--- title: Robots and programs do exactly what the steps say, not what you mean… — Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Bebras puzzle… · tree and pragmatics description: Robots and programs do exactly what the steps say, not what you meant, so a step in the wrong order or a fuzzy word like "somewhere nice" is a bug waiting to happen. Who acts: Robots, steps, you, step. 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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 (Robots, steps, you, step), 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:4 # text = Robots and programs do exactly what the steps say, not what you meant, so a step in the wrong order or a fuzzy word like "somewhere nice" is a bug waiting to happen. # 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, R8-pos-agree ×1 1 Robots robot NOUN NNS Number=Plur 4 nsubj _ _ 2 and and CCONJ CC _ 3 cc _ _ 3 programs program NOUN NNS Number=Plur 1 conj _ _ 4 do do VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 5 exactly exactly ADV RB _ 4 advmod _ _ 6 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 obj _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 nsubj _ _ 9 say say VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 4 ccomp _ _ 10 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 11 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 12 advmod _ _ 12 what what PRON WP PronType=Int 9 parataxis _ _ 13 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 14 nsubj _ _ 14 meant mean VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 12 acl:relcl _ _ 15 , , PUNCT , _ 18 punct _ _ 16 so so ADV RB _ 34 advmod _ _ 17 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 step step NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 nsubj _ _ 19 in in ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 wrong wrong ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 order order NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 nmod _ _ 23 or or CCONJ CC _ 26 cc _ _ 24 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 25 fuzzy fuzzy ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 amod _ _ 26 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 18 conj _ Agree=R5-strong|Haiku=22:conj 27 like like ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 28 " " PUNCT `` _ 30 punct _ _ 29 somewhere somewhere ADV RB PronType=Ind 30 advmod _ _ 30 nice nice ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 nmod _ _ 31 " " PUNCT '' _ 30 punct _ Agree=R8-pos-agree|Haiku=30:punct|HaikuPos=PUNCT:``:_ 32 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 34 cop _ _ 33 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 34 bug bug NOUN NN Number=Sing 4 parataxis _ _ 35 waiting wait VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 acl _ _ 36 to to PART TO _ 37 mark _ _ 37 happen happen VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 35 xcomp _ _ 38 . . PUNCT . _ 4 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} - form: statement - act: assert - voice: narrator - polarity: neg - teacher: changed act=assert, polarity=neg, voice=narrator | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **do** | present | Robots and programs | | | | | exactly *property* | tree rules | | 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | present | the steps | | | | | | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent what=Topic | | 3 | **mean** | past | you | | | | | | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **is a** | present | a step in the wrong order or a fuzzy word like nice | a bug | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **wait** | gerund | a bug *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **happen** | to-infinitive | a bug *not said here* | | | | | | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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:4`. **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, 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…, 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine/2/) - next →: [Olympiad: thinking like a machine, Beb…, 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine/5/) - ↑ back to [the lesson](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/31-olympiad-thinking-like-a-machine/)