report** | past · passive |  | text |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **miscount** | participle · passive |  | some |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **have** | present | strawberry | three |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent three=Patient |
| 5 | **letter** |  | letter |  |  |  |  |  | nom letter «communication transitive»: by=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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**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:14`.

**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): 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/).

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